Medical Malpractice Case Results

Dr. Fagel has spent years dedicating himself to obtaining the justice and compensation his clients deserve. Among the countless successful outcomes to cases throughout his career, Dr. Fagel has obtained over $1,000,000,000 (One Billion Dollars) in jury verdicts, settlements, and arbitration awards.

$5.5 million M. G., a minor v. Anonymous Physician/Hospital Failure to Perform Timely Cesarean Section | Los Angeles County Dr. Fagel achieved a settlement of $5,500,000 on the behalf of a child who now suffers cerebral palsy and severe developmental delays after hospital staff negligently delayed in performing a Cesarean section for two hours. The mother had a history of Gestational Diabetes and Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension prior to her arrival at the defendant hospital for labor and delivery. The fetal monitor initially showed a non-reassuring pattern, so the... Read More

$5.3 million Cathryn Rojas, a minor v. USA Brain Damage and Developmental Delays | San Diego County Dr. Fagel and his associates obtained a settlement of $5,300,000 on behalf of a child who suffers severe brain injury and developmental delays due to negligent delivery and resuscitation by hospital staff. The plaintiff’s mother, an active duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California, was seen twice at the Labor and Delivery unit at the base, checked by the staff and sent... Read More

$5.25 Million J.F. v. Anonymous Hospital and Anonymous Doctor J.F. v. Anonymous Hospital and Anonymous Doctor Fagel negotiated a $5,250,000 settlement for the family where medical negligence by doctors and the hospital resulted in severe neurological deficits, profound developmental delays, is unable to feed herself, unable to communicate and has profound spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and cortical vision impairment caused by a negligently managed labor and delivery. Read More

$5.03 million B.N., a minor v. Good Samararitan Hospital; Ling P. Chen MD Overuse of pitocin This action for malpractice involves a severe brain injury to the newborn plaintiff, that was the result of a failure of hospital L&D nursing staff and OB/GYN, Ling Chen, MD, to appreciate abnormal fetal heart rate (FHR) patterns, leading to overuse of Pitocin, and culminating in a sinusoidal followed by a bradycardic pattern of Category III, in which cesarean delivery... Read More

$5 million S.S. v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury The plaintiff suffered a severe hypoxic-ischemic brain injury due to a subdural hemorrhage with herniation of the brain stem prior to emergency life-saving surgery that occurred at Northridge Hospital on Dec. 29, 2018. The process that led to her stroke/brain injury began prior to the delivery of her child on Dec. 25, 2018, as was manifested by complaints of headache... Read More

$5 million A. Y. O., a minor v. Enloe Medical Center Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy | Butte County This action for malpractice involves severe neurological injuries to the plaintiff infant, as a result of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), which occurred during labor and persisted immediately after his delivery on 11/7/18, at Enloe Medical Center. Read More

$4.6 million A.M., a minor v. HCA Healthcare dba Good Samaritan Hospital; Los Olivos Women’s Medical Group; Stanford Healthcare; and Kirthi Inukonda MD Fetal heart rate not being monitored Child diagnosed with global brain damage due to a lack of oxygen (severe HIE) during labor and delivery-due to baby’s heart rate not being monitored for several hours-baby was born emergency c-section-lifeless. Now child is non verbal, wheelchair bound, on seizure medication to maintain active seizures, and will never live a normal life. Read More

$4.5 million O.J.B. v. Kaiser Foundation Hospital Wrongful life & birth case Wrongful Life/Birth case, where child was born with Downs Syndrome unbeknownst to the parents, and Kaiser who failed to provide genetic testing. Read More

$4.15 million M.E. v. Sharp Healthcare dba Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns; Madison Fish MD; West Coast OB/GYN Inc. Birth and Brain Injury | San Diego County Birth/Brain Injury to child who was diagnosed with significant brain damage after his vaginal delivery w/vacuum assistance. Child has suffered significant delays and will require therapy for most to all of his life. Read More

$3.5 million B.L. v. Kaiser Foundations Hospital Administration of too much Adavan | Los Angeles County Severely Brain Damaged 56 year old who went into cardiac arrest after she was administered too much adavan at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. Patient was in a vegetative state until her passing. Read More

$2 million K.M. as a successor or N.M. v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Wrongful death Wrongful death of baby at 3day of age on 6/20/22 at Kaiser Permenente Roseville Medical Center; Autopsy showed that child passed away due to severe HIE. Mother was in labor being induced for almost 4days with child’s heart rate fluctuating-child was born vaginally-not breathing; and was subsequently sent to the NICU for brain cooling; she unfortunately didnt make it. Read More