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About Grant Davis
Grant L. Davis is a founding partner of Davis, Bethune and Jones, which he established in 2001 alongside Scott S. Bethune and Thomas C. Jones, colleagues he met in law school. Davis represents individuals harmed by negligent or intentional acts, concentrating his practice on plaintiff litigation in serious injury, wrongful death, dangerous products, sexual assault, medical malpractice, insurance bad faith, and railroad injury cases. He earned his law degree from the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law and has served as an adjunct professor of law at that institution. Davis is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Inner Circle of Advocates, a group limited to 100 of the best plaintiff trial lawyers in the United States.
He served as President of the Missouri Trial Lawyers Association in 2008. Best Lawyers in America named him Lawyer of the Year in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016. His career verdicts include a $2.2 billion jury verdict in Hayes v. Courtney (2002), a $160 million verdict in Alcorn v. U.P. (1999), a $750 million settlement in In re Genetically Modified Rice (2012), and a $30 million verdict in McCormack v. Capital Electric (2003).
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A Kansas City jury awarded ovarian cancer patient Georgia Hayes $225 million in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive damages against pharmacist Robert Courtney, who had diluted chemotherapy drugs for profit. The trial judge later reduced the award to roughly $330 million, and Hayes collected almost nothing from Courtney himself, whose assets had been seized by the federal government. Courtney was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, and drug makers Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers Squibb later paid $71 million to settle victims' claims.
A 15-year-old boy went into Arkansas Children's Hospital for surgery to remove the brain tissue causing his seizures. The surgeon opened the wrong side of his head and removed healthy tissue before turning to the correct side. His parents were not told, and learned of it more than a year later during an unrelated examination.
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