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About Curtiss Schreiber
Curtiss Schreiber, originally from Chicago, has dedicated his legal career to complex medical negligence and wrongful death cases, having focused almost exclusively in those areas for the past decade. As a former defense lawyer, he has direct knowledge of how insurance companies and medical institutions approach these cases, which he applies when seeking maximum results for his clients through settlement or trial. Curtiss earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2011 and his B.A. from Augsburg University in 2008. He has been named to Best Lawyers in America Ones to Watch and Leading Lawyers as an Emerging Lawyer, and is a member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Leventhal Puga Braley
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A Denver jury awarded $67,349,380 in July 2024 after a seven-month-old suffered permanent brain damage when a cardiothoracic surgeon accidentally tied off the infant's aorta during open-heart surgery and the perfusionists failed to detect the resulting loss of blood flow for more than seven hours.
A Colorado jury delivered what was then the state's largest medical malpractice verdict after a four-day-old girl suffered cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage when hospital staff administered an incorrect prostaglandin dose before congenital heart surgery.
A Broomfield County jury found Crested Butte Mountain Resort negligent per se for violating federal chairlift safety standards, awarding a family $12.4 million after their teenage daughter fell 30 feet from a moving ski lift and was permanently paralyzed.
A Kenton County, Kentucky jury awarded Melanie Robbins, then 35, $8.27 million in March 2017 after an emergency room physician and a radiologist missed a warning bleed on a head CT and sent her home. Twelve days later a dissecting brain aneurysm ruptured and left her almost completely paralyzed. The jury split fault equally between the two doctors. The Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed Dr. Perazzo's half in December 2020.
A federal jury awarded Jody Blatchley, former coach of New Zealand's Olympic snowboard team, $6.3 million after nurses at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center failed to recognize and report compartment syndrome for three days following his tibial surgery, leaving him with permanent foot drop and confined to a wheelchair.
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