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Harding v. K.C. Wall Products, Inc., 250 Kan. 655 (1992)

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

A case of first impression upholding the constitutionality of a statute of repose, specially designed for latent disease cases....

Cerretti v. Flint Hills REC, 251 Kan. 347 (1992)

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Upholding a verdict for the death of a woman by electrocution where damages of over $1 million were awarded....

Sheila A. v. Whiteman, 259 Kan. 549 (1996)

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

The first case to overrule a district court on the award of attorney fees in either a class action or common fund case....

David’s Episcopal Church v. Westboro Baptist Church, 22 Kan. App.2d 537 (1998)

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Review denied by the Kansas Supreme Court, certiorari denied by the United States Supreme Court, establishing for the first time anywhere the rights of privacy of worship as a governmental interest and holding those who would interfere to the standards of a mixed audience....

Long v. Turk, 265 Kan. 855 (1998)

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Establishing the liability of gun owners to exercise the highest degree of care (one of two such rulings in the United States....

Confidential Insurance Bad Faith Settlement

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Against an insurance company for wrongful denial of coverage to its insured. As a result of its denial, the insured was personally exposed to damages in excess of $2.5 million dollars....

$500,000 Wrongful Death Settlement

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

The maximum recoverable against a municipality under Kansas law against a County ambulance service for improperly intubating our client who suffered progressive bradycardia and hypoxia and eventually death....

Confidential Property Damage Settlement

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Against an excavation contractor for their failure to properly close a manhole prior to an extremely heavy rain, allowing massive amounts of rainwater to enter the sanitary sewage system and causing system overload. More than 20 homeowners in the area had their homes infiltrated by raw sewage....

$900,000.00 Personal Injury Settlement

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

For a client who suffered a comminuted tibia/fibula fracture, lumbar fracture and permanent disability as result of an automobile collision....

$1,000,000.00 Personal Injury Settlement

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Against a rancher whose cattle were on a highway at night where one was struck by our client, leading to a consultation with a Lawrence personal injury lawyer, resulting in a closed head injury and permanent disability....