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About Matt Young
Dr. Matt Young, M.D., J.D., M.B.A., CMQ, is a partner at Ross Feller Casey whose career was shaped in part by losing his father to medical malpractice. He earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his J.D. from Harvard Law School and joined the firm to hold healthcare systems accountable for catastrophic harm. He works on the firm's most complex cases involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death and has directly assisted the founding partners in major recoveries including $35 million for a woman whose uterine infection was mismanaged, resulting in multiple amputations; $32.5 million for a child who sustained a brain injury due to failures to treat maternal infection and fetal distress; $20 million for a newborn who sustained a neurological injury due to medical negligence; $16 million for an infant who sustained a brain injury from a mismanaged viral infection; and $16 million in a wrongful death case involving a treatable form of cancer. Dr. Young is nationally recognized for his work in healthcare quality and patient safety.
He is a National Quality Scholar, board-certified in medical quality (CMQ), a peer reviewer for the Journal of Patient Safety, and a published author in leading medical texts. He graduated with honors from Harvard College with an A.B. in Government and also earned an M.B.A. from the Quantic School of Business and Technology. He is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is a Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine.
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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