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