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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....

LaShure v. Felts, 40 Kan. App. 2d 1001, 197 P.3d 885 (2008)

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Holding that jury instructions in medical malpractice cases should be fair and uniform....

Confidential Personal Injury Settlement

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

For a client who sustained multiple gunshot wounds as a result of a mentally unbalanced individual obtaining access to an assault rifle....

Confidential Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death Settlement – Against a Radiologist

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Against a radiologist who failed to identify a bladder mass on a CT scan. Our client died as a result of the failure to identify the transitional cell carcinoma on a CT scan....

Confidential Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death Settlement – Against a Physician’s Assistant

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Against a physician’s assistant staffing an emergency department who discharged our client after failing to recognize she had sepsis syndrome as a result of Influenza. A....

Confidential Legal Malpractice Settlement

January 31,2019
Awards, Settlements & Verdicts

Against a lawyer who was negligent in representation of the client in an underlying medical malpractice case....

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 Medical Malpractice/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....