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About Matthew Birch
Matthew E. Birch is an accomplished trial attorney and partner at Shamberg, Johnson & Bergman, Chtd. Throughout his career, Matt has focused on representing parents and families of children and infants injured by medical negligence and malpractice. With six children of his own, he relates deeply to clients navigating the challenges of raising children with special needs. Matt has been with the firm since 2000, with a period in 2001-2003 during which he served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Dean Whipple, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
Born and raised in Kansas City, he earned his undergraduate degree from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas in 1997, then attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, graduating with distinction. During law school, he served as managing editor of the UMKC Law Review and as a teaching assistant in the legal writing program. Matt is a published author on legal topics and a frequent presenter at legal education seminars. He has been selected for inclusion in the Super Lawyers list on multiple occasions and was named among Missouri Lawyers Weekly's 2010 Up and Coming Lawyers.
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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