The AZ Injury Law team at Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian has won countless cases for our clients in our firm's 40+ years. We are capable of handling any kind of personal injury or accident claim, no matter how serious, complex, or complicated it may be.
Together, our team has recovered more than $150 million in damages and shares more than 120 years of combined legal experience. We have won some of the most prominent cases in Arizona history and have recovered record-setting sums for our clients. An impressive 98% of our cases end in a fair settlement, though we also have a strong record for successful trial verdicts as well.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We represented Patti Roland against a neurosurgeon, hospital, and anesthesiologist regarding her injuries sustained during and after a low back disk removal surgery. The surgeon, anesthesiologist, and nurses failed to diagnose and treat the injuries and shock suffered by Patti after the surgeon h... Read On
Ted Schmidt successfully proved that nutritional deficiencies in a soy based baby formula manufactured by Syntex had caused his infant client to experience “failure to thrive,” thus stunting her growth. On the morning of trial, the defendant agreed to a $2 million settlement. Read On
There was no insurance for the wrongdoer who ran Roger Quinnan's pickup truck off the road while he was on a business trip. He sustained head and internal injuries. We collected $250,000 from his own uninsured motorist carrier on his personal pickup truck. We then collected an additional $890,000... Read On
Our client was an airplane mechanic who fell from a parked 737 aircraft while it was being serviced at Evergreen, one of the nation's largest aircraft maintenance centers. We proved that the defendant improperly staged the aircraft for repair and chose an inadequate ladder for entry and exit. Our... Read On
We represented Tim Wall in a case against a Casa Grande motocross track. Both of Tim's legs were badly broken when he crashed his bike into a front-end loader the track owner had parked underneath one of the track's designed jumps. The owner was planning on doing some track maintenance but had no... Read On
We successfully negotiated a $300,000 settlement for our client as a result of her health insurer's refusal to pay for bone marrow transplant treatment of her breast cancer. She underwent the treatment anyway, paying for it with life savings and donations from family and friends. The treatment wa... Read On
March 2013
Matt Schmidt and Ted Schmidt represented a young tire repairman who had his boat stolen. State Farm refused to pay the man for the loss of his boat, claiming he was committing insurance fraud. Ted and Matt took State Farm to trial at the United States District Court for the District of Arizona an... Read On
