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About Ned Deakins
Ned Deakins spent 15 years as a Colorado State Deputy Public Defender in the Appellate Division, where he argued more than 150 appeals, won new trials for clients denied fair proceedings, and successfully defended a $10 million verdict at the Colorado Court of Appeals. He joined Leventhal Puga Braley P.C. to focus that appellate expertise on vindicating the rights of civil clients in the appellate courts. Ned holds a J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law (2006) and a B.A. from New York University (2000). Prior to law school, he worked as a volunteer firefighter, and he continues to give back to the legal community by lecturing at the Public Defender's annual legal conference.
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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