Similar personal injury attorneys in Cincinnati
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
About Jill Gustafson
Jill Gustafson is Of Counsel at Lawrence, Beirne & Lewis and has devoted 25 years to representing catastrophically injured clients in medical malpractice matters. She initially pursued nursing, earning a degree from Ohio State University and working as a registered nurse at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus before transitioning to law. Her clinical background directly informs her approach to patient advocacy, as she views legal representation as an extension of her nursing career.
Ms. Gustafson represents clients who suffered injuries from the negligence of hospitals, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. She holds bar admissions in Ohio, Kentucky, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and is a member of the American Association for Justice, Ohio Bar Association, and Kentucky Justice Association. She published an article on failure to diagnose heart attack cases in Trial Magazine in 1996.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Lawrence, Beirne & Lewis
These results are credited to Lawrence, Beirne & Lewis. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Montgomery County jury awarded the Stanziano family $30,953,181 in July 2009 after finding Miami Valley Hospital negligent in a birth injury case, reportedly the largest medical malpractice verdict in Ohio at the time. The parties then reached a confidential settlement before the punitive damages phase, so the amount actually paid was less than the verdict.
A Clermont County, Ohio jury found that an emergency room doctor was negligent for failing to instruct the parents of a nine-year-old boy on how to watch for a serious head injury after a fall, a lapse that let an epidural hematoma go undetected overnight and required emergency brain surgery. The jury awarded $2,412,899 in 2010, which the trial court reduced by a $500,000 credit for the family's earlier settlement with the hospital, leaving the doctor and his practice group liable for $1,912,899 plus prejudgment interest. The Twelfth District Court of Appeals affirmed the verdict in 2012, and the Ohio Supreme Court resolved a separate dispute over how the interest should be calculated in 2013, sending that narrow issue back to the trial court. The underlying negligence finding and damages figure were never disturbed.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
