About Jeff Stickle

Jeff Stickle is an attorney at Price Benowitz LLP with more than 20 years of experience handling workers' compensation and personal injury matters in Maryland and the District of Columbia. He specializes in representing police and fire personnel injured on the job and in workplace mental health injuries, with a track record of recovering millions of dollars for his clients.

Stickle earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he received a certificate from the Health Law program and served as Articles Editor of the Journal of Health Care Law and Policy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from Binghamton University. After law school he clerked for the Honorable Marvin Kaminetz of the Circuit Court for St. Mary's County, Maryland.

Stickle chairs the Bar Association for Montgomery County's Workers' Compensation Section, is a member of the Maryland Association for Justice, and serves as Volunteer General Counsel to the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP

These results are credited to Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$25 million sought

Price Benowitz, with co-counsel Ben Crump, filed a $25 million wrongful death suit for the father of Rolin Hill, who died in 2024 after Virginia Beach jail deputies restrained and beat him during a mental health crisis.

Virginia Beach, Virginia · 2026Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

A large tree fell onto a moving car on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and trapped the driver, Marcelino Cruz Leiva. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging the National Park Service should have found and removed the decayed tree. After a four-day bench trial in December 2023, Judge Amit Mehta entered judgment for Cruz Leiva on his negligence claim in the sum of $5 million on May 7, 2024.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington · 2024Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2017Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2017Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Binghamton University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Maryland
State Bar of District of Columbia
Bar Association for Montgomery County (Workers' Compensation Section Chair)
Maryland Association for Justice
Rockville Volunteer Fire Department (Volunteer General Counsel)

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Washington firms

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$6.17 Million Verdict for Skier Brain-Injured in Fall Off Unmarked Drop-Off at Massanutten Ski Resort
Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP
Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP
$5.5 billion · J&J Agrees to Pay at Least $5.5 Billion to Resolve 76,000 Talc-Cancer Claims
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP
$20 Million Judgment Against U.S. for Driver Paralyzed When Smithsonian Bus Ran Red Light
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
$17.11 million · $17.1 Million Verdict After Missed Ectopic Pregnancy Kills Young DC Mother
Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
$8.35 million · Record $8.35 Million D.C. Verdict After Knee Surgery Cost an 82-Year-Old His Leg

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.