Rachel Weinhaus

Attorney at Brown & Crouppen
Kansas City, MO16 years experienceAdmitted 2009

About Rachel Weinhaus

Rachel Weinhaus is an attorney at Brown & Crouppen Law Firm focusing on complex personal injury litigation. She represents clients in personal injury claims, employee benefits, and Social Security disability matters.

Her practice areas include personal injury, auto accidents, brain injury, medical malpractice, product liability, premises liability, workers' compensation, wrongful death, and disability benefits.

Weinhaus earned her Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2009, where she was a Dean's Select Scholar. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Antiquities from Missouri State University in 2006 as a Board of Governors Scholarship recipient.

She is admitted to the Missouri and Kansas bars. She is a member of The Missouri Bar, Kansas Bar Association, Junior League of Springfield (Publications Committee Chair), Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and the City of Springfield Traffic Advisory Board.

She received the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association President's Award in 2019.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Brown & Crouppen

These results are credited to Brown & Crouppen. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$119.5 millionVerdictTop 20 in Missouri · #10

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.

City of St. Louis Circuit Court · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$5.97 millionSettlement

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.

Franklin County Circuit Court, Missouri · 2022Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$1.7 millionVerdict

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.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis) · 2024Slip & FallRead the full story →
$1.16 millionVerdict

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.

St. Louis City Circuit Court, Missouri · 2025Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$1 millionSettlement

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.

Jackson County Circuit Court, Missouri · 2019Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Missouri State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri, admitted 2009
State Bar of Kansas
The Missouri Bar
Kansas Bar Association
Junior League of Springfield
Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association
Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys

Awards & recognition

Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association President's Award (2019)
Dean's Select Scholar (SLU Law)
Board of Governors Scholarship (Missouri State University)

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.