Brown & Crouppen

A St. Louis jury found trailer manufacturer Wabash National 65 percent at fault and awarded $462 million, most of it punitive, after a defective rear underride guard let a car slide beneath a trailer and kill two young fathers; a judge later cut the total to about $119.5 million.

Brown & Crouppen helped Zachary Patchin's family reach a $5.97 million settlement after an Ice Cream Factory box truck crossed into oncoming traffic in a no-passing zone and killed both drivers on U.S. 50 in Osage County, Missouri.

A federal jury found that a snow-covered crack in a Family Video parking lot caused Rosemarie Waddy's broken ankle, awarding $2 million before a 15 percent fault finding cut her recovery to about $1.7 million.

A St. Louis City jury awarded Tara Straussner $1,168,829 after a city employee driving a concrete truck crossed the centerline and hit her head-on, leaving her with a permanent brain injury, though Missouri's sovereign-immunity cap held the city's payout near $517,000.

Brown & Crouppen attorney Brett Williams resolved a wrongful death claim for $1 million after a Kansas City nursing home resident on a doctor-ordered soft diet choked on a piece of fruit and died.

An 82-year-old passenger fractured her right hip when the car she was riding in turned left into the path of an oncoming SUV near a St. Charles County mall, and Richard Zalasky of Brown & Crouppen settled her claim for the driver's full $250,000 policy limit.

After a speeding dump truck swerved, struck her stopped car and tipped over in front of her, Brown & Crouppen settled Mary Bourne's spinal injury claim for $245,000.

Brown & Crouppen recovered $200,000 for Joshua Klenke, a cyclist who fractured his collarbone after hitting a road depression left by underground plumbing work, with the payment coming from the plumbing contractor's insurer rather than the city.