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Top Verdicts & Settlements 2020: Other verdicts & Out of State

Staff Report//February 15, 2021

Top Verdicts & Settlements 2020: Other verdicts & Out of State

Staff Report//February 15, 2021

Other verdicts 2020

NOTE: Typically our annual Verdicts & Settlements focuses on cases valued at $1 million or more. But 2020 wasn’t a typical year. Given the small number of jury trials that occurred during the pandemic, we have opted to list all reported jury cases here that aren’t already featured elsewhere in our section.

Type Value Date Type of Action Venue Caption Plaintiffs’ Attorneys
V $750,000 11/4/2020 Product Liability U.S., Western District of Missouri Williams v. Implus Footcare David L. Marcus, Bartle & Marcus, Kansas City; Aaron W. Moore, Carrollton, Texas
V $641,547* 2/26/2020 Civil Rights U.S., Eastern District of Missouri Robinson v. Hawkins Nicholas J. Dudley, Hollingshead & Dudley, St. Louis
V $450,000 3/11/2020 Invasion of Privacy Boone County Coffman v.  Concannon Brody Kempton and Mark Kempton, Kempton & Russell, Sedalia
V $450,000 8/13/2020 Premises Liability U.S., Western District of Missouri Stillman v. Walmart Stores East I, LP Amanda Blackwood and Jeffrey Blackwood, Montee Law Firm, St. Joseph
V $181,495* 9/23/2020 Employment Greene County Simmons v. Country Fresh Inc. Rob Curran, Curran Law Firm, Springfield; Joe Backer, Backer Law Firm, Independence

* Includes post-trial award of attorneys’ fees and costs

Out of state

Missouri Lawyers Media welcomes submissions from Missouri-licensed attorneys who won cases in other states’ courts. Such cases are included in our Verdicts & Settlements database but are not listed in our annual rankings. Here are some of the largest cases we tracked from outside Missouri in 2020.

Type Value Date Type of Action Venue Caption Plaintiffs’ Attorneys
V $7,064,500 2/13/2020 Business/Commercial U.S., Kansas Pipeline Productions Inc. et al. v. The Madison Companies LLC et al. Jack McInnes, McInnes Law, Prairie Village, Kansas; William Skepnek, Skepnek Law, Lawrence, Kansas; Anthony Bonuchi, Bonuchi Law, Kansas City
S $7,000,000 7/6/2020 Motor Vehicle Collision Ohio State Court Confidential Craig A. Schlapprizzi, Schlapprizzi Attorneys at Law, St. Louis; Charlie M. Rittgers, Rittgers & Rittgers, Cincinnati, Ohio
S $6,000,000 11/24/2020 Motor Vehicle Collision Leavenworth County, Kansas May v. Confidential Thomas R. Davis, Brown & Crouppen, Kansas City
S $3,500,000 7/31/2020 Motor Vehicle Collision U.S., South Carolina Confidential Chris Finney, Finney Injury Law, Brentwood; Kenneth E. Berger, Law Office of Kenneth E. Berger, Columbia, South Carolina; Mark Bringardner, Joye Law Firm, Charleston, South Carolina
J $3,353,778 3/30/2020 Wrongful Death Wyandotte County, Kansas Granados v. Wilson Jared Rose, The Law Office of Jared A. Rose, Kansas City
J $1,527,064 11/2/2020 Medical Malpractice U.S., Kansas Doe P.M. v. United States Danny Thomas, Michael Kilgore, Scott Britton-Mehlesch, Margaret Goodman and Nichelle Oxley, Humphrey, Farrington & McClain, Independence
S $1,300,000 1/16/2020 Wrongful Death Johnson County, Kansas Veach v. Fromholtz Michael C. Rader, Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader, Leawood, Kansas
S $1,000,000 10/27/2020 Premises Liability Ohio State Court Confidential Craig A. Schlapprizzi, Schlapprizzi Attorneys at Law, St. Louis; Matthew Nakajima and Charles M. Rittgers, Rittgers & Rittgers, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

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