About Chloe Ketchmark
Chloe Ketchmark is an attorney at Ketchmark & McCreight, P.C. who focuses on appellate work alongside Scott McCreight, handling post-trial motions and appellate briefs. She grew up watching her father, founding partner Michael Ketchmark, try cases, and that foundation shaped her commitment to plaintiff-side trial work. She earned her undergraduate degree in pure and applied mathematics from Boston University, then graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served on the Kansas Law Review Executive Board. Following law school, she clerked for a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
Before joining the firm, she worked at Legal Aid of Western Missouri, where she represented clients who could not afford legal counsel. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in biostatistics at Brown University. She has participated in several major trial matters at the firm.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Ketchmark & McCreight, P.C.
These results are credited to Ketchmark & McCreight, P.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Georgia Hayes, a Kansas City area ovarian cancer patient, sued pharmacist Robert Courtney after learning he had diluted the chemotherapy drugs used in her treatment. A Jackson County jury found Courtney liable and awarded Hayes $225,571,439 in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive damages, the first of hundreds of similar suits against Courtney to reach trial. The trial judge later found the award excessive and cut it by remittitur to $330,071,439, and that reduced judgment stood. Hayes herself and the case reporter covering the verdict both said she was unlikely to ever collect a significant portion of it.
A Clay County, Missouri jury awarded $76 million to the family of David Ford, a 48-year-old delivery driver crushed by moving machinery while dropping off vehicle seats at Ford Motor Company's Kansas City Assembly Plant. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the verdict in full in 2019.
A Monroe County jury awarded $58.6 million, including $56.6 million in punitive damages, to James Graham, a Hannibal food plant worker who developed the irreversible lung disease bronchiolitis obliterans after years of exposure to Givaudan butter flavoring chemicals. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment in full in April 2026.
A woman sued a commercial property owner for wrongful death after her child was shot and killed on the property in Kansas City, alleging the landowner had failed to provide adequate security measures and precautions. The case was handled under a confidentiality agreement that keeps the parties' identities and the property's location out of the public record. It was resolved in Jackson County Circuit Court on May 31, 2024, under the caption Confidential v. Confidential, for $27,000,000. Missouri Lawyers Media, which reported the settlement and reached plaintiff's counsel for comment, later listed it as the top settlement in its Top Verdicts and Settlements roundup for 2024.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
