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About Burton Haigh
Burton Haigh is a trial attorney at The Accurso Law Firm, P.C., with over two decades of civil litigation experience. He earned his B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1993 and his J.D. from the University of Tulsa School of Law in 1997. Haigh focuses on personal injury, products liability, negligence, insurance coverage, and commercial matters. As first chair, he has tried nearly forty cases to verdict and has secured multiple seven and eight-figure settlements.
He was honored in 2015 in connection with a $10.8 million asbestos wrongful death settlement and received a 2017 Missouri Lawyers Award. In March 2023, he served as co-counsel in Kaelix Pannell v. United Parcel Service Inc., the Clay County case that produced a $65 million verdict for a child who suffered permanent brain injury after his mother was struck by a UPS truck during pregnancy. Haigh holds a Martindale-Hubbell A.V. Rating, received the 2007 Lon O. Hocker Trial Attorney Award, was recognized as an Up and Coming Trial Lawyer in 2010, and held Super Lawyer designation from 2012 through 2020.
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A Clay County, Missouri jury awarded $65 million to a child who suffered a permanent brain injury before birth when a UPS delivery truck struck his mother's car while she was 13 weeks pregnant. With prejudgment interest, the judgment came to roughly $75.3 million, and the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed it in May 2025.
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