Matt Casey

Matt Casey

Founding Partner at Ross Feller Casey
Philadelphia, PA
Workplace InjuryProduct LiabilitySlip & FallMedical MalpracticeWrongful Death

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.

Notable case results

$85 millionVerdict

Jury verdict in a Philadelphia premises liability case, the largest personal injury verdict in the U.S. for 2008 and the largest premises liability verdict in Pennsylvania history

$32.5 millionSettlement

Against Reading Hospital, a Pennsylvania record as the largest reported medical malpractice settlement in state history

$40.5 millionVerdict

For a baby who suffered a brain injury from medical negligence

$36.4 millionSettlement

In a wrongful death case involving an oil refinery explosion at Motiva Enterprises

$45.5 millionSettlement

In a hospital critical care case

$23.1 millionVerdict

Jury verdict for a woman who lost both legs below the knee due to a home care nurse's negligence

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Workplace Injury
Product Liability
Slip & Fall
Medical Malpractice
Wrongful Death

Education

Georgetown University Law Center
J.D.
University of Notre Dame
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania

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