About Carlo Mercaldo
A native Tucsonan, Carlo joined the Mercaldo Law Firm in the Spring of 2012 as a partner and shareholder. Before joining the Mercaldo Law Firm, Carlo spent three years in public practice in Washington, D.C. Carlo served as Deputy Chief of Staff for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of the General Counsel from 2009 to 2011. With DHS, Carlo managed the legal review of issues concerning the department's numerous sub-components and agencies on behalf of the department's leadership. Carlo also represented DHS in two different White House initiatives focused on civil rights.
In 2011, Carlo moved to the Department of Justice, where he served as Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria, prosecuting bank fraud, drug trafficking, immigration violations, criminal conspiracies, as well as many misdemeanor offenses. There, Carlo participated in numerous felony jury trials. Previously, Carlo worked for several years at a large firm in Phoenix where his practice focused on the representation of plaintiffs in matters involving medical malpractice and personal injury, as well as in breach of contract cases and real estate transactions.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Mercaldo Law Firm
These results are credited to Mercaldo Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Pima County jury awarded a Tucson teenager and his parents $9,143,500 in March 2007 after he was struck at 15 in the crosswalk outside Mountain View High School. The jury put 79 percent of the fault on the driver, 20 percent on Pima County, which operates the road, and 1 percent on the teenager. The county's share came to about $1.8 million. The teen suffered life-threatening injuries, including nearly seven weeks in a coma.
A Pima County jury awarded Sharon King $5.29 million after she lost her arm following shoulder replacement surgery at Oro Valley Hospital, where the operating surgeon mistakenly tied off her axillary artery and the neurovascular bundle supplying the limb.
A Pima County jury awarded Amanda Hoover $4 million, sixteen times what Banner-University Medical Center Tucson had offered to settle, after a laparotomy sponge left in her abdomen during a cesarean section worked its way through the wall of her colon.
A 14-year-old boy riding his bicycle on East Broadway in Tucson was struck and killed on Jan. 12, 2008 by a drunk driver whose lane ended at a road-widening gap the city had left unfinished. His parents sued the driver, the city and a restaurant that had served her. The family settled with the city in 2012 for $2 million and a public naming, after a 2010 jury trial and an appeal.
Tucson Medical Center and a physician gave James Monaco a radioactive phosphorus 32 dose meant for a different condition, raising his leukemia risk and leaving him with post-traumatic stress disorder. A Pima County jury awarded the Monacos $1.5 million. The Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed the verdict and judgment in 1999.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
