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About Elizabeth Lenivy
Elizabeth S. Lenivy focuses her practice on product liability, medical malpractice, and personal injury cases on behalf of plaintiffs in Missouri and Illinois. Before joining Simon Law in 2016, she worked in insurance defense at a local firm, gaining insight into the strategies used by defendants and insurers. Since joining the firm, she has tried multiple cases to verdict, including complex medical malpractice and product liability matters, and has argued before the Missouri Court of Appeals and submitted briefs to the Missouri Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit. Her results include a $7 million wrongful-death medical malpractice settlement and multiple additional medical malpractice settlements ranging from $1 million to $6.75 million.
She holds leadership positions in several bar organizations, provides pro bono services through Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, and serves as a board member of the Gateway Korea Foundation, representing the Korean American community in St. Louis. As a first-generation American and the first attorney in her family, she takes pride in her dual Korean and American heritage. She earned her law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law, admitted in 2015 in Missouri.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Simon Law Firm
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A St. Louis County jury returned a $745 million verdict against nitrous oxide distributor United Brands and local head shop Coughing Cardinal after finding the companies conspired to sell Whip-It! canisters as an inhalant to a driver who passed out behind the wheel and fatally struck 25-year-old Marissa Politte outside her workplace.
A Champaign County jury returned a $535 million verdict, the largest known single-plaintiff verdict in Illinois history, against a psychiatric facility that failed to prevent the rape of a 13-year-old female patient by another adolescent resident.
A St. Louis jury awarded $462 million against trailer maker Wabash National after its defective rear-impact guard failed and allowed a car to slide beneath a trailer on I-55, killing Taron Tailor, 30, and Nicholas Perkins, 23, in 2019.
A four-day trial ended with a $109.2 million verdict against LaFarge North America after Simon Law proved the supplier knowingly sold Gleeson Asphalt base rock that did not meet the grade it was labeled and paid for.
A St. Louis jury awarded $105 million to tire technician Randy Dorman after a Bridgestone/Firestone RH5 multi-piece truck wheel explosively separated during inflation, fracturing his face, both arms, and wrist, while internal company documents showed Firestone engineers had tracked nearly 100 similar incidents for decades.
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