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About Kate Bailey
Kate Bailey spent more than a decade as a defense attorney representing physicians, hospitals, healthcare organizations, and national companies in complex civil litigation before devoting her practice to representing injured individuals and families. That defense-side experience gives her direct insight into how defendants build and try complex cases, which she draws on to anticipate and counter defense strategies. Kate has tried complex civil cases in state and federal courts across the country, argued before the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Eighth Circuit, and has taken and defended hundreds of depositions.
Her work contributed to the largest excessive force settlement ever paid by El Paso County, Colorado. She earned her J.D. cum laude from Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, where she was a two-time champion of the Utah State Bar Linda Anderson Trial Advocacy Competition (2012-2013), and her B.A. in Communications from Brigham Young University-Idaho. Kate is admitted in Colorado and Utah, and has been named a Colorado Super Lawyers Rising Star and to Best Lawyers in America Ones to Watch.
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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