About Isabella Crutchfield
Isabella Crutchfield is a member of the firm's complex torts team, assisting legal teams at Langdon & Emison in personal injury matters nationwide. Her practice focuses on product liability, truck accident litigation, and a full array of personal injury matters. While at UMKC Law School, she was champion of the Last 1L Standing Trial Competition, received Best Direct Examination distinctions, and was an active member of the school's national championship mock court team.
Before becoming an associate attorney, she served as a legal assistant at the firm, assisting with research and drafting across various jurisdictions, drafting motions, briefs, petitions, and discovery, and worked on the mass torts team handling the Zantac, Bair Hugger, and Paraquat MDLs. Isabella is a National Military Trial Competition Champion and CALI Award recipient. She earned her J.D. from UMKC in 2025.
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.
