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Mass Tort · Johns Hopkins

$190M Settlement · Dr. Nikita Levy · 9,000 Victims

Dr. Nikita Levy was an OB/GYN at Johns Hopkins for 25 years. For years he secretly photographed and filmed patients during examinations — including minors — using a device hidden in a pen clipped to his coat. He performed an estimated 12,000 patient encounters. When the story broke in 2013, Johns Hopkins faced the largest sexual misconduct settlement in its history.

The offer was $50 million.

Karen built the communications operation that changed that number. She told the story in a way that made 9,000 women recognize themselves in it — and call. The AP wire mechanism generated over one million media impressions in a single day: NYT, WaPo, CBS News, and WSJ simultaneously. The story reached women who did not know they were victims.

The settlement was $190 million. The narrative moved the number.

→ $190M settlement · 9,000 victims · 1M+ impressions in 24 hours · NYT · WaPo · CBS · WSJ

Mass Tort · Delaware

$123M Settlement · 900+ Child Victims

A Delaware pediatrician sexually abused more than 900 children over 15 years. He videotaped more than 100 of those assaults. His sister had warned the hospital he was a predator years before his arrest. The hospital made him chief of the department.

The institutional defendants — the hospital and the state medical society — had known, or should have known, and said nothing. The communications operation placed that institutional failure at the center of the story. The $123 million settlement was the largest single-perpetrator sexual abuse settlement in the country at the time.

→ $123M settlement · 900+ child victims · Record single-perpetrator settlement

Mass Tort · Maryland

Fraudulent OB/GYN · 300+ Victims · Eight Years

For eight years, a man with eleven aliases and fraudulent medical credentials delivered babies and performed obstetric surgeries at a Maryland hospital. He was not a doctor. The hospital never verified his credentials.

More than 300 women contacted counsel.

→ 300+ victims reached · Eight years of fraudulent practice · Hospital accountability

Environmental Mass Tort · Florida

Mosaic Fertilizer · 215 Million Gallons · Floridan Aquifer

On August 27, 2016, a sinkhole opened beneath a phosphogypsum waste stack at Mosaic Fertilizer's New Wales facility in Mulberry, Florida. Two hundred and fifteen million gallons of radioactive contaminated wastewater poured into the Floridan Aquifer — the primary drinking water source for 10 million Florida residents.

Mosaic knew on August 27. They told no one until September 15. For nineteen days, families drank the water, bathed in it, and gave it to their children.

The communications challenge was the concealment as much as the contamination. The operation placed the nineteen-day decision alongside the contamination itself.

→ 215M gallons · Floridan Aquifer · 10 million people's drinking water · 19-day concealment

Federal · Nuclear Fallout · Nevada

Downwinders · Nevada Test Site · Nuclear Testing Fallout

Between 1951 and 1962, the United States government conducted more than 200 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site. The government tracked the fallout. It tracked the cancer rates in communities downwind. It did not tell those communities what it knew.

Families in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona developed cancer at rates the National Cancer Institute later estimated at between 11,000 and 212,000 cases nationally linked to the testing.

The communications work was about recognition: making people who had spent their lives wondering why their families were sick understand that the government had the answer and chose not to share it. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act passed in 1990. The communications work of reaching the people it was meant to compensate — and making them understand they qualified — continued for years after.

→ Nevada · Utah · Arizona · Nuclear fallout · Federal compensation program

Crisis · Network Television

Plaintiff Law Firm · Segment Stopped Pre-Air

When a client's crisis was tracked for broadcast by a major national news program, the standard advice was to cooperate minimally and brace for broadcast. Karen did not take the standard approach.

A counter-narrative strategy with aggressive third-party placement and direct producer engagement stopped the segment before it aired. No broadcast. No coverage. The matter was resolved without the story that would have defined the client's public record for a decade.

The best outcome was silence. Karen delivered it.

→ Segment killed before broadcast · No coverage

Federal · DOE Crisis

DOE Nuclear Contractor · 70 Federal Sites · Nebraska

DOE nuclear contractor communications lead in Nebraska, managing crisis communications simultaneously across 70 federal sites. Seventy sites. Thousands of workers. Federal agencies, local communities, and national press all in the room at the same time.

→ 70-site federal communications · Multi-agency coordination