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About Patrick Cullan
Patrick (Pat) Cullan is a medical doctor and lawyer at Cullan & Cullan LLC, licensed to practice in Nebraska and California. He graduated cum laude from Creighton Preparatory School in 1992, earned a B.A. cum laude from Santa Clara University in 1996, and received his J.D. cum laude from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1999. He also trained in obstetrics at Waterford Regional Hospital and the Rotunda in Ireland, studied at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, and earned the Grosses Deutsches Sprachdiplom from the Goethe Institute in Germany.
Cullan focuses his practice on birth injury and medical malpractice cases, along with bicycle accidents, burn injuries, car accidents, catastrophic injuries, motorcycle accidents, nursing home abuse, pedestrian accidents, premises liability, product liability, train accidents, truck accidents, and wrongful death. He tried a $6.7 million verdict alongside his father, Dr. Dan Cullan, on behalf of a child who sustained serious injuries in a swimming pool accident, and has worked with his brother, Dr. Joe Cullan, to recover tens of millions of dollars for clients in birth injury, truck accident, and wrongful death cases. Cullan is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, has been named to Nebraska's Top 100 Trial Lawyers list, has been recognized as a Super Lawyer, and was named to the National Trial Lawyers' Top 40 Under 40.
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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