Patrick Malone
VerifiedAbout Patrick Malone
Patrick A. Malone is the founding partner of Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C. in Washington, D.C., a nationally recognized trial lawyer focused on medical malpractice, product liability, and serious personal injury cases. Before practicing law, he was an award-winning investigative journalist with United Press International and the Miami Herald, where his medical reporting series 'Dangerous Doctors' was a 1980 Pulitzer Prize finalist. After earning his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1984 - where he won the Harlan Fiske Stone and Potter Stewart Prizes for moot court, the C. LaRue Munson Prize, and edited the Yale Law Journal - he clerked for U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell. In more than 40 years of practice he has represented clients seriously injured by negligent doctors, hospitals, manufacturers, and corporations, and is a frequent author and lecturer on advocacy, cross-examination, and patient safety.
Notable case results
Patrick Malone won an $8.85 million verdict against the maker of Tylenol after a former White House aide lost his liver to a drug he took exactly as directed.
A D.C. Superior Court jury awarded $8.35 million after an orthopedic surgeon failed to recognize the loss of blood flow to an 82-year-old patient's leg following a knee replacement, leaving the limb to die and require an above-knee amputation.
A Montgomery County jury found a Maryland dermatology practice liable for the death of 47-year-old attorney Richard Semsker, whose melanoma went untreated for two years.
A 40-year-old store manager was left permanently impaired after a radiologist dismissed signs of a carotid blockage on her MRI, and a D.C. jury awarded $5,774,156 for the malpractice that preceded her stroke.
A premature newborn suffered a permanent chemical burn and stunted growth in her right ankle after an IV line leaked caustic fluid into the surrounding tissue, and a District of Columbia jury awarded her $3.6 million.
A Prince George's County jury found an undercover officer liable for fatally shooting Prince Jones, an unarmed Howard University student stopped in a case of mistaken identity, and awarded his young daughter $2.5 million.
Patrick Malone won a $1.4 million wrongful-death verdict against a gynecologist who missed a patient's precancerous condition, then took an appeal that limited how much a nonsettling doctor may deduct for a codefendant's settlement.
Benedi v. McNeil PPC (major pharmaceutical product-liability verdict)
Gambino v. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital ($3.6 million verdict)
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.