H. Briggs Bedigian
About H. Briggs Bedigian
H. Briggs Bedigian is a trial lawyer dedicated to representing victims of medical malpractice and catastrophic personal injuries nationwide. He co-founded Gilman & Bedigian, LLC with the goal of providing the best legal representation to those most in need. Briggs has tried more than 70 cases to verdict, including winning the largest medical malpractice verdict in Pennsylvania history, a $182 million judgment on behalf of a catastrophically injured child, and the second-largest medical malpractice verdict in Maryland history at $55 million. He routinely achieves multimillion-dollar pre-trial settlements, many in excess of eight figures. He earned his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law, graduating in the top 10% of his class, and his B.A. from Ithaca College, where he was an All-American football player and team captain. He was inducted into the Inner Circle of Advocates in 2015 and named 2013 Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association.
Notable case results
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 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.
A Baltimore City jury returned a $21 million verdict against MedStar Harbor Hospital after physicians failed to perform a timely emergency cesarean section during a premature delivery, causing a newborn to suffer oxygen deprivation and permanent spastic diplegic cerebral palsy.
A Harford County jury returned a $13.3 million verdict against Upper Chesapeake Medical Center and its attending obstetrician after nursing staff failed to recognize fetal distress signals during a 17-hour induced labor, leaving a boy born in 2004 with permanent brain damage and intellectual disability.
A Baltimore City jury returned a $5.87 million wrongful-death verdict against the University of Maryland Medical System after hospital staff failed to recognize and treat cardiac tamponade in a heart-surgery patient, delaying specialist intervention for more than an hour while she deteriorated.
A Baltimore County jury awarded $2 million to the family of Maria Abid after her obstetrician failed to act on ultrasound evidence of premature gestation and withheld corticosteroids that could have supported lung development before Maria was born at 33 weeks, leaving her with cerebral palsy.
Medical malpractice verdict, largest in Pennsylvania history, birth injuries resulting in cerebral palsy
Medical malpractice verdict, second-largest in Maryland history
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
