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As a lawyer with over 20 years experience, Mark Streed has been an advocate for good and decent people in their struggle to get fair treatment from insurance companies and other powerful corporate interests. Mr. Streed has successfully represented clients with devastating injuries and economic losses throughout the seven county Metro area, the State of Minnesota, and western Wisconsin. Whether in the courtroom, office, his client’s home, or on the telephone, Mr. Streed and his experienced staff represent clients with a compassionate heart and a willingness to listen to their concerns.
Faced with laws that unfairly restricted the rights of injured citizens, Mr. Streed has challenged those laws by taking his client’s causes to the Minnesota Court of Appeals and Minnesota Supreme Court, where he advocated for the needed changes in the law and achieved appellate court decisions that changed those laws, for the benefit of his clients and many others.
In cases where insurance companies have refused to accept responsibility or even try to understand the nature of his client’s claims and damages, Mr. Streed has helped his clients turn low-ball settlement offers into meaningful jury awards, e.g.: verdicts of $245,000 and $440,000 in Dakota County; a verdict of $800,000 in Washington County for a client who was no longer able to work in his chosen profession as a skilled and successful automotive technician because of his injuries; a verdict of $82,000 in Anoka County for a single mother of three young sons; and verdicts of $155,000 and $290,000 in Stearns and Burnett County (WI) for working men whose physical abilities to work had been permanently affected by serious injuries.
Mr. Streed helped the mother of an eight year old boy, who was killed while crossing a busy street, overcome an insurance company’s opinion that the boy had “darted out” and was completely at fault. The Ramsey County jury concluded the driver of the car, not the little boy, was primarily at fault and awarded Mr. Streed’s client damages in excess of the insurance company’s policy limits. With Mr. Streed’s representation, a Hennepin County school bus driver, whose case had been rejected by other lawyers, achieved justice and vindication with a jury verdict of $225,000. In western Minnesota, Mr. Streed represented a Sibley County farm wife and mother of two children whose husband/father had been killed in a collision involving a semi-tractor trailer. The resulting wrongful death verdict against the semi driver and his insurance company was the largest verdict in that county’s history and made a significant difference in the family’s ability to continue to farm. Those are some examples of how Mark Streed and his excellent staff have made a positive difference in the lives of clients needing help.
As a Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, Mr. Streed’s experience, proven results for his clients and achievements have earned him the designation as a Civil Trial Specialist, certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and the Minnesota State Bar Association. Since 2002, he has annually been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” by the Minnesota Journal of Law and Politics.
Mark Streed resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife, Mary Dorsey Streed, and their three children.
Education:
JD 1985, University of Minnesota; BA 1982 cum laude, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN.
Admitted:
1985 Minnesota; 1985 United States District Court, District of Minnesota; 1998 Wisconsin.
Employment History:
1984-present; Meshbesher & Spence; Trial Lawyer and Shareholder. 1999 Managing Partner.
Professional Associations:
MTLA; MSBA; ATLA; National College of Advocacy (Advocate); MTLA Board of Governors 1999-Present; Certified as Civil Trial Specialist by MSBA (1996) and National Board of Trial Advocacy (1999).
Community Involvement:
Board of Directors: Meshbesher and Spence, LTD.; Woodbury Chamber of Commerce; Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association; Eagan Athletic Association - youth coach (baseball and basketball); Easter Lutheran Church - youth instructor and program director; American Red Cross; Concordia College (Moorhead, MN) - National Alumni Association Past President.
Significant Appellate Decisions
Schleicher v. Lunda Contstruction Co., 416 N.W.2d 311 (Minn. 1987)
Thomas v. Western National Ins. Co., 562 N.W.2d 289 (Minn. 1997)
Engler v. Illinois Farmers Ins. Co., 706 N.W.2d 764 (Minn. 2005)
Published Articles:
- "The Dreaded Common Enterprise Defense-A Sleeping Monster Rears Its Ugly Head." Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Spring, 1997.
- "Ideas for Use in Closing Argument." Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Fall, 1997.
- "The Tractor-Trailer Accident Case: Developing a Liability Claim." Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Summer 1998.
- "Federal Safety Regulations Concerning Underride Guards, Reflective Devices and Log Books-How to Use Them and How to Develop a Liability Claim." Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Spring 2001.
- Editor: "Desk Reference to Personal Injury Statutes." 2nd Edition, 2001. MTLA.
- "MTLA Members Show Signs of Life Beyond the Law." Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Fall, 2001.
- "Engler v. Wehmas, and the Scope of Recovery in NIED . . . and the Rest of the Story." Minnesota Trial Lawyer. Spring, 2002.
- “Trial Lawyers, Public Servants, Heroes,” Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Spring 2004.
- “Abraham Lincoln: The Evolution of a Trial Lawyer,” Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Fall, 2004.
- “The Lawyer Known as ‘Honest Abe’,” Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Winter, 2005.
- “Lincoln’s Civil War Constitutional Crisis,” Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Summer, 2005.
- “Interviewing the Injured Worker’s Co-Employee Fact Witness,” Minnesota Trial Lawyer, Fall, 2005.
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