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Brain damaged child settlement

By Ben Glass

According to documents filed in a Probate Court in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the attorneys for the Cleveland Clinic and the mother of a brain-damaged child reached a $10 million settlement for a medical malpractice suit on May 1.

Of the settlement amount, Michael Becker, the attorney who represented Solon, Ohio resident Elizabeth Elia and her 6-year-old son Abram, asked the court to approve his request of $4 million in legal fees and $430,000 in medical and legal expenses.

A $15.9 million verdict had been reached by the jury that heard the two-week trial, but the attorneys settled the case before the verdict form had been signed. According to Becker, one part of the settlement was for the verdict forms to remain sealed.

However, the verdict papers were inadvertently placed into the public case file, revealing the award that would have been one of the largest ever in Cuyahoga County.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Ben Glass

Full post as published by Northern Virginia Personal Injury Lawyer on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).