Gallagher & Kennedy attorneys Patrick J. McGroder III, Robert W. Boatman, Jeffrey T. Pyburn, Mark S. O'Connor, Shannon L. Clark, C. Lincoln Combs and Matthew P. MacLeod form one of the most respected and successful personal injury law teams in Arizona.  Led by Patrick J. McGroder III, Gallagher & Kennedy's personal injury team is committed to representing the rights of victims. Combined, these attorneys have more than a century of trial experience.  Our attorneys have obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts, awards and settlements on behalf of our clients. Mr. McGroder alone has won over $400 million for his clients during his career.  We handle cases related to:

• Catastrophic injury and wrongful death
• Product liability
• Nursing home liability 
• Construction site negligence
• Insurance bad faith
• Dram shop violations
• Catastrophic vehicular liability accidents
• Government liability
• Sexual assault
• Construction accidents
• Fraud and misrepresentation

Our attorneys have litigated some of the highest profile cases in Arizona including Jason Schechterle’s product liability case against Ford for manufacturing defective police cars, and Colby Nelson’s case against Officer Dan Lovelace and the City of Chandler Police Department for the murder of his wife, Dawn Rae Nelson.

Representative successes include:

Product Liability Cases:

• Confidential settlements against auto manufacturers for serious burn injuries and deaths of numerous police officers that resulted from the defective design of fuel systems in police cars.
  
• Confidential settlement for the family of a young man who suffocated in a sleeping bag.
  
• $17 million jury verdict against General Motors for a death caused by a defective transmission.
  
• $3.5 million settlement in vehicular rollover case.
  
• $2.4 million settlement in a defective tire case.
  
• $1.5 million to the parents of an unborn baby due to food poisoning.
  
• Designation as co-lead counsel for all Arizona plaintiffs, and settlement of claims exceeding $20 million in the Arizona Ford/Firestone litigation.
  
• Numerous multi-million dollar settlements for claims against medical device manufacturers and drug manufacturers.
  
• Numerous seven figure settlements in defective tire cases.
  
• Multi-million dollar settlement for Native American child burned in vehicle fire.
  
• Confidential settlement against various footwear distributors for lost hunter who developed frostbite.

Legal Malpractice:

• $8 million settlement against one of the country’s largest law firms for legal malpractice.

Police/Corrections Officers Misconduct:

• Confidential multi-million dollar settlement for the family of a woman killed by a police officer.
  
• $10 million settlement - police negligence.
  
• $4.5 million settlement - corrections/police negligence.
  
• $2.5 million settlement - corrections officer negligence.

Aviation:

• $5 million settlement - private plane crash in Arizona.
• $3.75 million settlement - helicopter crash in Arizona.
• $3 million settlement - private plane crash in Utah.
• $2 million jury verdict - helicopter wire strike case in Globe, Arizona.
• $1.75 million settlement - helicopter wire strike case in Holbrook, Arizona.
• $1 million settlement - helicopter crash in California.

Nursing Home/Elder Abuse:

• Several significant settlements for victims of nursing home and elder care abuse.
• $7 million settlements involving multiple deaths at a nursing home.
• $1.5 million settlement for wrongful death of a 90 year old female.
• $1.2 million settlement - failure to treat pressure ulcer.

HMO Professional Negligence:

• $5.5 million settlement - failure to diagnose brain dysfunction.
• $3 million verdict - failure to diagnose a vertebral osteomylitis.
• $2 million verdict - failure to diagnose a compartment syndrome.
• $2 million settlement - failure to diagnose systemic disease.
• $1.7 million settlement involving birthing injury.

DRAM Shop/Bar Liability Cases:

• $1 million settlement regarding an infant death Dram Shop Liability.
• $2 million settlement against a liquor establishment.
• $1.8 million settlement against several liquor establishments.

Gas Explosion Cases:

• $7 million settlement resulting from a gas explosion.
• $3 million settlement resulting from gas explosion.
• $1.5 million settlement resulting from a gas explosion Motor Vehicle/Motorcycle/Commercial Trucking Collisions.
  
• Numerous multi-million dollar recoveries for victims, including:
• $7.5 million settlement for a couple struck in a head-on collision.
• $4.5 million settlement for a motorcyclist suffering a head injury.
• $3.75 million verdict for two decedents in an auto crash.
• $3.5 million for victim of a bus collision.
• $3 million for two victims of an intersection collision.
• $2.75 million settlement for blind man struck by a bus in a crosswalk.
• $2.0 million for wrongful death victim of a bus collision.
• $1.9 million for a motorcyclist who suffered non life threatening traumatic injuries.
• $1.75 million for a victim of a car crash who suffered a compression fracture.
• $1.1 million settlement against taxi company whose driver killed a motorcyclist.
• $1 million settlement for family killed by commercial trucker on drugs.

Government Liability:

• Multi-million dollar settlements in cross over/barrier cable cases.
• $7.5 million class action settlement for police overtime pay.
• $4.5 million settlement against State of Arizona Re: road design.
• $2.0 million settlement for urban waterway wrongful death.
• $2.0 million settlement in school district negligence.

Sexual Assault:

• Confidential settlement for sexual assault victim against security company for failure of alarm system to call police.
  
• Confidential settlement against charter school for child molested by school teacher.

Construction Accidents:

• $1 million settlement for family of worker killed by falling steel pipe.
  
• Miscellaneous confidential settlements for other injured construction site workers.

Fraud and Misrepresentation:

• Turned $200,000 settlement into $2.3 million after discovering insurance carrier and attorney fraud regarding amount of insurance available for claim.
  
• Obtained $1.7 million for family against automobile dealership that failed to disclose that a truck it sold as “new” had been stolen, damaged and fitted with used, defective tires.

Bad Faith:

• Confidential settlements with major insurers for bad faith handling of insured’s claims.