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Staff Report//May 14, 2026//
Attorney
Springfield
Randy Cowherd has handled over 90 jury trials and appeals — some representing Missouri’s largest defense verdicts.
In 2024, he was on a team representing physicians defending a $4.5 million medical malpractice lawsuit alleging a patient died from melanoma due to delay of care. A jury found in favor of the defendants.
And in 2022, a jury sided with Cowherd’s client, CoxHealth in a wrongful death suit in which a father claimed the hospital failed to properly care for his adult son who died after his hospitalization for a perforated colon. It was Missouri’s third-largest defense win that year.
The Missouri Bar honored him with the David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy award in 1997.
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