About Mark Goodheart

Mark B. Goodheart is an experienced trial lawyer and counselor who brings a diverse legal, corporate, and personal background to the practice of law. Throughout his career, Mark has represented individuals, families, and children seeking recovery for economic loss, physical pain and suffering, and emotional damage from professional liability, medical negligence, ordinary negligence, and wrongful conduct of others. After beginning his career at two prestigious Philadelphia firms, Mark opened The Goodheart Firm on January 1, 2015, serving a diverse clientele including personal injury victims, regional and national businesses, and family enterprises. Mark earned his J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law and his B.A. from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig

These results are credited to Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A $160 million settlement, the largest pre-verdict settlement in Pennsylvania court history, resolved claims against U-Haul after an overfilled propane tank exploded at a North Philadelphia food truck, killing a mother and her teenage daughter and severely burning three others.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2018Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

A Philadelphia jury found Pottstown Memorial Medical Center liable for a newborn's severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy after the hospital's outdated, unmaintained ultrasound equipment led a physician to incorrectly declare the baby dead, delaying an emergency cesarean section by 81 minutes.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2012Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$50 millionSettlementTop 20 of 2016 · #10

Feldman Shepherd secured a combined $50 million settlement from IKEA on behalf of three families whose toddler sons were fatally crushed by MALM dressers, a result that preceded a nationwide recall of approximately 29 million chests and dressers.

Private mediation (JAMS) · 2016Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$46 millionSettlementTop 20 of 2020 · #11

Alan Feldman of Feldman Shepherd secured a $46 million settlement against IKEA on behalf of the family of a 2-year-old boy crushed by a MALM dresser in California, reported at the time as the largest child wrongful-death settlement in U.S. history.

Private mediation · 2020Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$26.1 millionSettlementTop 20 of 2012 · #10

Feldman Shepherd secured a $26.1 million settlement for the family of a man killed and a husband left with a traumatic brain injury when a tractor-trailer hit stopped traffic on Interstate 80 at more than 70 mph.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2012Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Temple University Beasley School of Law
J.D., 2006
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Undergraduate, 1999

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania, admitted 2006
State Bar of New Jersey, admitted 2007
State Bar of New York, admitted 2013

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$907 million · Maddux Family Wins $907 Million Wrongful Death Judgment Against Fugitive Ira Einhorn

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.