About Patrick Martucci
Patrick Martucci is a Partner at Johnson, Vorhees and Martucci. He earned a B.A. with Highest Honors from the University of California, Davis in 1990 and a J.D. cum laude from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1993. Martucci handles serious injury and wrongful death cases, car accidents, trucking accidents, motorcycle accidents, medical negligence, construction injuries, dangerous property, defective products, and insurance claims. He has been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers as a Top 100 Lawyer from 2015 through 2022 and as a Top 25 Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyer in 2022. He holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating and was named Man of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in 2000.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Marcel Bonetti, 73, a chef who had cooked for Playboy Clubs, actor Kevin Costner, singer Tom Jones and former President Jimmy Carter, died in October 2016, days after an uncomplicated umbilical hernia repair. Two days after the operation he went to an emergency room with severe abdominal pain, and emergency physician Dr. Peter McCarthy diagnosed a common post-operative ileus without ordering blood work, a CT scan or a surgical consult. Bonetti kept getting worse until a CT scan two days later showed bowel ischemia; he was septic by the time he reached emergency surgery and died in intensive care that day. His family sued McCarthy and the emergency staffing company that employed him for wrongful death, and in October 2019 a St. Charles County jury awarded them $1,000,000.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
