About Danielle Dinsmore

Danielle Dinsmore has been representing clients in medical malpractice matters throughout Maryland, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania for 25 years. For the past six years she has focused on plaintiff-side work involving wrongful death, paralysis, brain injury, birth injury, loss of limb, blindness, and surgical errors against large health care systems and physicians. She has secured verdicts and settlements in excess of $50 million to date. For 19 years before her transition to plaintiff-side practice, Ms. Dinsmore was a partner at two prominent Baltimore medical malpractice defense firms, representing hospitals, physicians, nurses, and nursing homes in state and federal courts.

She is recognized as one of the top-tier trial attorneys in the medical malpractice bar and has been named a Top 25 Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers. Her defense background gives her a distinctive perspective in case evaluation and trial strategy. She lives with her husband and son in Harford County, Maryland.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Cochran Firm (DC)

These results are credited to The Cochran Firm (DC). A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

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.

Baltimore City Circuit Court, MD (state class action) · 2014Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$18.65 millionVerdictTop 20 in Maryland · #12

A Prince George's County jury found University of Maryland Capital Region Health liable for the amputation of Jamie White's leg after two surgeries were delayed for hours following a 2020 slip-and-fall, cutting off oxygen to her limb for an irreversible stretch of time.

Prince George's County Circuit Court, MD · 2026Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$1.28 millionVerdict

A Spotsylvania County, Virginia jury awarded the estate of Joseph Roberts $1.28 million, plus about $170,000 in interest, against Carriage Hill Health & Rehab Center in August 2013. Roberts, a wheelchair user, was left alone outside the nursing home to smoke on June 3, 2011, and his clothes caught fire, causing second- and third-degree burns. The jury cleared the home's parent company, Commonwealth Care, of negligence.

Spotsylvania County Circuit Court, Virginia · 2013Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Widener University School of Law
J.D., Cum Laude, 1995
York College of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate, 1990

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Maryland
State Bar of Washington

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$25 million sought · Family of Rolin Hill Files $25 Million Wrongful Death Suit Over Virginia Beach In-Custody Death

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.