About Jake Cropper

Jake Cropper is a trial lawyer known for taking on difficult cases and refusing to let insurance companies minimize the lives and injuries of his clients. Since 2024 alone, Jake has recovered more than $40 million in settlements and verdicts for injured people and families. Jake represents clients in serious injury and wrongful death cases involving truck crashes, unsafe property conditions, dram shop liability, dog attacks, and other catastrophic injuries. He has helped resolve cases for $11.25 million, $11 million, $6 million, $4 million, and multiple seven-figure results that provided stability and accountability when clients needed it most.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Rittgers & Rittgers

These results are credited to Rittgers & Rittgers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$10 millionVerdict

A Cincinnati jury awarded $10 million on May 1, 2026, after finding that TriHealth's Good Samaritan Hospital placed 69-year-old Terri Price in a psychiatric unit instead of a medical unit, leaving her without the nursing care and IV antibiotics needed to treat her advancing sepsis.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, Cincinnati, OH · 2026Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$3 millionVerdict

A Hamilton County jury found JACK Cincinnati Casino 100% liable after a 69-year-old patron tripped over a collapsed wet-floor sign that a casino employee had walked past seconds before the fall, fracturing her kneecap and requiring surgery.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, Cincinnati, OH · 2019Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
Verdict

A Warren County jury acquitted Brooke Skylar Richardson on all serious charges, including aggravated murder and involuntary manslaughter, after Charles H. Rittgers and Charles M. Rittgers convinced jurors the newborn had been stillborn.

Warren County Common Pleas Court, Lebanon, OH · 2019Read the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Dayton School of Law
J.D.
Mount St. Joseph University
Undergraduate, 2019

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Ohio, admitted 2023

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