Category: Firm News

After a two-week jury trial, Bekman Marder Lawyers Aaron Moore and Jeff Quinn obtained a $2,596,589 verdict in Fairfax County, Virginia. The case involved a 33-year-old woman diagnosed with an enlarged lymph node and Lyme’s disease. In fact, both diagnoses were incorrect.  A general surgeon in 2011 found that the patient did not have an enlarged lymph node In March 2011 and a subsequent CT scan confirmed that finding.  The patient was referred to an ENT surgeon who, nevertheless, recommended a lymph node biopsy in . . . Continue Reading

In an 82-page opinion yesterday, a federal judge permitted the claims of more than 800 Guatemalan victims of non-consensual human experimentation, represented by Bekman, Marder, Hopper, Moore & Quinn , to proceed against Defendants, Johns Hopkins, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. The Plaintiffs’ class action claims arise from human experiments conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s.  The victims, including children, soldiers, prisoners, and individuals in asylums, among others, were intentionally infected with syphilis and other venereal diseases in order to study how those diseases were . . . Continue Reading

Bekman, Marder, & Adkins and pharmacist-attorney, Aaron L. Moore have filed one of the first lawsuits in the country against Insys Therapeutics, Inc.  Bekman Marder is also investigating additional similar lawsuits. If you or someone you know has been prescribed the powerful narcotic Subsys, also known as oral Fentanyl spray, call us now at 410-539-6633. Subsys is a medication that is 100 times more potent than morphine.  It is a fentanyl-based opioid mouth spray intended to treat cancer patients suffering intense episodes of . . . Continue Reading

Following a four-week jury trial, SCBekman Marder Partners Paul D. Bekman and Wendy L. Shiff obtained a verdict on behalf of their clients in a medical malpractice case tried in the Supreme Court of Dutchess County in Poughkeepskie, New York. Bekman and Shiff represented  a resident of Dutchess County who underwent a cardiac catheterization and stent placement at a Dutchess County Hospital.  Following the procedure, nurses at the hospital failed to recognize that the patient was exhibiting signs and symptoms of a stent . . . Continue Reading

Today, on behalf of over 750 victims and family members, SCBekman Marder filed a lawsuit against The Rockefeller Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation, alleging that they were the primary driving force behind illegal and immoral human experiments in which vulnerable populations of Guatemalans were deceived, and intentionally exposed to syphilis, gonorrhea and other venereal . . . Continue Reading

Bekman, Marder, Hopper, Moore & Quinn, L.L.C. is proud to announce that it has been named to the U.S. News and World Report “Best Law Firms” list.  Nationally, SCBekman Marder was named to the Third Tier of the Best Law Firms in the are of Admiralty and Maritime Law.  In Maryland, SCBekman Marder was named to the First Tier in the areas of Admiralty & Maritime Law , Arbitration, Mediation, Plaintiffs’ Medical Malpractice , Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury , and Plaintiffs’ Product Liability Litigation . For the 2015 “Best Law Firms” list, U.S. News and World Report . . . Continue Reading