Christopher T. Casciano is a Partner and trial attorney at Brown & Barron, LLC. Since being admitted to practice in Maryland, Chris has represented individuals and families harmed by medical negligence, nursing home abuse and neglect, wrongful death, birth injuries, and other catastrophic injuries. He helps clients investigate what happened, understand their options, and pursue accountability when harm came from the health care providers, facilities, institutions, corporations, insurers, or other parties entrusted to keep people safe.
Chris handles high-stakes cases where the injury is permanent, the loss is profound, and the answers matter. He files, litigates, and tries claims involving hospitals, physicians, surgeons, nurses, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, dialysis providers, and other health care professionals and institutions. His practice includes delayed diagnosis and treatment; surgical errors; medication errors; emergency department negligence; failures to monitor, communicate, supervise, or timely escalate care; obstetrical negligence and birth injuries; wrongful death; and serious personal injury claims.
Chris also represents nursing home residents and their families in matters involving pressure injuries and bedsores, falls and fractures, malnutrition and dehydration, untreated infections and sepsis, medication errors, choking and aspiration, inadequate supervision, wandering or elopement, and physical, emotional, or financial abuse. These cases often turn on whether a facility’s records show missed assessments, inadequate staffing, ignored warning signs, or a failure to respond when a resident’s condition changed.
Chris has litigated and tried cases in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil, Harford, Montgomery, Prince George’s, and Washington Counties. He represents Maryland clients in claims arising from hospitals, physicians’ offices, surgery centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and other health care settings. Brown & Barron is based in Baltimore and represents clients across Maryland, from Annapolis and Baltimore to Rockville, Gaithersburg, Waldorf, Bowie, Catonsville, Dundalk, and communities on the Eastern Shore.
Chris has helped clients obtain substantial jury verdicts and settlements. In Kunda v. Lexington Plastic Surgeons, a Prince George’s County jury returned a $35,013,510 verdict. In Karavas v. UMMC, a Baltimore City jury returned an $8.3 million verdict.
Chris also advocates for injured military service members, veterans, and their families in complex medical negligence claims involving government health care providers. He served as lead counsel in Carter v. United States, a Federal Tort Claims Act case arising from alleged negligent cervical spine surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The claim alleged that Mr. Carter—an inactive duty Air National Guard Staff Sergeant, not under military orders or engaged in a military mission at the time of surgery—sustained a permanent spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed. After the United States District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed the action under the Feres doctrine and the Fourth Circuit affirmed, Chris and the team at Brown & Barron petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of certiorari. The petition asked the Court to clarify, limit, or overrule the Feres doctrine as applied to medical malpractice claims by inactive duty service members. The Supreme Court ultimately denied review, but Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the denial and wrote that the case presented an opportunity to overrule, or at least limit, Feres.
Chris has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for Medical Malpractice Law—Plaintiffs from 2021 through the present and in Maryland Super Lawyers from 2017 through the present. He is a member of the Maryland Association for Justice, including its Legislative Leaders Circle, the American Association for Justice, and the Maryland State Bar Association.
Chris was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2021, and Supreme Court of the United States in 2024.
Outside the office, Chris coaches youth baseball, soccer, and basketball. He enjoys traveling, gardening, and spending time with his family.
