Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe

A Callaway County jury awarded Beth Mayhew and her husband $82.3 million after a truck driver hit their vehicle on I-70 while driving with both feet on the dashboard and holding an iPad to watch videos.

A Platte County jury returned a record $70 million verdict after an eight-year-old boy died and his six-year-old sister was seriously injured when a distracted driver rear-ended their grandparents' car in a highway construction zone.

A jury awarded nearly $39 million after a New Prime tractor-trailer jackknifed on icy Interstate 40 and triggered a multi-vehicle pileup that killed four people, including two members of a Texas family.

A Jackson County jury awarded $37.5 million to Steven Holdeman, who was left a paraplegic after a semi-truck rear-ended his car on Interstate 435, finding Philip Stratman 99 percent at fault for stalling his vehicle in the center lane.

An arbitrator awarded $32.4 million to the families of three people killed when a Kansas City Fire Department engine ran a red light at 50 mph through the Westport entertainment district in December 2021; Tim Dollar of Dollar, Burns, Becker and Hershewe represented the family of Michael Elwood.

Jennifer Britt was struck by an intoxicated wrong-way driver on Interstate 29; after American Family declined to participate in binding arbitration, an arbitrator awarded $5,998,027 including $4 million in punitive damages, and the insurer lost its later bid to challenge the award in court.

Tim Dollar and Tim Becker secured a confidential settlement for the family of a 10-year-old Kansas boy fatally struck by a 400-pound flight information sign at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport during a $200 million renovation.