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About Mark Hoffman
Dr. Mark A. Hoffman, M.S., M.D., J.D., LL.M., M.Bioeth., M.B.A., is a partner at Ross Feller Casey with a career spanning law, medicine, and military service. He is an accomplished litigator, a skilled pediatric, general, and transplant surgeon, and a decorated Army officer. During the Gulf War, he served as a top surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center. At Ross Feller Casey, he handles medical malpractice, medical device, and pharmaceutical product litigation.
His extensive scientific and surgical expertise facilitates the litigation of complex medical and product liability cases. His work as lead or co-counsel has resulted in recoveries of more than $150 million for clients, including $25 million in a wrongful death case involving failure to diagnose a postoperative arrhythmia; $20 million in a wrongful death case involving a postoperative chest infection; $20 million for failure to timely deliver a baby with fetal distress leading to cerebral palsy; and $19 million in a living-donor transplantation case involving failure to diagnose an intestinal perforation leading to sepsis and leg amputation. He received his undergraduate degree with honors from Amherst College, his M.D. from Columbia University's Vegalos College of Physicians & Surgeons, his J.D. and Master of Bioethics degrees from the University of Pennsylvania's Carey Law School and Perelman School of Medicine respectively, and his LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple University Beasley School of Law.
He trained in general surgery at Harvard's Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and in pediatric surgery at Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts bars.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Ross Feller Casey
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A Philadelphia jury awarded $85 million to a University of Pennsylvania medical student left disabled after falling 18 feet into an open Trigen Energy manhole at 19th and Walnut Streets, the largest personal injury verdict in the United States for 2008.
Joel Feller and Matt Casey of Ross Feller Casey represented seven of the 26 survivors who reached a global civil settlement with Penn State University totaling $59.7 million, the largest single-firm contingent in the proceedings.
A Philadelphia jury awarded Andrea Tate $44.1 million after the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania stopped monitoring her blood-clotting levels mid-treatment, allowing heparin to build to a dangerous concentration that caused a massive brain hemorrhage following routine tumor surgery.
Ross Feller Casey secured a $32.5 million settlement against Reading Hospital after its labor and delivery team failed to recognize signs of intra-amniotic infection and delayed a C-section, leaving a boy born in 2018 with permanent hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
A York County jury awarded James Spangler a record $23.87 million after neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Krzeminski inserted a screw into his spinal cord during a routine back procedure at WellSpan York Hospital and kept operating despite active monitoring alarms signaling catastrophic nerve damage.
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