Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP has secured a $5.8 million jury verdict on behalf of a UC Irvine neurosurgeon and professor who was subjected to years of whistleblower retaliation by the University of California Regents.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Trial lawyers at Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP have secured a $5.8 million verdict for Dr. Mark Linskey, a board-certified neurosurgeon and tenured professor at UC Irvine, in a whistleblower retaliation case against the University of California Regents. The verdict, delivered by an Orange County jury on May 9, 2025, follows a prior $2 million judgment obtained by the firm in 2019 for similar acts of retaliation.
As court records show, Attorneys Mark Quigley and Ivan Puchalt of Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP led the high-stakes litigation, which spanned more than a decade of alleged retaliation after Dr. Linskey raised concerns about patient safety, administrative abuse of power, and systemic failures at the university's medical center.
"This time around, the focus was really on the failure to reinstate Dr. Linskey to the residency program despite a prior court order," said Ivan Puchalt. "The evidence showed that UC Irvine repeatedly failed to comply with that order and continued to sideline a respected physician and educator."
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