Small Firm Lawyers Win $4.Florida Circuit Court

Lawyers USAOctober 12, 2011

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Two small firm lawyers have won a $4.5 million jury verdict in favor of the parents of a boy born with no arms and one leg after an obstetrician failed to detect the missing limbs on ultrasounds performed at 21 and 24 weeks of gestation.

Robert T. Bergin, Jr., a solo attorney in West Palm Beach, Fla., told the jury that had the parents known about the baby's disabilities, they would have opted to terminate the pregnancy.

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Small Firm Lawyers Win $4.Florida Circuit Court

As a result, one major challenge facing the plaintiffs' attorneys was weeding out jurors with anti-abortion viewpoints.

"It was a very delicate case in that regard," said Jason D. Weisser of the six-lawyer firm Schuler Halvor...

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