About Mark Quigley
Mark T. Quigley has spent three decades representing whistleblowers and workers in wrongful termination, retaliation, employment discrimination, and business litigation. He obtained a $39 million jury verdict against UC San Diego for a doctor who was fired after exposing diversion of a $10 million research donation, recognized by the L.A. Daily Journal as one of 2023's Top Verdicts. He secured a $26.6 million verdict in a whistleblower retaliation and breach of contract case and a $5.8 million verdict against UC Irvine for a tenured neurosurgeon who raised patient safety concerns.
He also won a $7 million verdict in the Bikram Choudhury sexual harassment whistleblower trial and a $10 million settlement in Pedowitz v. UC Regents after an eight-week trial. In the area of lottery fraud, he obtained a $7.982 million verdict in Farraj v. Circle K and a $12 million verdict in Chae v. Kim. He received a Giant Slayer Award from The Recorder in 2015. He holds a B.A. from Kings College (1976) and his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law (1985).
Proven verdicts and settlements at Greene Broillet & Wheeler
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Acting as outside trial counsel for Los Angeles County, the firm then known as Greene, Broillet, Taylor, Wheeler and Panish helped recover approximately $3.3 billion for the county through the 1998 nationwide Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
A Los Angeles jury ordered General Motors to pay $4.9 billion after a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu's rear-mounted fuel tank ruptured and burned six occupants in a rear-end crash, the largest US personal-injury verdict at the time.
A Sacramento jury awarded $73 million, including $50 million in punitive damages, after a Goodyear tire tread separation caused a Ford E-350 church van to flip four times on I-5, killing two passengers and injuring two others.
A Los Angeles jury awarded $58,137,361 to a construction worker who suffered third-degree burns over 75 percent of his body when a defective O-ring on a Caterpillar scraper caused flammable hydraulic fluid to spray onto a hot engine, producing what was then the largest single-plaintiff personal-injury verdict in California history.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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