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About Matt Casey
Matt Casey co-founded Ross Feller Casey in 2006 and has obtained more than 240 verdicts and settlements of at least $1 million, including 52 results that each topped $10 million, six of them verdicts. In the past year alone, he recovered more than $110 million in settlements for individual cases. Casey won a $85 million compensatory damages jury verdict in a Philadelphia premises liability case, which was the largest personal injury verdict in the U.S. for 2008 and the largest premises liability verdict in Pennsylvania history. He secured a $32.5 million settlement against Reading Hospital in a cerebral palsy case, a Pennsylvania record as the largest reported medical malpractice settlement in state history according to VerdictSearch. His $40.5 million verdict in 2019 involved a baby with a brain injury from medical negligence.
He also obtained a $23.1 million verdict in a medical malpractice case where a home care nurse's failure to treat an infected catheter led to a bloodstream infection causing bilateral below-knee amputations. Casey also litigated civil cases on behalf of Penn State sex abuse victims and was integral in the $60 million global settlement with Penn State. He holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Casey graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Notre Dame and received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
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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.
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 Chester County jury awarded $18 million (later raised to $19.16 million by the trial judge) after a certified nurse practitioner twice examined a 22-year-old and dismissed her breast lump without ordering imaging, delaying a cancer diagnosis by nine months and forcing a bilateral mastectomy instead of a lumpectomy.
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