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About Jeff Burns
Jeff Burns is one of the foremost truck crash attorneys in the country and the first attorney in Missouri to earn Board Certification in Truck Accident Law through the National Board of Trial Advocacy, one of the first 23 attorneys in the United States to hold that credential. His practice focuses on complex commercial trucking cases against carriers, brokers, shippers, and logistics providers. Beyond litigation, Jeff has served as National Transportation Counsel for Parents Against Tired Truckers (P.A.T.T.) since the mid-1990s, sat on the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board Truck and Bus Safety Committee, and has been appointed by the Secretary of Transportation to the National Freight Advisory Committee. He is a former chair of the American Association for Justice Truck Litigation Group and a board member of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (CRASH). Jeff has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2010 and in Super Lawyers since 2005.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe
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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 Jackson County jury awarded $40 million on Nov. 1, 2023, to the family of Charles Mabie, a 52-year-old man killed when a driver on PCP, traveling over 100 mph, struck his car from behind at a red light in Independence, Missouri. The defendant had admitted liability before trial, so the jury decided only damages. The award rested on the loss of Mabie's relationship with his wife and two children.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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