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About Matthew Healey
Matthew S. "Matt" Healey is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin and a member of the firm's Workers' Compensation Department. He joined the firm in 2015 and is a North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law.
After graduating law school, Healey began his career at one of the largest corporate defense firms in North Carolina, but decided he wanted to represent injured workers rather than deny their benefits and transitioned to plaintiff workers' compensation practice.
Healey earned his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame and his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law.
His recognitions include Best Lawyers in America for Workers' Compensation Law every year since 2013, including Best Lawyers Workers' Compensation "Lawyer of the Year" for Raleigh in 2015, 2017, and 2022. He was named a North Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Star (2010-2013) and Super Lawyer (2014-2016).
Proven verdicts and settlements at Law Offices of James Scott Farrin
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Farrin co-lead counsel Gary Jackson won an $8 million class settlement for roughly 6,500 residents forced from their homes by the 2022 ammonium nitrate fire at the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant, with a separate $4.5 million for affected businesses.
A Johnston County jury awarded $5.1 million to the family of Joan Drake, killed when a driver going 98 mph struck her car as she turned into a Clayton Walmart, after Farrin attorneys Coleman Cowan and Donald Clack tried the case without putting on a single medical bill.
A mother and her two teenage daughters were seriously hurt in an October 2018 head-on crash on North Carolina Highway 49 with a company truck driven by an unlicensed man. After the injury claims were resolved by agreement, a federal court held that the construction company's commercial excess policy covered the accident and that interest was owed on top. The Fourth Circuit affirmed in August 2025, and the family's total recovery reached $2,861,458.
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