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About Joseph Frank
Joseph A. Frank is a Partner at Brown & Crouppen Law Firm in St. Louis, Missouri, with over 30 years of legal practice experience.
Frank spent his first nine years practicing under the mentorship of his father, attorney John J. Frank. He has successfully handled hundreds of personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death cases.
He earned his Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1990 and his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Missouri Columbia in 1987.
He is admitted to the Missouri Bar. He served as President of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (2014-15), on the Board of Governors of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (1996-2016), and as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Solo and Small Firm Committee (2012-16).
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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