The POWER List 2023: Amy Collignon Gunn
Staff Report//June 14, 2023//
Amy Collignon Gunn, whose practice ranges from medical malpractice to product liability mass torts, won one of the largest verdicts of 2021 when a jury awarded $10 million to a man whose spinal surgeon operated on him twice.
Other cases include a $5.75 million settlement for a toddler who suffered brain damage after losing blood during heart surgery, as well as a $325,000 verdict for a woman injured on a slide at St. Louis’s City Museum.
Among other roles in the legal community, Gunn is a member of the Missouri Supreme Court’s Civil Rules Committee.
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