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About Johnny Simon
Johnny M. Simon is a nationally recognized trial attorney whose practice focuses on catastrophic injury, wrongful death, product liability, medical malpractice, and institutional failures. He is licensed in Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Florida, and is frequently asked to serve as lead counsel in courts across the country. His results include a $745 million wrongful-death verdict against a nitrous-oxide manufacturer and a $462 million product-liability verdict against Wabash Trailer Company in a trucking underride-guard case, along with individual wrongful-death settlements reaching $50 million. His verdicts have been named the Largest Verdict in Missouri for 2023 and 2024 by Missouri Lawyers Weekly.
He is a frequent speaker on trial strategy in medical negligence, trucking, auto crash, and civil rights cases. He graduated from Marquette University with a degree in business, finance, and economics in 2011, and earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 2015, before joining his father's firm. He has been named a Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers Rising Star and has received Best Lawyers Ones to Watch recognition since 2021.
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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