Recent News & Cases
Recent News and Case Results:
- Joe Eischens named Super Lawyer in Missouri and Kansas for 2007 in the area of Labor and Employment by Kansas City Magazine based on peer evaluation.
- Summary Judgment Denial in two separate cases in which the plaintiffs allege sex discrimination arising out of the termination of their employment with Securitas. The rulings by judges in the US District Court of Kansas allowed the cases to proceed to trial by jury.
- Settlement for family of four in trucking accident case when they were struck from the rear by semi tractor-trailer in Miami County, Kansas.
- Confidential Settlement in automobile accident case in Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, for plaintiff struck by trash truck in an alley who suffered numerous disabling injuries including blindness.
- Summary Judgment Denial in sexual harassment and retaliation case against Spinnaker Development Company and others arising out of plaintiff’s employment in time share company in Branson, Missouri.
- $550,000 Total Settlement for female plaintiff with fractured cervical vertebrae injured in automobile accident in Jackson County, Missouri.
- Randy Brown joins firm. Randy Brown, who formerly worked with a prominent local personal injury firm, joined Steve Thornberry and Joe Eischens to form Thornberry, Eischens & Brown. Brown brings trial experience in a number of different areas including trucking accidents, defective products, wrongful death and other serious personal injury matters.
- $160,000 settlement in age discrimination case for former Air Traffic Controller who claimed he was discriminated against because of his age by the FAA when they failed to rehire him and instead hired a number of younger employees.
- $170,000 total arbitration award for Arab-American automobile salesman subjected to racially hostile work environment and terminated because of race discrimination.
