About Kaylea Knappenberger
Kaylea Knappenberger joined Hutton & Hutton Law Firm, LLC in August 2021 after completing her J.D. at the University of Kansas School of Law. A fifth-generation Kansan, she graduated from Wichita Collegiate School in 2014 and earned a B.A. in English, with minors in Political Science and Law and Legal Reasoning, from Southern Methodist University in 2017 as a Second Century Scholar. While at SMU she served as a Congressional intern in Washington, D.C. and worked in political fundraising and campaign consulting in Texas. She returned to Kansas to attend KU Law, where she participated in the Women in Law Society and a summer study abroad program in Ireland, and completed internships in criminal law, municipal law, and tort law before joining the firm.
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.
