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About Anthony M. Cognetti
Anthony M. Cognetti is a trial attorney at Gilman & Bedigian focusing on complex medical malpractice and catastrophic injury cases. Before joining the firm, he worked at two prominent regional defense firms in Philadelphia representing corporations and insurance companies in personal injury, automobile accidents, wrongful death, and premises liability matters. That defense background gives him a detailed understanding of how the opposing side builds, assesses, and values a case. He holds a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Health Services from Saint Joseph's University, where he competed on the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse team and was a member of the Phi Sigma Pi Honors Fraternity.
He earned his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Land and Development and was a recipient of the Dean Citation Award. After graduation he clerked for the Honorable Christopher L. Panos, Circuit Court for Baltimore City. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Justinian Society.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Gilman & Bedigian
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A Philadelphia jury returned a $182.7 million verdict, later reaching $207.6 million with interest and upheld through the Pennsylvania Superior Court in July 2025, against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for a 45-minute delay in performing a C-section on a mother with a known uterine infection, leaving her child with permanent cerebral palsy.
A Philadelphia jury awarded $108.6 million to a boy who suffered permanent brain damage during a December 2018 forceps delivery at Einstein Medical Center, in a case tried by Gilman & Bedigian against Jefferson Health. Jefferson has vowed to appeal, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is already reviewing the same liability doctrines in the firm's earlier $183 million Penn Medicine verdict, so the award is far from final.
A Baltimore City jury awarded $55 million after Johns Hopkins Hospital delayed an emergency cesarean section for more than two hours following a home-birth transfer, leaving infant Enzo Martinez with permanent cerebral palsy and profound neurological injuries.
A Baltimore County jury found that University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center performed an unjustified emergency cesarean section on a mother showing no confirmed signs of labor, delivering her son at 23 weeks and causing severe brain damage that will require lifelong care.
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