$25 Million Verdict

What happens when a hospital creates a culture where sexual assault by male nurses on female patients is allowed, then defends the action as unpreventable? A jury tells them otherwise to the tune of $25 million (with no punitive damages!).

Massive congrats to attorneys Eric Rosen and Gregory Roe for obtaining a verdict that not only told the hospital that they were wrong but, more importantly, told a client with the most horrific pre-existing history of sexual abuse I’ve ever seen that she’s valuable. They deserve the praise.

Jennifer LaRue (my colleague and another wonderful consultant) and I ran a mock trial and big data study on the case and selected the jury together last week.

The second photo is our post-jury selection strategy dinner, which I promised to post as a victory photo once they won. Our smiles were due to the knowledge we gained from mock trials and data studies that this case was a winner and the fun was just beginning.

The license plate photo tells you all you need to know about Gregory Roe. Before we went in for jury selection, I asked Greg “what does FYHY on your license plate mean?” He looked me straight in the eye and said “F*ck Yeah, Hell Yeah!” If that’s not the attitude of a plaintiff’s attorney, I don’t know what is. I think it’s my new motto.