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About Brett Simon
Brett Simon is a member of Langdon & Emison's Complex Torts division, practicing out of the firm's Independence office with a focus on catastrophic injury cases and a full array of personal injury matters. Brett was previously an associate at a large defense firm in Kansas City, where he developed and executed nationwide defense strategies for clients in product liability matters, and now uses that knowledge of defense strategies to fight for clients who have been catastrophically injured or have lost a loved one due to defective products. He was recognized by the 2023 Best Lawyers in America as part of their 'Ones to Watch' feature. Brett graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and was a member of the trial advocacy team and national moot court team.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Langdon & Emison
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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.
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