About Charles Gilman
Charles A. Gilman is the managing partner and co-founder of Gilman & Bedigian, LLC. He co-founded the firm with H. Briggs Bedigian to pursue cases for injured clients across the Mid-Atlantic region. His practice covers medical malpractice, car accidents, nursing home negligence and abuse, dog bites, slip and fall accidents, and other personal injury matters. He has particular experience with catastrophic injury cases involving cerebral palsy, pediatric brain injury, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, traumatic brain injuries, and spinal cord injuries.
He has also represented clients in class action lawsuits and shareholder derivative claims, and served as general counsel to corporations in regulatory and litigation matters. His recoveries for injured clients exceed $200 million in jury verdicts and settlements. He graduated cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law and holds a B.S. in Finance from Towson University.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Gilman & Bedigian
These results are credited to Gilman & Bedigian. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
