About David Brose
David Brose is recognized as one of the top lawyers in the country dedicated to product liability and trucking accident litigation. He has represented clients as lead attorney in matters involving a wide range of products, including automotive vehicles, tires, aircraft, boats, and cranes, among other types of defective products. As a former partner in a civil litigation defense firm, David defended Fortune 500 companies in personal injury and commercial litigation with an emphasis on product liability and trucking cases, and now puts that understanding of defense tactics to work on behalf of victims. David serves in the 2025-26 bar year as Plaintiff Vice Co-Chair for the American Bar Association's Product Liability Committee within the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section.
He has been honored by Best Lawyers in America, Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers, and the National Trial Lawyers. He earned his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he was a member of the Missouri Environmental Law and Policy Review and received the C.A.L.I. Award in Corporate Taxation.
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.
