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About Mark DeFossez

Mark E. DeFossez has been in litigation practice for over 42 years. He represents clients in cases arising from medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, industrial accidents, dangerous products, and other cases involving serious injury or death. Mark has obtained the highest civil jury verdicts in Franklin County (2000 and 2001), Licking County (1998), and Gallia County (2008). His results include an $8.5 million verdict for a worker who lost a portion of his arm in a workplace accident. He has been recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer since 2013.

Proven verdicts and settlements

The Donahey Law Firm served as Ohio counsel for a mother whose seven-year-old daughter died after alleged medical negligence by a physician and staff at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, and secured an appellate ruling preserving the family's choice of nationally prominent trial co-counsel over the hospital's objection.

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Columbus OH (appeal decided by Ohio's Tenth District Court of Appeals) · 2016Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Boston College Law School
J.D.

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Massachusetts, admitted 1985
State Bar of Ohio

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