About Matthew McNaughton
Matthew J. McNaughton spent 30 years as a police officer and firefighter with the City and County of San Francisco before joining the Carcione team after his admission to the State Bar of California in 2003. For more than two decades he has represented injured peace officers, sheriffs, paramedics, and firefighters in California workers' compensation matters, from employee death cases to complex cumulative trauma claims arising from public safety work. His practice applies public safety presumptions where appropriate and addresses the interaction between the workers' compensation system, industrial disability retirement through public entities such as CalPERS and SFERS, and Social Security Disability. His years handling Peace Officer and Firefighter Bill of Rights investigations and litigation give him a distinct knowledge base for resolving injured workers' challenges. Outside of law he spends time with family and friends and works on building projects that are rarely finished.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Carcione, Henderson & Markowitz, LLP
These results are credited to Carcione, Henderson & Markowitz, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Stanislaus County jury awarded $6,226,793 in compensatory damages and $290 million in punitive damages against Ford Motor Company after a 1978 Bronco rolled over and its roof collapsed, killing three members of the Romo family and orphaning three children. Joseph W. Carcione Jr., the retired founder of the practice that continues today as Carcione, Henderson & Markowitz, tried the case. The punitive award was cut to $23,723,287 in 2003 after the U.S. Supreme Court's State Farm v. Campbell decision, and Ford paid the reduced judgment.
A San Mateo County jury found in March 2016 that the mattress pad in an Evenflo playard was defectively designed because its cover was close to impermeable to air, and that the defect killed a seven-month-old girl who had been put down for a nap at her daycare in 2010. The jury awarded her parents $8,000,000, $4,000,000 each, voting 10 to 2 on design defect and hanging on a companion negligence claim. Evenflo appealed. In November 2018 the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the jury's special verdict findings but reversed the judgment and sent the case back for a new trial limited to apportioning fault between Evenflo and the daycare, because the trial court had refused to instruct the jury on comparative fault. No final judgment figure against Evenflo appears in the public record after that.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
