About John Kastner
John Kastner is a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated litigation and trial attorney with extensive experience in all stages of civil litigation. John focuses his current practice on representing those injured in catastrophic accidents or because of medical malpractice. Mr. Kastner's prior experience includes representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex products liability, personal injury, and medical malpractice cases. Mr. Kastner has represented businesses in complex commercial disputes and has represented government entities related to alleged constitutional and other violations.
Mr. Kastner has presented continuing legal education to other attorneys on topics such as dram shop laws, preparing cases for trial, and the rules of civil procedure. Mr. Kastner has served as a Judge Pro Tem for Pima County Superior Court and serves on the Local Rules of Practice Advisory Committee for the Federal District Court. Mr. Kastner has been a member of the State Bar of Arizona since 2002 and has practiced law since 1996. He is admitted to practice law before Arizona and Utah state courts, the United States District Court in the District of Arizona and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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.
