Meet Attorney Chuck Hehmeyer

For more than thirty-five years, Chuck Hehmeyer has maintained a national practice representing both children and adults in a broad array of medical malpractice and wrongful death cases, including primary care, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, gastroenterology, surgery, pediatrics, cardiology, oncology, endocrinology, genetics, hematology, neurology, and ophthalmology. He is the only lawyer in the country who regularly represents families of children who have suffered avoidable injuries from metabolic diseases, inborn errors of metabolism, and other genetic disorders. Chuck’s accomplishments in this area and relentless client advocacy have led to many important improvements in healthcare delivery, such as expanding newborn screening and requiring hospital emergency departments to honor emergency protocols for patients with rare diseases.

In addition to medical negligence cases involving birth injuries and mistreatment of rare, complex medical conditions, Chuck also represents clients in serious motor vehicle crash cases, typically involving tractor-trailers, as well as tragedies involving gun violence.

Recently, Chuck won a $25,000,000 unanimous jury verdict on behalf of a man who suffered catastrophic injuries in a motorcycle accident due to the negligence of a tractor-trailer driver. This award garnered national recognition. This year, Chuck achieved the largest personal injury recovery in Maine history, which also resulted from a truck crash caused by driver negligence. Currently, Chuck is working with his colleague Attorney Travis Brennan to represent the victims and their families associated with the tragic mass shooting incident that occurred on October 25, 2023, in Lewiston, ME.

Chuck’s experience as a litigator, expertise in legal strategy, and dominant record of trial victories places him among the very best lawyers in the nation. By bringing professionalism, compassion, and the highest level of integrity to his work, he has won the respect of his colleagues and earned the trust and praise of his clients.

Prior to moving to Maine, Chuck was a partner at Raynes Lawn Hehmeyer in Philadelphia where he managed a highly respected and successful medical malpractice legal team. Chuck has represented plaintiffs as lead counsel in significant cases in 24 states nationwide.

Chuck holds many distinctions and memberships, including recognition as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only selection of the very best of the trial bar from the United States and Canada.

Chuck and his teams have achieved notable success in many complex, high-profile cases, including these select verdicts and settlements:

• $25 million unanimous jury verdict for catastrophic injuries from a motorcycle accident.
• $23.25 million recovery in truck crash case.
• $14 million for the death of a child from an incorrect GI diagnosis.
• $10 million for delay in diagnosis of a genetic disease that caused a brain injury.
• $9.9 million for delay in diagnosis of a metabolic disorder causing a brain injury.
• $9.5 million for paralysis from delayed diagnosis of a spinal epidural abscess.
• $9.25 million for paralysis from delayed diagnosis of a spinal infection.
• $9 million for paralysis from an incorrect diagnosis and patient abandonment.
• $8.5 million for improper treatment causing a stroke.
• $8 million for failure to follow a rare-disease treatment protocol causing a brain injury.
• $8 million for failure to follow up on lab results causing a brain injury in a child.
• $7.2 million for failure to diagnose and treat a blood disorder causing a stroke.
• $7 million for misdiagnosis of a neurological disorder causing a brain injury.
• $7 million for withholding glucose from a child causing a brain injury.
• $7 million confidential settlement.
• $5.5 million settlement for a child not properly screened for a metabolic disorder.
• $5 million for incorrect lab result resulting in the birth of child with a fatal disease.
• $4.5 million for negligent emergency-room treatment causing visual impairment.