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$18.6 Million Verdict - Closing Statement
$11 Million Verdict - Closing Statement

The $19.4 Million Settlement - Mr. Baizer's Opening Statement

Ladies and gentlemen, let's go back to February 3rd, 1993, at 11:30 at night. Nurse Adique is caring for Paul who, in her mind, is just another routine patient. Eleven hours ago Paul has had a routine neurological procedure that lasted 33 minutes. Nurse Adique has cared for hundreds of patients like she thinks Paul is. She has no reason to believe that Paul isn't like everybody else who's had this same procedure. Nobody's told her anything different. Continue reading Opening Statement...

The $18.6 Million Verdict - Mr. Baizer's Closing Argument

Kim Bolduan was two weeks late with her fourth child. She was admitted to a local hospital for induction of labor. She was at risk, since she was intending to deliver her baby vaginally after having had a Caesarean section with one of her prior deliveries. Her labor was normal until about 5:50 a.m. At that time she started pushing. Then everything went wrong. The obstetrician left the room to attend to another birth. She wasn't to return for almost another hour. She could have if she was called, but the nurse never called her. Instead, the nurse sat idly by as the fetal monitor figuratively cried out for help. As the fetal distress grew and grew, the nurse did business as usual. She even increased the labor inducing drug, Pitocin, not only beyond what the doctor had ordered, but beyond hospital policy. Continue reading Closing Argument...

The $11 Million Verdict - Mr. Baizer's Closing Statement

Good morning. It's August 24th, 2002, and USF Holland's driver, Thomas Klatt, is heading back home to Wisconsin. It's 4:40 a.m., and he is on auto pilot. He has driven this route hundreds of times. It's very possible that at 4:40 a.m., at 4:00 a.m., he has never seen a red light going northbound on 41. He is on auto pilot.

As the 18-wheeler heads towards Stearns School Road, the driver either dozes off or, as Dr. Moore-Ede described it, has a microsleep, or he's otherwise distracted, or for some reason he chooses to run a red light. 150 to 170 feet past the middle of the intersection, the USF Holland truck plows into the rear of Alberto's Honda Civic. A few hours later, the Davilas get that knock on their door that every parent lives in fear of. That ended the life of a terrific kid, and that ended the -- or altered the lives of a wonderful family forever. Continue reading Closing Statement...