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About Joseph Cullan
Joseph (Joe) Cullan is a trial lawyer and medical doctor at Cullan & Cullan LLC, admitted to practice in Arizona, Nebraska, California, Missouri, and Kansas. He graduated cum laude from Creighton Preparatory School in 1993, earned a B.A. cum laude from Santa Clara University in 1997, and received his J.D. cum laude from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2000. He trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, completed obstetrical training at Ireland's National Maternity Hospital, and received obstetrics and gynecological training at the Rotunda Hospital.
Cullan's practice focuses on medical malpractice and birth injury cases, along with catastrophic injuries, bicycle accidents, burn injuries, car accidents, motorcycle accidents, nursing home abuse, pedestrian accidents, premises liability, product liability, train accidents, truck accidents, and wrongful death. He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, an organization whose membership is limited to the top 100 trial lawyers in the United States, and has been named to Nebraska's Top 100 Trial Lawyers list by the National Trial Lawyers. He is also a Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum member and has recovered tens of millions of dollars on behalf of his clients in medical malpractice and personal injury litigation.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Jackson County jury awarded a Kansas City-area family $25.4 million after finding an OB-GYN's improper supervision and excessive Pitocin use during delivery caused their daughter's cerebral palsy, though the verdict was reduced to a final judgment of $20,824,653 under Missouri's statutory cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases.
Billy Moyle, 24, was driving behind a Mack concrete truck on US Highway 75 near Nebraska City on Halloween 2012. The truck moved into the left turn lane and then turned right across his path, running his pickup off the road. He suffered a broken vertebra and a partially severed spinal cord.
At about eleven months old, a child suffered brain trauma in an accidental fall at day care, was taken to a hospital in Omaha and discharged without adequate management of her seizures. The seizures continued and caused permanent brain damage. The jury awarded $26.1 million. The statutory cap reduced it to $2.25 million.
A child was born at Bellevue Medical Center in November 2012 after a long labour and was not breathing at birth. She survived with severe brain damage and by trial could not walk or talk and had limited vision. A federal jury awarded $17 million. The statutory cap reduced it to $1.75 million and the Eighth Circuit affirmed.
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