About Nichelle Oxley
Nichelle L. Oxley is a shareholder at Humphrey, Farrington & McClain who manages a varied docket ranging from catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death to toxic exposures, products liability, and complex business disputes. Her accounting background and aggressive litigation approach give clients an advantage in cases with intricate financial and accounting components. She earned her law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2013, where she received the Jurisprudence Award for Academic Excellence and the Russell Goldman Award. She holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and business administration from Graceland University. She is a member of the Kansas City Bar Metropolitan Association, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, the Association of Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City, and the Eastern Jackson County Bar Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Humphrey, Farrington & McClain
These results are credited to Humphrey, Farrington & McClain. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Jackson County jury returned a $108.6 million verdict for the parents of a woman who died from sepsis after her husband's religious group prevented her from receiving medical care during a botched home birth.
Attorneys Kenneth McClain, Jonathan Soper, Chelsea Pierce, and J'Nan Kimak secured $35.72 million in confirmed ERISA arbitration awards for 177 current and former DST Systems employees whose 401(k) profit-sharing plan collapsed after fiduciaries concentrated more than 45 percent of plan assets in a single pharmaceutical stock that lost roughly 94 percent of its value.
A Boone County jury awarded $35.25 million to the family of Anita Gibbs, a Kansas City elementary school principal killed when a CenTra Trucking driver failed to slow for stopped traffic on Interstate 70 in 2006, after Ken McClain of Humphrey, Farrington and McClain used offensive collateral estoppel to limit the trial entirely to damages.
Two Missouri salon workers who spent over a decade using a professional hair-smoothing product the manufacturer marketed as formaldehyde-free settled their product liability claims for $30 million after one developed reproductive cancers and the other gave birth to a child who later developed leukemia.
A Laclede County jury awarded Philip Berger, a Copeland Scroll Compressors worker, $5 million in compensatory and $23 million in punitive damages after he developed hypersensitivity pneumonitis from contaminated cooling fluid. The trial court later granted a new trial on damages, and the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed that order in 2016, so the verdict did not stand.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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