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About Steve Kherkher
Steve Kherkher is a founding partner and 36-year trial lawyer who has represented plaintiffs in over 40 states across catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, commercial trucking, products liability, toxic torts, and premises liability matters. He co-founded Kherkher Garcia with Jesus Garcia in 2019 after a career that included a $200 million pharmaceutical verdict in Philadelphia in 2005 (the Fen-Phen docket), an $11 million wrongful death verdict in 2012, and multiple eight-figure verdicts in trucking and oilfield cases. In 2024, Steve and Kevin Haynes recovered $100 million for burn victims of a pipeline explosion and $90 million for a family in a wrongful death arising from a commercial vehicle collision. Steve also spearheaded multiple Monsanto lawsuits, obtaining multi-million-dollar judgments including a $46.5 million verdict. Judges, opposing counsel, and fellow trial lawyers consider him an industry leader and retain him to co-counsel cases nationwide.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Philadelphia jury in May 2005 awarded two women a combined $200 million for heart-valve injuries caused by Wyeth's fen-phen diet drugs, with Steve Kherkher of Williams Bailey (now Kherkher Garcia) leading the trial, before a judge granted Wyeth's post-trial motion and the case resolved through a confidential settlement.
A St. Louis jury found Monsanto liable for polychlorinated biphenyl contamination that caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma in three plaintiffs, awarding $46.5 million in the first PCB cancer case of its kind tried to verdict in St. Louis.
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