About Michael Serra
Michael Serra is an experienced litigator in state and federal courts who joined Langdon & Emison in 2015 from the Kansas City defense firm Baker Sterchi Cowden and Rice LLC, where he focused on product liability, premises liability, financial litigation, automotive litigation, and constitutional law. He brings a commitment to representing individuals going up against large corporations and plays a key role in all phases of litigation for cases involving defective vehicles and products, electrical shock injuries, railroad accidents, and other instances of negligence. Michael has regularly developed and implemented complete discovery plans for various types of lawsuits, including written discovery, third-party discovery, and depositions. He has been honored by Best Lawyers in America, National Trial Lawyers, and Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers. Michael graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he was a member of the Iowa Law Review, and earned his undergraduate degree from Iowa State University.
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.
