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About Gladys Santana
Gladys Proa Santana is Senior Counsel at Wagstaff Law Firm and an experienced advocate for clients harmed by defective medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs, workplace injuries, and automobile accidents. With more than 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, she has represented thousands of clients in complex mass torts and has headed litigation dockets including Actos, Pradaxa, IVC Filter, Taxotere, Talcum Powder, and Tobacco. Her litigation work spans the Cook Medical and Bard IVC filter MDLs, Pradaxa litigation in Connecticut state court, and the Actos and DePuy ASR litigations in Illinois state court, with results including a $2.4 billion resolution on behalf of individuals injured by a defective diabetes drug, a $12.2 million recovery for women injured by a defective contraceptive device, and a $7.6 million products liability settlement.
She volunteers as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children with CASA Kane County and is fluent in Spanish. A board member of the Society of Women Trial Lawyers, she has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star since 2018 and recognized by Best Lawyers in America since 2022. She earned both her J.D. and B.A. from Northern Illinois University and is admitted in Illinois and the Northern and Southern Districts of Illinois.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Wagstaff Law Firm
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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.
Edwin Hardeman, 70, sprayed Roundup on his Sonoma County property for about 26 years and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2015. In the first federal Roundup bellwether trial, a unanimous San Francisco jury found in March 2019 that the herbicide was a substantial factor in his cancer and that Monsanto failed to warn, awarding $5,267,634 in compensatory damages and $75 million in punitive damages. Judge Vince Chhabria cut the punitive award to $20 million as constitutionally excessive, leaving a $25,267,634 judgment. The Ninth Circuit affirmed in May 2021 and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Monsanto's petition in June 2022.
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