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About Ted Ruzicka
Ted Ruzicka is a trial lawyer at Davis, Bethune and Jones with a national reputation in sexual abuse survivor litigation and cases involving dangerous products and institutional misconduct. He earned his J.D. from the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law, graduating on the Dean's List, and was inducted into the Order of Barristers for excellence in oral advocacy. During law school he advanced to the regional finals of the National Trial Competition and clerked for Judge James M. Smart, Jr. of the Missouri Court of Appeals. Ruzicka has represented more than 100 survivors of childhood sexual abuse, each with settlements exceeding one million dollars, and has secured a settlement exceeding $20 million in a major institutional sexual assault case.
He has negotiated and resolved more than $200 million in product liability settlements. He is a graduate of the Ross T. Roberts Trial Academy and has been recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 Trial Lawyer. He is licensed in Missouri and Kansas.
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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