Personal Injury Attorneys in Kansas

Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as one of four co-lead class counsel in the $1.51 billion nationwide settlement against Syngenta, recovering losses for hundreds of thousands of U.S. corn growers, grain handlers, and ethanol producers whose market access to China was cut off after the company prematurely commercialized an unapproved GMO corn trait.

Gray Ritter Graham attorney Don Downing served as one of four court-appointed national co-lead counsel in the Syngenta MIR162 MDL, securing a $217.7 million Kansas jury verdict in 2017 and a $1.51 billion class action settlement in 2018 for more than 600,000 U.S. corn farmers, grain handlers, and ethanol producers.

Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as co-lead class counsel when a Kansas federal jury returned a $217.7 million compensatory verdict against Syngenta, finding the seed company negligent for commercializing its MIR162 GMO corn trait in the United States before China approved it for import, triggering a market collapse that cut off American farmers from one of their largest export buyers.

The Popham Law Firm secured a $57 million settlement on behalf of more than 1,700 Sprint employees who alleged the company's automated performance system unlawfully targeted workers over 40 during a series of mass layoffs -- at the time the largest ADEA class settlement in the District of Kansas.