About Ryan Weltz

Ryan D. Weltz is a workers' compensation attorney at Edelman & Thompson in Kansas City, licensed to practice in both Missouri and Kansas.

Before joining Edelman & Thompson, Weltz spent two decades as a workers' compensation defense attorney representing insurers and employers. This background gives him insight into claims investigation and insurer practices, which he now leverages to represent injured workers in Missouri and Kansas.

He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas Law School, where he earned first place in the school's annual Moot Court competition. He also worked in the university's free Legal Aid Clinic during law school.

Weltz has successfully appealed workers' compensation cases through the Missouri Court of Appeals and both the Kansas Court of Appeals and Supreme Court.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Edelman & Thompson Law Firm

These results are credited to Edelman & Thompson Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$5 millionSettlement

A drywall installer who fell through a hole cut in a home's subfloor, suffering a thoracic burst fracture and incomplete paraplegia, settled with the project developer and a drywall delivery company for $5 million.

Jackson County Circuit Court (Independence, MO) · 2023Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$2 millionSettlement

Edelman & Thompson secured a $2 million federal settlement for Derrick Houston, a Boone County jail inmate left paralyzed in custody, then was cleared of any role in the client's later fraud and repaid the insurer $100,000.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri · 2017Civil RightsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of Kansas

Awards & recognition

First Place, University of Kansas Annual Moot Court Competition

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$15.28 million · $23.5 Million Verdict Against Swift Transportation for Meth-Impaired Driver

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.