January 2023
Mary Alane Downs and Steffany Bender obtained a defense verdict in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County in a case involving the alleged inappropriate placement of a pneumatic tourniquet resulting in a nerve injury.

April 2023
Christian Kintigh obtained a defense verdict in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in a case involving an alleged lingual nerve injury.

May 2023
Mary Alane Downs and Steffany Bender obtained a defense verdict in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in a case involving the failure to diagnose uterine perforation causing maternal and fetal death.

Steffany Bender and Karen Herzog had their client dismissed during trial in the Circuit Court for Calvert County in a case involving the alleged failure to appropriately supervise a CRNA who performed intubation resulting in potential esophageal perforation.

Mary Alane Downs and Christian Kintigh obtained judgment in favor of their client during trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County when they successfully struck the Plaintiff’s standard of care expert testimony in a case involving the alleged failure to properly treat a testicular complication.

June 2023
Steffany Bender and Megan Freeman obtained a defense verdict in the Circuit Court for Harford County in a case involving alleged negligence in performance of a hip replacement resulting in a retroperitoneal bleed.

Mary Alane Downs and Karen Herzog obtained a defense verdict in the Circuit Court for Frederick County in a case involving the alleged failure to diagnose a pulmonary embolism.

August 2023
Mary Alane Downs and Karen Herzog obtained a defense verdict in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in a case involving the alleged failure to postpone a colonoscopy due to neutropenia causing necrotizing fasciitis.

September 2023
Mary Alane Downs and Christian Kintigh obtained a defense verdict in the Circuit Court for Harford County in a case involving the alleged failure to operate on retroperitoneal bleed following vascular surgery.

January 2024
Mary Alane Downs and Steffany Bender obtained a defense verdict in the Circuit Court for Washington County in a case involving the alleged failure to diagnose a stroke.

Christian Kintigh and Karen Herzog obtained a defense verdict in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in a case involving the alleged failure to timely diagnose and/or properly treat sepsis.

In June 2023, an arbitrator found in favor of Mary Alane Downs and Karen Herzog’s client, a urologist, in a case involving the alleged failure to properly discern an adherent lesion in the margin between the prostate and rectum.

In March 2023, Steffany Bender filed a motion to preclude the testimony of the Plaintiff’s only expert witness on the basis that the expert failed to offer his opinion to a reasonable degree of medical probability and that his testimony was insufficiently specific or definite. This motion was granted. Accordingly, at trial Steffany made an oral motion for summary judgment, which was also granted.