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About John Carroll
John S. Carroll is an associate attorney at Davis, Bethune and Jones. He grew up in Sedalia, Missouri, in a legal family, and earned his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Missouri Columbia in 2013. He received his J.D. from the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law in 2016, where he was a Research Editor on the UMKC Law Review, a member of all journal staff, and received the 1L Outstanding Client Counselor award. Carroll clerked at the firm following his first year of law school and joined as an associate after passing the bar.
His practice covers personal injury and family representation, railroad crossing accidents, Federal Employers Liability Act cases, product liability, auto accidents, tractor-trailer litigation, medical malpractice, and class action work. Thomson Reuters has listed him as a Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2019, and the National Trial Lawyers Association named him a Top 40 Under 40 attorney beginning in 2020. He was inducted into Who's Who in America in 2021 and is a graduate of the KCMBA Bar Leadership Academy.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Davis, Bethune & Jones, L.L.C.
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Georgia Hayes, a Kansas City area ovarian cancer patient, sued pharmacist Robert Courtney after learning he had diluted the chemotherapy drugs used in her treatment. A Jackson County jury found Courtney liable and awarded Hayes $225,571,439 in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive damages, the first of hundreds of similar suits against Courtney to reach trial. The trial judge later found the award excessive and cut it by remittitur to $330,071,439, and that reduced judgment stood. Hayes herself and the case reporter covering the verdict both said she was unlikely to ever collect a significant portion of it.
A St. Louis jury awarded $28 million in compensatory damages and $149 million in punitive damages to Shannon Dugan, a New Jersey sheriff's deputy who was sexually assaulted by a Hyatt security guard who used his master key to enter her hotel room while she slept. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the full award in December 2024.
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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