Wrongful Death/Bike Crash: 5,200,000 settlement

Our client was the widower of a 68 year old woman killed by an intoxicated driver.  She was on her bicycle, stopped in a bike lane when the driver, a construction worker on the job for Scott Roofing, crashed into her from behind.  Our investigation uncovered a culture of drug use and other bad ac... Read On

Motor Vehicle Collision: $575,000 settlement

Our client was in a high speed car collision when the adverse driver blew a stop sign. She sufferred a hangmans fracture requiring surgery and a lengthy recovery. Though she was not wearing a seat belt at the time, this was a rare occassion where her injuries would have likely been worse had she... Read On

Motor Vehicle Collision: $1,350,000 settlement

September 2017

Daurnheim v. Little Our client was parked in her car, waiting to pull out of a parking lot, when she was T-boned by a driver who lost control of his vehicle at upwards of 50 miles an hour.  The driver claimed “sudden emergency” – that he lost control because of a surprise, unexpected medical eme... Read On

Wrongful Death: $800,000 settlement

Doe v. Group Home Our client was the surviving mother of a seriously mentally ill woman who also struggled with drug addiction.  She lived in a group home.  On the day of her death, she told staff that she had taken some unknown quantity of an unknown drug.  She then slowly descended into letha... Read On

Negligence/Failure to Monitor: $500,000 settlement

August 2017

Minor Child v. Tucson Area School District Our client was a 6 year old boy on board a school bus.  The only other passenger was a 12 year old boy.  As the bus moved across Tucson, the older boy began the process of grooming and then sexually abusing our client.  The bus driver failed to stop the... Read On

Medical Malpractice: Administering Medication Contrary to Package Insert

March 2016

Our clients were the family of a man that died following an adverse reaction to an intravenous iron medication.  The case centered on whether the medications black box warning was followed in providing the iron supplement to the patient.  The case resolved for a confidential amount.  Read On

Medical Malpractice: Failure to Diagnose Pulmonary Embolism

July 2016

 Our clients were the family of a person that died from a pulmonary embolism.  In the two weeks prior to the patients death, he was repeatedly seen by his primary care doctor and a cardiologist for increasing shortness of breath.  The case centered on whether the primary care doctor and cardiolo... Read On

Medical Malpractice: Beatty v. Oro Valley Hospital ($5 Million Judgment)

Our client, a 45 year old former Marine and married father of two young boys, suffered paraplegia injuries after he fell approximately 20 feet from a bridge into a dark wash below. The fall occurred around 3:00am after Oro Valley Hospital medical staff administered morphine to the client in the E... Read On

Nursing Home Malpractice: Failure to Monitor Patient

October 2016

Our client was a nursing home patient whose blood sugar was allowed to get too low.  As a result, he stopped breathing and suffered severe brain damage.  The case centered on whether the nursing home failed recognize and act on the patients excessive sleepiness so to reverse his low blood sugar,... Read On

Medical Malpractice: Delay in Diagnosis of Bowel Injury

December 2016

We represented a family of a patient who died after an abdominal surgery to remove scar tissue.  Likely as a result of the surgery, she suffered a perforation of her small intestine and ultimately passed away from an overwhelming infection of her blood stream.  The case centered on whether the su... Read On

Medical Malpractice: Anesthesia Injury

December 2016

Our client suffered a severe injury during an intubation with a breathing tube.  The patient suffered massive blood loss as a result of the injury and nearly died.  She remained in a nursing home for five months, and needed a breathing tube for over a year.  The issues in the case where whether t... Read On

Dental Malpractice: Performance of a Root Canal

February 2017

Our client was a patient who developed a severe pain syndrome following a root canal. During the root canal, a solvent was allowed to migrate into the soft tissues above her tooth.   We were able to present strong expert testimony that it was malpractice to allow the solvent to migrate above the ... Read On

McCarthy v. USAA – $352,731 Arbitration Award.

Motor Vehicle Crash, Facial Scarring Our client was a 16 year old girl belted in the back seat of her mom's minivan on the way to soccer practice when another driver ran a red light and struck their vehicle.  The force of the collision blew out the car door window, cutting her face.  She was lef... Read On

Dart v. City of Tucson (1.8$ Million Settlement)

Mr. Dart was riding his bike when he was struck by a City of Tucson garbage truck that turned right, into his path. Read On

Dangerous Product: Bloom v. Brunswick Corporation ($9,000,000 Verdict)

Billy Bloom was in his mid-20s when he and his friends were water skiing at Barlett Lake. Billy's jet ski hit the wake from another boat, he was ejected, and his unmanned boat circled back and amputated his right leg. A Maricopa County jury awarded Billy $3 million in compensatory damages and $6 ... Read On

Insurance Bad Faith: Sparks v. Republic National Life ($4.5 Million Verdict)

At the time, this $4.5 million verdict was the largest in the State of Arizona. Ted Schmidt's clients were seriously injured in an airplane crash. The father suffered a severe brain injury and could not work. Consequently, the family fell behind in their health insurance premiums and the insuranc... Read On

Dangerous Product: Doty v. Bishara ($4,000,000 verdict)

The Doty family was vacationing in Northern Arizona when both rear tires on their SUV catastrophically failed simultaneously, resulting in a rollover accident near Lee's Ferry. As a consequence of the rollover, the husband and father who was driving the vehicle was rendered significantly and perm... Read On

Medical Malpractice: Post v. University Physicians, Inc. ($4 Million Award--Nation's Largest Refractive Surgery Verdict)

We obtained a $4,000,000 verdict in a LASIK eye surgery case where our client, a pilot, was improperly screened for the procedure. This amount stands as the nation's largest recovery for a refractive surgery case. Read On

Motor Vehicle Accident: Lunt v. Sears Roebuck and Co. ($3.5 Million Settlement)

We represented Melissa Lunt, age 18, after a Sears delivery truck broadsided her vehicle at 45 miles per hour. The Sears driver was talking on his cell phone when he ran a red light. Melissa sustained brain injury that caused memory loss and cognitive dysfunction. Read On

Government Negligence: Forest Service & Camp Failures Allow Black Bear Mauling (More than $2,500,000 Recovered)

We represented a teenage girl who was mauled by a black bear while attending a 4-H camp on Mt. Lemmon, just outside of Tucson. We proved that the defendants failed to follow their own rules and failed to properly manage the food and trash management at the camp. We also proved that the defendants... Read On