Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A.

More than 8,000 women reached a $190 million class-action settlement against Johns Hopkins Hospital after gynecologist Dr. Nikita Levy secretly filmed patients during examinations over a 25-year career.

Schochor, Federico and Staton, P.A. represented the largest single group of plaintiffs in a $123 million class-action settlement against Beebe Medical Center for institutional failures that allowed pediatrician Earl Bradley to abuse hundreds of children over 15 years.

Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Dana Middleton awarded $3,250,479 to four plaintiffs, including a toddler with severe burns to her face and hands, after a temple founder added gasoline to a wind-whipped bonfire during a 2024 harvest festival in South Baltimore.

A Harford County jury found two vascular surgeons negligent in a 2007 aortobifemoral bypass during which the patient lost nearly all of her blood volume and was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. The jury awarded $3,557,398, and the court reduced the pain and suffering portion under Maryland's cap on non-economic damages, entering judgment for $2,874,398. The Court of Special Appeals ordered a new trial in 2012, but the Court of Appeals of Maryland reversed it in 2013 and directed that the judgment be affirmed.

A Montgomery County jury awarded $2,045,213 to a veteran ER nurse permanently paralyzed when her orthopedic surgeon operated on the wrong side of her spine, finding both negligence and lack of informed consent.

A Baltimore County jury found in favor of Gerald McCrae Sr. after an orthopedic surgeon's repeated failure to remove an infected hip prosthesis caused septic shock, multiple strokes, organ failure, and permanent neurological and physical disability.

A Baltimore County jury awarded $1.75 million to the family of Albert 'Tom' Rochfort Jr., a retired science teacher who died days after an emergency physician dismissed his chest pain as a muscle strain instead of ordering the CT scan that would have caught an early aortic dissection.

A Montgomery County jury returned a $1.3 million gross verdict, reduced to approximately $1.27 million after Maryland statutory caps, for the parents of Ruben Bastien, a 23-year-old Army Reservist who died after an ER physician at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring failed to act on an abnormal EKG and sent him home without cardiology consultation.

A Talbot County jury awarded Bruce Clarke $970,900 after his surgeon perforated his stomach during robotic hernia repair and closed without detecting or repairing the injury, leaving Clarke to develop sepsis and chronic, disabling complications.