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About Randall Kinnard
Randall Kinnard has practiced personal injury and medical malpractice law in Nashville for more than 40 years, building a record of results that includes a $55 million verdict for sportscaster Erin Andrews and a $22 million jury verdict that stood as the largest individual personal injury verdict in Tennessee history. He is the only Tennessee lawyer in the Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only group of the top 100 plaintiffs trial attorneys in the United States, as characterized by The Washington Post. He is certified in Civil Trial Law (since 1995) and Civil Practice Advocacy (since 2012) by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and is Board-Certified as a Medical Malpractice Specialist by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys.
Before law school, he attended West Point and served two tours in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, earning the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, Purple Heart, Bronze Star for Valor, and Air Medal. He has been named to The Best Lawyers in America since 1993 and to Mid-South Super Lawyers every year since 2007, and received Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year in Nashville for Personal Injury and Product Liability in 2025. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and is a past president of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Nashville jury awarded sportscaster Erin Andrews $55 million in March 2016 after finding that West End Hotel Partners bore 49 percent of liability for a stalker who secretly filmed her through a tampered peephole at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University in 2008.
A federal jury in Chattanooga awarded $22.2 million to a Franklin County couple after an epidural catheter placed for post-surgical pain control triggered a spinal bleed that left 62-year-old Bette Donathan permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
Part of a surgical retractor was left in Cynthia Yebuah's abdomen during a 2005 kidney removal and stayed there for eight years, looping around her small bowel. A Nashville jury awarded her family $4.5 million. Tennessee's cap on noneconomic damages cut it to $750,000, and the Supreme Court held that the cap is one limit shared by an injured patient and her spouse rather than one each.
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