About Linda McKenzie
Linda McKenzie is a litigation attorney with extensive experience in all stages of civil litigation. She currently focuses her practice on representation of injured individuals and their families in catastrophic medical malpractice and wrongful death litigation. Ms. McKenzie's prior experience includes representing plaintiffs and defendants in complex personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice cases; civil and administrative matters involving insurance entities and health care providers. Additionally, she has represented health care providers in front of professional boards and counseled health care providers about compliance with federal and state healthcare laws, such as HIPAA, EMTALA, HCQIA, Medicare and Medicaid compliance. Ms. McKenzie has done extensive scholarly research and writing on regulation of health care.
Her work has been published in the Arizona Law Review, the Journal of Law and Health, and the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy. Ms. McKenzie is actively involved in the American Association for Justice and the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association. In addition to representing clients, Ms. McKenzie is a registered nurse (not currently practicing) with eighteen years of experience in maternal-child nursing. Her nursing experience has proved to be beneficial, particularly in representing parties in medical malpractice cases.
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.
