About Mitchell Kohl
Mitchell Kohl holds both an M.D. and a J.D., bringing clinical medical knowledge directly into personal injury and medical malpractice cases. A Nebraska native, he earned his B.S. in Biological Sciences summa cum laude from Arizona State University, his medical degree from Creighton University School of Medicine after completing a Family Medicine residency, and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society for excellence in patient care during his residency.
Before joining Rensch and Rensch, Mitchell served as a Deputy District Attorney in Colorado's 18th Judicial District, where he led the Speed Contest Task Force and prosecuted thousands of cases from traffic offenses to serious felonies. He also worked at a large personal injury firm in Colorado, at McKeen and Associates in Detroit, and at Kline and Specter in Philadelphia, applying his medical expertise to complex injury and malpractice cases. He is a Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine (FCLM) and is admitted to practice in Nebraska, Colorado, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Rensch and Rensch
These results are credited to Rensch and Rensch. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
The Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed a $34,000 jury verdict for Terry W. Pitt, an Omaha chef who sustained a 20-to-25-percent permanent impairment to his body as a whole after a Checker Cab struck his vehicle while he was making a left turn near 22nd Street and Chandler Road in Bellevue.
The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a post-verdict judgment for the defense and reinstated a $25,000 jury award for a patron beaten at an after-hours Ranch Bowl dance, holding that a venue with three fights per night cannot call a restroom attack unforeseeable.
The Nebraska Court of Appeals affirmed a three-judge panel's ruling that Gloria Montoya, a Tyson Foods worker, was permanently and totally disabled as a result of injuries sustained on the job, rejecting the company's appeal in full.
The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a permanent total disability award for a truck driver whose 2009 rollover on an Interstate 680 on-ramp in Omaha combined with pre-existing mental and cognitive impairments left him unable to compete in any regular branch of the labor market.
The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a directed verdict for the defense in Mary Cohan's delayed breast-cancer diagnosis case, ordering a new trial against the radiology and OB/GYN providers responsible for misreading her 2009 mammogram.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
