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About Scott Vezina
Scott Vezina concentrates his practice on representing individuals who have suffered catastrophic brain or spinal cord injuries caused by medical negligence and product defects. He is a licensed pilot who also represents victims of aviation accidents and complex product liability cases. His results as co-lead or co-counsel include a $78.5 million verdict in a Philadelphia cerebral palsy case; a $32.5 million settlement (a Pennsylvania record) for a cerebral palsy case involving a brain injury at birth; a $30.5 million verdict in a Georgia cerebral palsy case; and a $26 million verdict in Luzerne County for a man who lost his right leg above the knee due to medical malpractice. He has also secured significant confidential settlements in multiple aviation crash cases. Before becoming a plaintiff's attorney, Vezina represented medical malpractice insurers, hospital chains, physician groups, and medical device companies.
He served as Special Assistant Attorney General for Louisiana from 1997 to 2004 and has been an adjunct professor in Torts at Regent University School of Law and St. Thomas University School of Law. He holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Vezina graduated from Holy Cross with a B.S. with distinction, graduated from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, and received an LL.M. from Regent University School of Law. He is licensed in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and multiple federal district courts and courts of appeals.
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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