About Jon Simon Stefanuca
Jon Simon Stefanuca is a trial attorney at Gilman & Bedigian who focuses on medical malpractice and personal injury cases. He dedicates most of his time to helping children injured by medical negligence, including children diagnosed with cerebral palsy, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, and developmental delays. He has handled hundreds of birth injury cases in Maryland and across the country. He also has extensive experience with toxic exposure cases, including carbon monoxide and lead paint poisoning, as well as class actions, business disputes, and intellectual property matters.
He earned his J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law with honors and served as an Articles Editor for the Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class. He has been named a Maryland Super Lawyer in medical malpractice since 2020, and is recognized among America's Top 100 Medical Malpractice Litigators and the National Association of Distinguished Counsel's 'Nation's Top One Percent.' He is fluent in English, Russian, French, and Romanian. Prior to joining Gilman & Bedigian, he was a trial attorney with Murphy Falcon & Murphy.
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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