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About Deborah Doak
Deborah Doak is an attorney at Brown & Crouppen Law Firm in St. Louis, Missouri, where she has practiced since 2010. She dedicates 100% of her practice to personal injury cases.
Doak's practice areas include auto accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, boat accidents, and bus accidents, along with broader personal injury litigation.
Before joining the firm, she worked in civil and criminal law at Kansas City and St. Louis firms and served as an Assistant Public Defender in St. Louis County.
She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1982 and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri in 1977.
She is a member of the American Association for Justice, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Lawyers Association of St. Louis, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, St. Louis County Bar Association, and Women Lawyers' Association of Greater St. Louis.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Brown & Crouppen
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A St. Louis jury awarded $462 million against trailer maker Wabash National after its defective rear-impact guard failed and allowed a car to slide beneath a trailer on I-55, killing Taron Tailor, 30, and Nicholas Perkins, 23, in 2019.
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.
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