Sarah Ruane

Proven Verdicts
Managing Partner at Wagstaff & Cartmell
Kansas City, MO

About Sarah Ruane

Sarah has been appointed Co-Lead Counsel in the following multidistrict litigations, both pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania before the Honorable Karen S. Marston: In Re: Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RAs) Products Liability Litigation , MDL No. 3094 (gastrointestinal injuries) In Re: Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RAs) Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Products Liability Litigation , MDL No. 3163 (vision loss / NAION) Successfully argued before the Missouri Supreme Court in Wanda Mayes, et al., v. Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, et al. Case No. SC93012 Has extensive trial experience and has tried a number of cases to verdict in Missouri and Kansas

Proven verdicts and settlements

$2.5 millionVerdict

An Orlando federal jury awarded Virginia Redding $2.5 million after finding that Coloplast's NovaSilk pelvic organ prolapse mesh was defectively designed and that the company had concealed known risks from her physician, in what was the first jury verdict against Coloplast for that specific device.

U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida · 2022Product LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Kansas School of Law
J.D., 2006
Wake Forest University
Undergraduate, 2003

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kansas
State Bar of Missouri

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