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About Lena Daggs
Lena Daggs is a partner at Cutt Kendell & Olson who represents injured victims in personal injury cases including products liability, medical malpractice, catastrophic auto and trucking accidents, sexual assault, and premises liability. She attended the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and graduated with high honors in 2011. While there she was on the Utah Law Review, received the CALI Award for Constitutional Law and Federal Income Tax, was a William Leary Scholar, and was on the National Trial Advocacy Team.
She has obtained significant recoveries for her clients, including a $7.05 million medical malpractice jury verdict for the wrongful death of an 88-year-old man in 2022. She is licensed in Utah and is a member of the Utah Association for Justice and the American Association for Justice. She served as chair of the Utah Association for Justice Women's Caucus in 2022 and sits on the board of Women Lawyers of Utah. She was named Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year in Personal Injury Litigation for 2025.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cutt Kendell & Olson
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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.
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.
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.
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