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About Marc K. Erickson
Settled a commercial case against the City of Kansas City, Missouri for $15 million Former certified fire and explosion investigator through the National Association of Fire Investigators Marc Erickson joined Wagstaff + Cartmell in 1999. He has over 20 years of experience in civil trial practice, with an emphasis in medical malpractice, personal injury, natural gas and propane explosions, electrocutions and other claims against utilities, products liability, business litigation and municipal zoning law. Marc has successfully tried numerous cases to verdict in Missouri and Kansas, in both state and federal courts. His defense verdicts in Mitchell v. Evans, Beaty v. Saint Luke’s, and Connors v. Goeking were recognized as some of the top defense verdicts in 2006 and 2007 by Missouri Lawyer’s Weekly.
As a former certified fire and explosion investigator through the National Association of Fire Investigators, Marc has handled claims investigations and litigation in fire and explosion cases throughout the country. Vanessa H. Gross and her partner successfully defended a local orthopedic surgeon in a jury trial in which the plaintiff alleged that negligent placement of a component during a total hip replacement surgery caused subsequent dislocations and revision surgeries. After a four-day trial, a Johnson County, Kansas jury returned a verdict in favor of the client.
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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