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About E. Merritt Lentz
E. Merritt Lentz is a Philadelphia-based trial lawyer who pursues catastrophic birth injury, medical malpractice, product liability, workplace accidents, dram shop liability, and dangerous premises cases. He focuses on children who suffered hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and other birth injuries resulting in cerebral palsy, as well as cases involving defective medical devices such as vacuums and forceps. He also represents victims of industrial accidents and takes on cases against the personal emergency response system (PERS) industry for failures that result in subscriber harm. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2002, graduating in the top 7% of his class (Heuisler Honor Society), and his B.A. from Randolph-Macon College in 1999 with majors in Economics and Business. His notable verdicts include a $183 million jury verdict in Philadelphia, the largest medical malpractice verdict in Pennsylvania history, and a $106 million verdict, the second-largest in that state.
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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