About Karen Crouch
Karen Crouch is a trial lawyer in Langdon & Emison's personal injury and complex torts practice, representing individuals and families seriously injured in Missouri, Kansas, and the surrounding region. Her practice focuses on civil litigation on behalf of plaintiffs in catastrophic personal injury and complex tort matters. She gained hands-on courtroom experience through the Criminal Practice Clinic at the Callaway County Prosecutor's Office, and through an externship at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Jefferson City, where she drafted jury instructions, sentencing memoranda, and research memoranda.
As a summer clerk at Langdon & Emison, she drafted motions, briefs, petitions, and proposed court orders across multiple jurisdictions. Karen received several honors for her advocacy skills, including the Order of the Barrister, the Missouri Lawyers Media 'Leaders of Tomorrow' award, and the Fred L. Howard Prize for Excellence in the Advancement of Advocacy. She graduated magna cum laude from Creighton University and earned her J.D. from the University of Missouri School of Law 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.
