About Channing Dutton
Channing L. Dutton has represented injured workers and accident victims in Iowa since 1980. He has lectured before attorney groups statewide on a wide range of topics in workers' compensation and personal injury law. Beyond his litigation practice, Channing has spent years writing and speaking throughout Iowa about climate change impacts, appearing before civic groups, city governments, school boards, and state agencies. He represented future generations in the Filippone environmental case (Filippone ex rel.
Filippone v. Iowa Dept of Nat. Res., 829 N.W.2d 589 (Iowa Ct. App.
2013)) and handled 2019 water quality litigation in Polk County. In 2019, Washington Governor Jay Inslee publicly recognized Channing's 15-year advocacy on climate issues at the Iowa State Fair. Channing received his J.D. from Drake University Law School in 1979 and his B.A. in English from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1977.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Lawyer, Lawyer, Dutton, Drake & Conklin, LLP
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An eastbound SUV drifted onto the shoulder of Iowa Highway 141 east of Sloan on November 22, 2014, overcorrected, and crossed into the westbound lane, hitting a pickup head on. Five people died, among them Myrna Malone, 70, who was riding beside her husband Larry. The at-fault driver carried too little liability coverage to pay for the losses, so Larry Malone, individually and as administrator of his wife's estate, sued the family's own underinsured motorist carrier, American Family Mutual Insurance Company, for breach of contract in Polk County. The jury's verdict form, filed September 21, 2017, valued the loss of spousal consortium at $1,300,000 and the loss of parental consortium at $250,000 for each of the couple's two adult children, $1,800,000 in all. No appeal followed.
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