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About David Morantz
David R. Morantz is an attorney and partner at Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman, Chtd., where he represents victims of accidents and other forms of negligence. His practice focuses on transportation cases, medical negligence, and product liability. He has represented clients in both federal and state courts and has argued cases before the Kansas Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. David served as president of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association from 2019 to 2020 and received the association's Thomas E. Sullivan Award in 2013 for significant promise as a developing leader. Before law school, David earned a journalism degree from the University of Kansas and worked as an award-winning newspaper reporter for The Associated Press and the Omaha World-Herald for about four years.
That experience sparked his interest in the law. He then earned his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law, where he served as an articles editor on the Kansas Law Review and was honored as a top student in intellectual property law. David joined the firm in 2005 and has been selected for the Super Lawyers list every year since 2011. He is AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Shamberg Johnson & Bergman
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A federal jury in Wichita awarded $23.5 million to a Yellow Freight co-driver left with debilitating injuries after a Swift Transportation driver, impaired by methamphetamine, backed her rig from a rest stop onto U.S. Highway 54 in New Mexico.
After United States Aircraft Insurance Group sat on a $100,000 voluntary-settlement offer for more than a year following a fatal 2013 Kansas plane crash, a Riley County judge held the insurer responsible for the entire $11.5 million wrongful-death judgment entered against its insured.
A Kansas jury awarded $6.5 million after finding Subaru liable for a roof crush defect that left a young man a quadriplegic in a rollover crash, and the Tenth Circuit affirmed the full judgment in a published 1996 opinion.
A Johnson County jury awarded $5.7 million to the family of Kim Yates, a 49-year-old woman who died by suicide three days after AdventHealth Shawnee Mission discharged her despite an initial triage assessment flagging her as high risk, in what records show is the largest wrongful death or medical malpractice verdict in Johnson County history.
A Johnson County jury returned the largest medical-malpractice verdict in the county in more than 25 years after finding a pain clinic and its physician responsible for a spinal MRSA infection that destroyed a patient's quality of life.
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