$109m

Electrocution Accident / Wrongful Death

Baldwin Matzus, LLC attorney Kila Baldwin was on the trial team that obtained a $109 million verdict in a wrongful death case in Allegheny County in favor of a woman who died three days after receiving an electric shock from a fallen power line in her yard. According to annual statistics, it was the largest award in the county’s history.

$80 Million

Defective Pelvic Mesh Implant

A prolift trial in May 2019 resulted in $80 million—including $50 million in punitive damages—for a client represented by Thomas Kline, of Kline Specter and Kila Baldwin, of Baldwin Matzus, LLC.

$57.1 Million

Defective Transvaginal Mesh Implant

Kila Baldwin co-lead in a vaginal mesh case where the client sustained lifelong injuries due to defective transvaginal mesh implants. The client was awarded damages for the negligent design of the products and the manufacturers' willful disregard for patient safety.

$57 Million

Defective Vaginal Mesh Implant

Kila Baldwin co-lead in a defective vaginal mesh implant case wherein the client was awarded $57 million in damages over an implant launched with no clinical trial and marketed despite a higher failure rate.

$41 Million

Defective Transvaginal Mesh Implant

Kila Baldwin co-lead in a transvaginal mesh case wherein a Philadelphia jury awarded $41 million to the client who underwent nine surgeries to treat the injuries she sustained as a result of defective transvaginal mesh.

$12.75 Million

Neurosurgical Medical Malpractice

Kila Baldwin obtained a $9.7 million verdict in a neurosurgical medical malpractice case—with the product liability portion of that case previously settling for $12.75 million—on behalf of a client who suffered permanent brain damage after a laser probe broke off during surgery.

$9.7 Million

Surgical Malpractice

Neurosurgeons at University Hospital were found to be liable for the injury that Kila Baldwin's client sustained while undergoing surgery to remove a benign brain tumor.

$1.8 Million

Delay Damages in Surgical Malpractice Case

Baldwin's client had $1.8 million in delay damages added to the $9.7 million verdict won late last year from the long-term neurological injuries stemming from the botched brain surgery.

$1.3 Million

Failure to Diagnose Cancer

Kila Baldwin's client was awarded a settlement by a Pennsylvania federal jury after her gynecologist failed to address her ovarian cyst that was later revealed to be cancerous and spread to other areas of the body.

Developing New Law

Court Loosens Rules on Where Malpractice Cases Can be Filed

President of the trial lawyers’ Pennsylvania Association for Justice, Kila Baldwin, said the new rule “accomplishes the goal of returning fairness to the rules and the basis of our legal system of treating all parties equally under the law.”