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W&C featured in Kansas City Business Journal
November 4, 2011 by admin
Wagstaff & Cartmell were recently featured in the Kansas City Business Journal, in an article entitled Wagstaff & Cartmell’s growth docket includes handling both plaintiff, defense work. In the article, the firm’s founding partners, Tom W. Wagstaff and Tom P. Cartmell, discuss their continued success with handling both plaintiff and defense litigation, which was the [...]
Continue Reading →Brandon Henry and Sarah Ruane successfully defended our client, a local obstetrician/gynecologist, in a jury trial in which the plaintiffs made claims of alleged failure to diagnose and treat an infectious process in a patient during pregnancy. The plaintiffs, a mother and minor child, alleged that our client, based upon a concern about an ongoing [...]
Continue Reading →Defense Verdict – Leg Amputation/General Surgeon
August 10, 2011 by admin
Jeff Kuntz and T.J. Preuss successfully defended our client, a general surgeon, in a jury trial in which the plaintiff alleged that the surgeon failed to properly treat the plaintiff’s diabetic foot ulcer. Plaintiff argued that a delay in surgery allowed the infection to spread to the bone, become systemic, and progress out of control, [...]
Continue Reading →Defense Verdict – Perforation to Esophagus During Esophageal Dilation
August 5, 2011 by admin
Marc Erickson and Brandon Henry successfully defended our client, a gastroenterologist, in a jury trial in Jackson County, Missouri. The patient had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer and our client was performing an esophageal dilation when he unintentionally perforated the patient’s esophagus. As a result of the perforation, the patient underwent multiple surgeries. The patient [...]
Continue Reading →Three appellate victories arrive on same day
March 2, 2011 by admin
On November 17, 2009, Wagstaff & Cartmell received an unprecedented abundance of good news for its clients from Missouri appellate courts. In three, separate cases, Wagstaff & Cartmell clients scored victories on appeal, two from the Missouri Supreme Court, and one from the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District. These results highlighted not only Wagstaff [...]
Continue Reading →Cartmell plays key role in $745M Pfizer settlement
March 2, 2011 by admin
Tom Cartmell and other W&C attorneys played a key role in obtaining a $745 million settlement announced on October 17, 2008, between pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, Inc., and claimants across the United States seeking damages as a result of injuries from taking medications Bextra and Celebrex. W&C represents hundreds of such claimants. Cartmell was one of [...]
Continue Reading →Cartmell on team for first Avandia jury trials
March 2, 2011 by admin
Tom Cartmell and other lawyers from the Firm will be on the trial team in two of the first cases set for trial in the national products liability litigation concerning Avandia, a diabetes medication sold by GlaxoSmithKline. Cartmell continues to serve as a member of the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in the In re Avandia Marketing, [...]
Continue Reading →Erin Brockovich teams with W&C
March 2, 2011 by admin
Erin Brockovich is teaming with W&C lawyers Thomas P. Cartmell, Thomas L. Wagstaff, and Brian Madden in investigating a high incidence of brain tumors in Cameron, Missouri, north of Kansas City. She came to Cameron in October 2008 for an informational meeting at the high school gymnasium. As reported by KMBC-TV, W&C worked with the [...]
Continue Reading →Spotlight: W&C files lawsuit; Erin Brockovich returns
March 1, 2011 by admin
Following months of investigation assisted by Erin Brockovich, Wagstaff & Cartmell LLP, along with the Los Angeles firm of Girardi Keese and the Cameron, Missouri firm of Griffin Dietrich Elliott has sued Prime Tanning Corp. and others for negligence and strict liability in connection with the disposal of hazardous waste on Missouri farms near Cameron, [...]
Continue Reading →Spotlight: Court name Tom Cartmell to Avandia MDL leadership
March 1, 2011 by admin
A federal court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recently appointed Tom Cartmell to the national Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the nationwide Avandia litigation, In re: Avandia Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1871 (E.D. Pa.). The Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe interviewed Mr. Cartmell in open court regarding his qualifications and subsequently entered an order [...]
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