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About Louis Accurso
Louis C. Accurso is the founder of The Accurso Law Firm, P.C., which he established in 1988. He received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Accurso focuses on civil litigation spanning personal injury, products liability, negligence, insurance coverage, and commercial matters. He has tried cases to verdict in State and Federal Courts across eight states and has been a speaker at numerous seminars on personal injury, products liability, and insurance topics. Over the course of his career, Accurso and his firm have obtained verdicts and settlements exceeding $300 million, including more than 40 individual recoveries of $1 million or more.
In March 2023, he served as lead plaintiff counsel in Kaelix Pannell v. United Parcel Service Inc., in which a Clay County jury returned a $65 million verdict for a child who sustained permanent brain injury after his mother was struck by a UPS truck while pregnant. He holds a Martindale-Hubbell A.V. Rating, has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2008, and has been recognized as a Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyer since 2008. He received the Lon O. Hocker Trial Attorney Award in 1990 and is a Board of Governors member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys.
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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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