James Cardea
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About James Cardea
James D. Cardea is a partner at Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A. in Baltimore, Maryland, with over 30 years of litigation and jury trial experience focusing on medical negligence and catastrophic injury. He has secured one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the country and numerous seven-figure verdicts. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (2026) and the International Society of Barristers (2025), and has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America for Medical Malpractice since 2011 and as a Maryland Super Lawyers Top 10 attorney (2025-2026).
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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 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.
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.