About Meaghan Geraghty
Meaghan A. Geraghty joined Elk & Elk in 2025 as both a licensed attorney and a Registered Nurse, giving her a clinical foundation that directly informs her medical malpractice and personal injury work. A native of Northeast Ohio, Meaghan earned her undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University (cum laude) and a Fulbright Fellowship to Hong Kong, then earned a nursing degree from Kent State University. She worked as a nurse in top local hospitals and as a travel nurse before entering law, earning her J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2018.
In law school she was named Outstanding Clinical Student and received the Pat Gies Memorial Award for professional excellence. She has handled complex medical malpractice and nursing home cases in Nebraska and Ohio and has served as a Guardian ad Litem. She is a member of the Order of the Barristers.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Elk & Elk Co Ltd
These results are credited to Elk & Elk Co Ltd. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Cuyahoga County jury awarded $39 million to the widow of a highway paving inspector struck and killed on Interstate 271 after the paving contractor failed to follow its court-approved safety plan.
A Fulton County jury awarded $2,761,228 to the widow and estate of James Worman after a fabricated axle shaft sold by Hart's Machine Service fractured beneath the couple's 1973 Honda trike, killing James and severely injuring his wife Pamela.
A Hamilton County, Ohio, jury awarded $2,063,255.51 to the family of Judy Helen Collins, 73, who died in November 2019 after complications of a hiatal hernia repair. Jurors found surgeon Robert Bradley, MD, liable for medical malpractice and wrongful death after he did not obtain a CT scan a radiologist had recommended and did not recognize signs of re-herniation. The same jury cleared the radiologist and his imaging group. The verdict came on Oct. 24, 2024, after a two-week trial.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
