About Dan Shelton
Dan Shelton, a native Oklahoman, completed his undergraduate education at Oklahoma State University in 1977, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. Mr. Shelton attended the University of Arizona School of Law where he graduated with a Juris Doctorate degree in 1981. During law school he participated in the Moot Court Program and was an instructor in administrative law in the College of Business and Public Administration. Mr. Shelton has been a member of the Oklahoma and the Arizona Bar Associations since 1982 and is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court in the Western and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma and the District of Arizona, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for both the Ninth and Tenth Circuits. Mr. Shelton is a member of the American Association of Justice and the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Shelton has represented plaintiffs in personal injury matters since 1982. Since 1996, he has almost exclusively devoted his practice to the representation of plaintiffs injured as a result of medical malpractice. Mr. Shelton has earned the designation of a Certified Specialist in the area of Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation bestowed by the State Bar of Arizona Board of Legal Specialization. Additionally, Mr. Shelton is an A-V rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubble, the highest possible rating of level of professional excellence and ethical standards based on the independent evaluations of judges and lawyers in the legal community.
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.
