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About Jim Cantalin
Jim Cantalin is a Partner at Brown & Crouppen Law Firm in St. Louis, Missouri. He has over 30 years of experience litigating personal injury matters and joined the firm in 2013.
Cantalin previously served as a partner at a major St. Louis defense firm representing insurance companies before transitioning to plaintiff representation.
He earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from Saint Louis University School of Law, where he served on the Moot Court Team and the Saint Louis University Law Journal. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Saint Louis University.
He is admitted to the Missouri and Illinois bars. He is a Past President of The Lawyers Association and a former Board of Governor for the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. He is also a member of The Missouri Bar, Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers, and National Trial Lawyers.
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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