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About Cutt Kendell & Olson

Cutt Kendell & Olson is a Salt Lake City personal injury firm founded in 1997 that handles catastrophic injury cases including medical malpractice, product liability, trucking accidents, and wrongful death. The firm limits its caseload by choice so its trial attorneys can give each client individualized attention, and has recovered more than 50 million for seriously injured clients.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Cutt Kendell & Olson

$3 millionSettlement

A Salt Lake City mother called 911 asking for help getting her autistic 13-year-old son to a hospital during a separation-anxiety crisis. An officer chased the unarmed boy over a fence and fired eleven shots from 15 to 20 feet away. Six hit him. The city paid $3 million, the largest such settlement in its history.

U.S. District Court, District of Utah · 2022Civil RightsRead the full story →
$2.5 millionVerdict

A Weber County jury awarded $2.5 million in non-economic damages ($1.875 million after a 25 percent comparative-fault reduction) to the widow of a Utah man fatally struck by a New Prime semi-truck near his broken-down vehicle on the I-15 shoulder. The Utah Court of Appeals later reversed the verdict and remanded for a new trial.

Second District Court, Ogden Department (Weber County), UT · 2019Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$1.45 millionSettlement

Utah's Department of Transportation paid $1.45 million to resolve wrongful-death and injury claims brought by survivors and families of four Chinese tourists killed when a tour bus rolled over on a freshly resurfaced section of State Road 12 near Bryce Canyon in September 2019.

Third District Court, Salt Lake City, UT · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Proven verdicts and settlements from other Salt Lake City firms

Parker & McConkie Personal Injury Lawyers
Parker & McConkie Personal Injury Lawyers
$52.2 million · $52.2 Million Wrongful Death Verdict for the Family of Slain Polygamist Leader Rulon Allred
Christensen & Jensen, P.C.
Christensen & Jensen, P.C.
$4 million (as modified on appeal; $5 million gross jury award) · Her Children Agreed to Withdraw Life Support Because the Doctors Told Them She Was Terminal. She Was Not, and She Would Probably Have Recovered.
Dewsnup King Olsen Worel Havas
Dewsnup King Olsen Worel Havas
$16,000,000 default judgment ($4,000,000 compensatory plus $12,000,000 punitive) · She Was 14 When Warren Jeffs Married Her to Her 19-Year-Old Cousin Over Her Objections. Twelve Years After She Sued, a Utah Judge Entered $16 Million Against Him and His Church.
Kesler & Rust
Kesler & Rust
$15,007,508.45 (verdict; on appeal in the Tenth Circuit) · Her Father Called for Help With Her Addiction. She Died of Dehydration in the Jail, and the Physician Assistant Did Not Come Until She Had Been Dead Twelve Hours.
Mortensen & Milne
Mortensen & Milne
$25 million · A Tilt Wand Would Have Cost the Manufacturer Nothing Instead of the Cord. A 3-Year-Old Got Tangled in It, and a Salt Lake Jury Awarded $25 Million.

Attorneys at Cutt Kendell & Olson

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