Top Verdicts & Settlements 2021: Out of State

Staff Report//February 4, 2022//

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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 2021.

Type	Value	Date	Type of Action	Venue	Caption	Plaintiffs’ Attorneys
J	$1,500,000	08/31/2021	Real Estate	U.S. Court of Federal Claims	Jackson v. United States	Meghan S. Largent and Lindsey S.C. Brinton, Lewis Rice, St. Louis; Mark F. (Thor) Hearne and Steven F. Davis, True North Law, Clayton; James H. Hulme and Laurel LaMontagne, Arent Fox, Washington, D.C.
S	$9,000,000	04/26/2021	Motor Vehicle Collision	King County, Washington	Confidential v. Swift Transportation Co.	Tim Dollar and Josh Becker, Dollar Burns Becker & Hershewe, Kansas City
S	$6,900,000	07/02/2021	Medical Malpractice	U.S., District of Kansas	John Doe P.M. v. United States	Danny Thomas, Michael Kilgore, Margaret Goodman, Scott Britton-Mehlisch and Nichelle Oxley, Humphrey, Farrington & McClain, Independence
S	$15,500,000	07/19/2021	Personal Injury	Confidential	Confidential	Anthony S. Bruning, A.J. Bruning and Ryan Bruning, The Bruning Law Firm, St. Louis
S	$2,700,000	08/01/2021	Personal Injury	Wyandotte County, Kansas	Confidential	Reed Martens, Monsees & Mayer, Kansas City
S	$1,420,566	09/21/2021	Personal Injury	U.S., Pennsylvania	Confidential v. National Football League	Paul D. Anderson, Humphrey, Farrington, & McClain
S	$1,800,000	09/22/2021	Personal Injury	Johnson County, Kansas	Confidential	Matt Swift and Michael Pospisil of Pospisil Swift, Kansas City
S	$7,000,000	09/27/2021	Medical Malpractice	Illinois	Confidential	Rachel Roman, Zevan Davidson Roman, St. Louis
S	$3,200,000	10/14/2021	Motor Vehicle Collision	Riley County, Kansas	Reed v. Hood HTG Air PLG Electric Inc.	Scott Bethune, Wes Shumate and Jared Brown, Davis, Bethune & Jones, Kansas City
S	$37,500,000	10/28/2021	Motor Vehicle Collision	Confidential	Confidential	Craig Schlapprizzi, Schlapprizzi Attorneys at Law, St. Louis; Ben Baker, Beasley Allen, Montgomery, Alabama; Greg Shevlin, Cook, Bartholomew, Shevlin, Cook & Jones, Belleville, Illinois
V	$8,261,875	06/30/2021	Product Liability	Parish of Orleans, Louisiana	Aaron v. Ford Motor Co.	Daniel P. Blouin, Donald P. Blydenburgh, Todd Neilson, Paul Dix, Shane F. Hampton and Casey Cira, Simmons Hanly Conroy, New York and Alton, Illinois; Lindsey A. Cheek and Jeanne L. Arceneaux, Cheek Law Firm, New Orleans, Louisiana
V	$25,000,000	09/21/2021	Product Liability; Wrongful Death	Salt Lake City, Utah	Mahe v. Century Blinds Inc.	James T. Corrigan and James D. O’Leary Jr., O’Leary Shelton Corrigan Peterson Dalton & Quillin, St. Louis; Alan Mortensen and Lance Milne, DKOW, Salt Lake City, Utah
V	$41,467,849	11/19/2021	Personal Injury	Johnson County, Kansas	Gilbert v. Hatfield	Stephen M. Gorny and Christopher D. Dandurand, The Gorny Law Firm, Kansas City