About Summer Davidson
Summer Davidson represents individuals and families in personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from dangerous and defective products, auto and commercial vehicle collisions, and unsafe premises. Her practice focuses on product liability, premises liability, motor vehicle and trucking accidents, ATV and UTV accidents, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and municipal and governmental liability. Before joining Langdon & Emison, Summer spent five years in the Kansas City, Missouri City Attorney's Office, defending the city in tort litigation, workers' compensation matters, contract disputes, and other cases. That experience gives her insight into how government entities and insurance carriers evaluate and defend injury claims.
She began her legal career in private practice handling family law matters. Missouri Lawyers Weekly named her an Up & Coming attorney in 2022 and honored her with the Women's Justice Award for Litigation Practitioner in 2026. Summer serves on the board of House of Hope in Lexington, Missouri, a nonprofit supporting survivors of domestic and sexual assault.
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.
