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About Kevin Kauffman
Worked in the U.S. District Court of Missouri Western District for the Honorable David P. Rush Member of the UMKC Law Review while in law school, and participated in the Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition In training since he was five years old for his dream job as an attorney, Kevin has developed a keen interest in understanding complex legal issues. He devotes his practice to civil litigation, with an emphasis on complex pharmaceutical, medical device actions, and medical malpractice. Kevin grew up in Queretaro, Mexico. He moved to the United States in 2003, when he was twelve years old.
He graduated from Missouri State University in 2015 with a degree in Criminal Justice and was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He earned his J.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with academic honors where he was a member of the UMKC Law Review and twice participated in the annual Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition. While in law school, Kevin had the opportunity to work in the U.S. District Court of Missouri Western District for the Honorable David P. Rush. He also worked in diverse areas of law such as immigration law at Martinez Immigration Law and appellate law at Sternberg P.C. Following law school, Kevin joined Wagstaff & Cartmell as an associate attorney in its Mass Tort division.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Wagstaff & Cartmell
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San Francisco Unified School District's case was the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria; after the plaintiffs rested, Altria agreed to pay $235 million to resolve roughly 6,000 pending e-vapor claims nationwide.
A federal jury in Hammond, Indiana found that Ethicon's Prolift transvaginal mesh was defectively designed and inadequately warned against, awarding Barbara and Anton Kaiser $35 million. A judge reduced the punitive damages, leaving a $20 million verdict that the Seventh Circuit affirmed in full in 2020.
Kathryn Gant died at the scene of a head-on crash on K-58 in Kansas on June 10, 2011, after a driver crossed the center line in a no-passing zone. Her husband sued the driver, the driver's parents and the family oil company. After a five-day bench trial in June 2015, a Coffey County judge found all of them liable and awarded $6,723,021. Under a pretrial agreement, none of the judgment could be collected from the defendants themselves.
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in designing platforms that harmed a young woman identified as K.G.M., who began watching YouTube at age 6 and joined Instagram at 9. On March 25, 2026, it awarded $3 million in compensatory damages, split 70 percent to Meta and 30 percent to YouTube, plus $3 million in punitive damages. It was the first bellwether trial in the coordinated California social media addiction cases.
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