About Brennan Delaney
Brennan Delaney is dedicated to helping clients deal with the tragedy of a catastrophic accident and has recovered over $100 million for clients throughout his career. As a former law clerk for both a trial judge and an appellate judge, Brennan spent considerable time in the courtroom, giving him a strong understanding of both trial practice and the appellate process. He practices in product liability, premises liability, and dram shop liability.
Brennan has received recognition from the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys as Top 10 Under 40 Attorney for Missouri, the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers for Missouri, and Best Lawyers in America from 2021 through 2026. He has also been recognized by Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers from 2015 through 2026. Brennan is an active member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and has served on the Law Alumni Board for his alma mater, the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Langdon & Emison
These results are credited to Langdon & Emison. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Chittenden County jury returned $43,101,162 against Johnson Controls, the seat manufacturer, after a Vermont woman was left with a catastrophic spinal-cord injury when the single-sided recliner mechanism in her car seat collapsed during a rear-end collision she should have survived. The trial court entered final judgment at $36,948,123, and the appeal was later dismissed by stipulation.
A Jackson County jury held Ford Motor Company liable for a defective fuel tank design after three members of a Missouri family burned to death when their F-150 pickup ruptured and ignited during a 1999 highway collision.
A 1993 federal jury awarded $11.3 million to the sons of Beverly Garner, a passenger killed when a defective fuel pump ignited an engine fire in her 1985 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer, a verdict whose admissibility fight over a former GM insider's testimony traveled all the way to a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the plaintiffs' favor.
A Cook County jury awarded locomotive engineer Christopher Cravatta $5.3 million under FELA after he slipped on oil-coated flooring and an icy step-down gap at Chicago's Union Station, suffered a disc tear requiring spinal fusion, and was permanently disqualified from railroad work.
A federal jury awarded $4.5 million to U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Aaron Eckerberg after a commercial van driver for Inter-State Studio and Publishing Co. blew a stop sign on a Missouri highway and slammed into his truck, causing a fractured thoracic vertebra and traumatic brain injury that ended his career as a combat helicopter pilot.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
