Marshall Kaufman

Louisville, KY47 years experienceAdmitted 1978

About Marshall Kaufman

Marshall Kaufman is a founding member and Attorney at Kaufman & Stigger, PLLC in Louisville, Kentucky, with over 48 years of personal injury law practice. The firm was founded in 2001.

Kaufman earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law in 1978 and his Bachelor of Science from the University of Tennessee in 1975. He is admitted to practice in Kentucky.

A Louisville native, Kaufman has recovered millions of dollars for thousands of clients, with numerous settlements exceeding $1 million in cases involving automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, pedestrians, medical malpractice, and wrongful death claims. He has been an AV-rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell since 1999 and named a Kentucky Super Lawyer (2011-2026).

Proven verdicts and settlements at Kaufman & Stigger, PLLC

These results are credited to Kaufman & Stigger, PLLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Jefferson County jury awarded Douglas Burnett $2,268,878.20 after he fell from an unfinished commercial staircase in Shelbyville, Kentucky, when a handrail gave way and dropped him ten feet onto concrete. The jury put 80 percent of the fault on the lumber company that supplied and supervised the framing, 15 percent on the general contractor and 5 percent on Burnett. The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld the liability findings in 2009.

Jefferson Circuit Court, Louisville, Kentucky · 2007Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$1.2 millionVerdictTop 20 in Kentucky · #18

A Jefferson County jury awarded $1,200,626 to a Fort Knox Staff Sergeant whose left arm was permanently impaired after an AmeriGas propane delivery truck drifted into his lane and clipped his motorcycle on Blevins Gap Road in September 2005.

Jefferson Circuit Court, Louisville, KY · 2009Motorcycle AccidentsRead the full story →
$261,520Verdict

A Jefferson County jury took eight minutes to award a retired florist $261,520 after a head-on collision on River Road in Prospect left him trapped in his vehicle and seriously injured, with the verdict coming in a UIM coverage dispute against his own insurer.

Jefferson Circuit Court, Louisville, KY · 2023Car AccidentsRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

University of Tennessee
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kentucky, admitted 1978
Louisville Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association
Kentucky Justice Association
American Justice Association
Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Awards & recognition

AV Preeminent (Martindale-Hubbell since 1999)
Kentucky Super Lawyer (2011-2026)
NAOPIA Top 10 Personal Injury Attorney in Kentucky

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