Most plaintiff lawyers settle every matter they handle. Paul's willingness to take a case to verdict is what creates leverage in negotiations and produces fair settlements in the cases that never reach a courtroom. These are selected verdicts and settlements from a trial-focused practice.
Every result reflects the unique facts and law of that case. Past outcomes do not guarantee future results.
One of the largest medical malpractice jury verdicts ever recorded against a single Ontario obstetrician, secured for a Toronto family whose twin was born with cerebral palsy.
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I represented the plaintiff in this surgical malpractice case. The trial judge found a breach of the standard of care, but the claim failed at causation.
A settlement involving a 65-year-old man whose ankle fracture went 40 days without orthopedic follow-up, leading to joint infection and below-knee amputation.
A jury verdict of $11.5 million for cerebral palsy, upheld at the Court of Appeal, following a community obstetrician’s failure to recognize and refer twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.
The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld Paul Cahill’s trial verdict in Hacopian-Armen Estate v Mahmoud, clarifying the foreseeability test in delayed cancer cases.
Paul Cahill won a trial verdict in Hacopian-Armen v Mahmoud where Justice Brown found a gynecologist negligently failed to biopsy and missed a curable cancer.
Paul Cahill won a trial verdict in O’Neill-Renouf v Ibrahim where Justice Baltman found a urologist negligently injured the obturator nerve during a TVT procedure.
Paul Cahill won an $11.5 million jury verdict against an obstetrician whose failure to refer to a perinatologist caused a catastrophic cerebral palsy birth injury.
Paul Cahill settled a wrongful death claim against a family physician who failed to provide the HCC surveillance that hepatitis B carriers require.
Paul Cahill settled a laboratory negligence claim where a failure to properly test tuberculosis susceptibilities led to vertebral collapse and spinal surgery.