Kerry Staton

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.