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Mar 15, 2022

JVM Secures the Largest Jury Verdict for Medical Malpractice in 2021

In March of 2021, a Greene County jury awarded more than $34 million to the family of an infant born with severe medical problems at CoxHealth Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. This award has been named the largest medical malpractice verdict in the State of Missouri last year by Missouri Lawyers Weekly, a legal trade publication […]

Apr 22, 2021

Pitocin: The Synthetic Hormone Linked to Birth Injuries

Pitocin is a synthetic version of the natural occurring hormone, oxytocin. The female body naturally produces its own oxytocin in the pituitary gland, which causes uterine contractions. When labor starts, oxytocin continues to be released by the pituitary gland to drive the labor pattern. If the body makes its own oxytocin, why would synthetic Pitocin […]

Mar 12, 2021

JUSTICE FOR BRODY KENDRICK AND THE PEOPLE OF SPRINGFIELD

Recent $34M Verdict Is One of the Largest Medical Malpractice Verdicts in Missouri In 2014, Katie Chittenden was in labor at CoxHealth Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, joyfully anticipating the birth of her child, Brody Kendrick. During labor, the staff at CoxHealth gave Katie increasing doses of the drug Pitocin, causing her contractions to become so […]

May 14, 2020

My Grandchild Died During Delivery…

Hopefully, you’ll never face this nightmare. But what would you do if the unthinkable happens and you believe the hospital or physician is at fault? For the sake of illustration, let’s say that an infant died during childbirth. Perhaps it was a difficult delivery. Perhaps it was an error or oversight. What rights do the […]

Sep 23, 2019

Johnson, Vorhees & Martucci Wins $7.68 Million Verdict for Birth Injury Client

The Johnson, Vorhees & Martucci trial team of attorneys Roger Johnson, Scott Vorhees and Tati Scholfield-Johnson, along with paralegal Rusty Johnson, nurse consultant Pam Thurman and IT specialist Jeff Allender, had the great honor of speaking for a three year old – Warren H. – before a Jasper County, Missouri, jury from September 3-17. Shout […]

Feb 17, 2015

Family settles medical malpractice claim over boy’s birth injury

He was born nearly three and a half years ago. Instead of anticipating the day their son begins kindergarten, his parents are planning for his lifetime of required care. At his birth, he suffered a “catastrophic brain injury” due to medical malpractice, according to the lawsuit the family filed far from us in Joplin. Media […]

Jan 31, 2014

Family settles medical malpractice claim over boy’s birth injury

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JVM Secures the Largest Jury Verdict for Medical Malpractice in 2021

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JUSTICE FOR BRODY KENDRICK AND THE PEOPLE OF SPRINGFIELD

My Grandchild Died During Delivery…

Johnson, Vorhees & Martucci Wins $7.68 Million Verdict for Birth Injury Client

Family settles medical malpractice claim over boy’s birth injury

Family settles medical malpractice claim over boy’s birth injury

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