Missouri Lawn Mower Amputation Case Filed and Settled 18 Years Later -- $1.3 Million

Missouri Amputation Case
Filed Eighteen Years Later

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We are pleased to present the Summer 2005 issue of our newsletter. In this issue we report on a $1.2 million Missouri verdict, a Missouri automotive product liability settlement, and a Kansas birth trauma settlement. Representation of individuals and families in crisis - whether due to catastrophic injury or death - is our primary mission. Though the work is challenging and the responsibility is tremendous, our greatest satisfaction comes from providing a measure of justice and compensation for our clients.

This interesting case goes back to April 13, 1985, when 5-year-old Lamoni Riordan had part of his foot amputated by a riding lawn mower operated by his father. Lamoni and his 7-year-old brother, Joseph, had been dropped off at the Stake (Community) Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon Church) at 81st and Holmes Road in Kansas City, Missouri. Their mother had some errands to run for about an

hour on a Saturday and felt it was safe for the boys to be there without any specific supervision. The Riordans' 17-year-old daughter was attending a program inside the Stake Center, and their father Kenneth was there as well, mowing the lawn using a riding lawnmower, which was one of his duties as the custodian for the Stake Center.

Kenneth Riordan was aware that
Lamoni and other children were
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