Pricing a Damaged Brain
The balance sheet for a life that went wrong from its first moments.

Settlement….$1.5 million
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald….$295,000

Total court fees….$580
Depositions….$1,585.80
Daily copy (transcripts from the court)….$4,649.30
Review by OB-GYN….$2,750
Bruce Halbridge’s fee to testify….$7,782
Economist testimony….$2,975
Report from life- care specialist….$3,943.75
Testimony of life-care specialist$4,750
Pediatric neurologist Leon Charash’s review and report….$2,500
Pediatric neurologist testimony….$6,500
Miscellaneous….$3,264.96

Total Expenses….$41,280.81
Medicaid….$80,000
Taamel….$1,079,597.27

-By Yael Kohen

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