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About Chris Playter
Chris Playter is an attorney at Playter Trial Lawyers in Kansas City, Missouri, focusing on employment discrimination and personal injury law, though he handles all areas of civil litigation. During law school, Playter was hired as a law clerk by a small firm and continued working there after graduation, gaining extensive experience before joining Playter Trial Lawyers. He represents individuals who have been wrongfully terminated, injured in auto accidents, or who face other personal injury or employment discrimination claims, and he also assists clients with wills, estate planning, and traffic tickets. In 2016, Playter was selected as a Rising Star, a distinction recognizing only 2.5 percent of lawyers in Missouri and Kansas; he was one of only 20 lawyers selected that year in the Employment Litigation category. Outside of work, Playter enjoys spending time with his family and participating in sports-related activities.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Playter Trial Lawyers
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A Jackson County jury returned $34,130,700 for Christopher Coffee against Randal White, whose blood alcohol content was .20 when he ran a Shawnee, Kansas intersection at 76 mph, and assigned Coffee 20 percent of the fault, leaving a net recovery of $27,304,560.
A Jackson County jury awarded an Independence firefighter and his wife a combined $6.4 million net verdict against an ambulance company after he was hurt keeping a patient from falling off its gurney during a 2017 call. Buddy Montgomery tore his shoulder, herniated a neck disc, and later developed hydrocephalus from a preexisting congenital cyst that the incident triggered. Jurors found Medevac Medical Response 80 percent at fault and Montgomery 20 percent at fault on an $8 million gross award, reducing the recovery to $4.8 million for Montgomery and $1.6 million for his wife's loss of consortium claim. No appeal has surfaced since the January 2026 verdict.
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