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.
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
We successfully defended Brian Jeffries, The Voice of the Wildcats against several attempts by Clear Channel to prevent him from broadcasting U of A football games and his radio talk show concerning Arizona Wildcat sports from radio station 1210, The Source, after Arizona moved its broadcasting c... Read On
Our client, a teenage boy, was paralyzed after a bicycle crash on a BMX track. We argued that the track was negligently designed in that the obstacles on the track were placed too close together. Our settlement enabled our client to not only obtain the necessary therapies and treatment he require... Read On
Matt Schmidt obtained a total of $625,000 in a settlement and a jury verdict in Yavapai County after a faulty cabinet that was negligently installed fell off the wall and on top of a woman, fracturing her back and causing permanent injury. Read On
Our 21-year-old client was left a quadriplegic after a rollover accident on I-10 between Tucson and Phoenix. We reached a confidential settlement against Honda arguing that the roof and roof support system were too weak to properly protect occupants in a rollover accident. Read On
We successfully negotiated a significant settlement for a young boy whose father was killed as a result of a sealing compound exploding while he was performing tile work. Read On
