About Daniel Back
Daniel Back grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and attended Bluefield University in Virginia on a baseball scholarship, graduating magna cum laude with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and Psychology in 2004. He earned his J.D. from Baylor University School of Law in 2007, where he won the American Association for Justice National Mock Trial Championship (224 competing teams). His practice focuses on personal injury and wrongful death, including motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, product liability, and train accidents. In a two-year span he secured over $30 million in settlements and trial verdicts, including a $3,277,455 medical malpractice verdict that stands as the largest trial verdict in Cowley County history, involving a physician who over-prescribed opioids.
He has been named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 from 2016 through 2022, to the Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers Rising Stars list from 2013 through 2018, and to the Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers list from 2018 through 2022. He was also named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 in 2023. Beyond his practice, Back serves as an adjunct professor at Wichita State University, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice and trial advocacy.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Hutton & Hutton Law Firm, LLC
These results are credited to Hutton & Hutton Law Firm, LLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A federal jury in Kansas found obstetrician Dr. Nasreen Shah 90 percent at fault, and Central Kansas Medical Center of Larned 10 percent at fault, for the brain injury a second-born twin suffered at delivery in December 1984. The jury returned its verdict on November 15, 1990. Total damages exceeded $23 million, and judgment was entered against Dr. Shah for her share, $21,244,824.90. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the judgment in 1993.
A federal jury in Wichita awarded $15 million to a couple whose infant daughter was left with permanent brain damage after Wyeth's DPT vaccine, a 1987 verdict the Tenth Circuit later reversed and sent back for a new trial.
A Wichita jury awarded $11.5 million against International Playtex after finding its super-absorbent tampons caused the toxic shock syndrome death of a 21-year-old Kansas woman, with the full $10 million punitive award later reinstated by the Tenth Circuit.
A Kansas jury found Wesley Medical Center 100 percent at fault for a delayed diagnosis of Stage IV non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that followed missed findings on a staff physician's annual chest X-rays, and awarded him $1,245,000. The Kansas Supreme Court held the evidence supported some hospital fault but not total fault, and ordered a new trial in 1998.
A Sedgwick County jury found a Wichita family physician liable for diagnosing pneumonia in a man who died the next day of a large pulmonary embolism, awarding $982,143 in economic damages and nothing for noneconomic loss. The Kansas Court of Appeals reversed in 2010 after a juror said the verdict was a compromise reached to break a liability deadlock, and remanded for a new trial.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
