Bradley J. Goewert

Brad Goewert brings over 35 years of litigation experience across Delaware, Florida, and Pennsylvania, with a primary focus on medical malpractice cases. He focuses on defending hospitals, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals in high-stakes and complex liability matters. In addition to healthcare liability, his practice also encompasses significant general liability, product liability, and professional negligence cases.

Throughout his career, Brad has managed several hundred healthcare liability matters, including trying 58 cases, nearly all of which he took to verdict. The majority of these resulted in defense verdicts. He has also successfully secured dismissals through stipulation, motions for summary judgment, and directed verdicts.

• Healthcare
• Catastrophic/Excess Liability
• Product Liability
• Professional Liability
• Litigation

Brad is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an invitation-only organization comprised of the most highly accomplished trial lawyers and judges in the country.  He has been selected Top Lawyer, Medical Malpractice Defense, Delaware Today 2024.  He has also been recognized by Delaware Super Lawyers 2024-2025.  Brad has also been awarded an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell.

Delaware
Florida
Pennsylvania

Loyola University School of Law, JD, 1988
University of South Florida, BA, 1984
American Board of Trial Advocates, Associate
Board Certified Specialist, Civil Trial Law, The Florida Bar
National Board of Trial Advocacy, Civil Trial
Delaware State Bar Association
Florida Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association

Brad's representative defense verdicts include the defense of a cardiologist in a 2008 trial involving the use of the drug Amiodarone, and a subsequent death involving pulmonary toxicity; the successful defense of a hospital in 2010 involving a patient who coded in the ED, was resuscitated for a half an hour with no pulse or respirations, was pronounced dead, and then a half an hour later, a nurse found the patient had come back to life and was breathing; and the successful defense verdict in 2011 of an interventional radiologist by rebutting a statutory presumption of negligence where a surgery is performed on the wrong organ.

In one notable case, Brad successfully defended a pulmonologist in 2010 who was alleged to have breached the standard of care by failing to give the 46-year-old decedent informed consent, including the risk of death, prior to performing a bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsy. Prior to trial, the defense convinced the court that the plaintiffs must prove not only that the physician failed to inform the patient of risks and alternatives, and the undisclosed risk materialized causing injury, but also that a reasonable patient in the position of decedent would have declined to undergo the procedure had she been properly informed. The jury found in favor of the physician on this newly recognized proximate cause standard for informed consent cases, and the decision was affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court.