About Jennifer Sutherland
Jennifer Sutherland is a trial attorney with more than twenty-four years of experience representing clients in personal injury, professional negligence, employment, civil rights, and insurance matters. She previously served as Chief Solicitor with the Baltimore City Office of Law and as a partner at several Baltimore-area law firms. Her notable cases include a multi-million dollar fraud and undue influence suit against a wealth adviser and accountant, a civil rights case involving an employer's refusal to recognize an employee's religious marriage, and a shareholder-initiated business dissolution tried before Chancellor Leo Strine of Delaware's Chancery Court. She has represented clients before the Maryland Board of Contract Appeals and federal and state agencies including the EEOC, the Office of Compliance, and various Merit System Protection Boards, as well as in private arbitrations before FINRA and the American Arbitration Association.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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