Carol Nelson Shepherd
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About Carol Nelson Shepherd
Carol Nelson Shepherd is a founding partner of Feldman Shepherd who has devoted her legal career to helping those catastrophically injured by medical malpractice. For 40 years, she has vigorously advocated for clients in claims against healthcare providers arising from obstetric and childbirth injuries, delayed cancer diagnoses, improperly performed surgeries, and other types of substandard medical care. Carol has won many multimillion-dollar recoveries in medical malpractice cases.
Each year since 2004, she has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Super Lawyers in Pennsylvania, a Top 100 Super Lawyer in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, and a Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Super Lawyer. In 2015, Best Lawyers in America designated her Lawyer of the Year in Medical Malpractice Law. Carol earned her J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law and her B.A. from Arizona State University.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig
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A $160 million settlement, the largest pre-verdict settlement in Pennsylvania court history, resolved claims against U-Haul after an overfilled propane tank exploded at a North Philadelphia food truck, killing a mother and her teenage daughter and severely burning three others.
A Philadelphia jury found Pottstown Memorial Medical Center liable for a newborn's severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy after the hospital's outdated, unmaintained ultrasound equipment led a physician to incorrectly declare the baby dead, delaying an emergency cesarean section by 81 minutes.
Feldman Shepherd secured a combined $50 million settlement from IKEA on behalf of three families whose toddler sons were fatally crushed by MALM dressers, a result that preceded a nationwide recall of approximately 29 million chests and dressers.
Alan Feldman of Feldman Shepherd secured a $46 million settlement against IKEA on behalf of the family of a 2-year-old boy crushed by a MALM dresser in California, reported at the time as the largest child wrongful-death settlement in U.S. history.
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