Product Liability Lawyers Serving the Kansas City Metro Area

When a defective product causes a catastrophic injury or kills someone, the company that made it rarely volunteers to accept responsibility. Product liability law gives victims the legal mechanism to force that accountability, but these cases are technically demanding, expensive to litigate, and heavily contested by manufacturers with large legal teams.

McCartney Stucky's Kansas City Metro office is based in Lenexa, KS and represents product liability victims on both sides of the state line, in Kansas and Missouri courts. Our practice is built entirely around complex catastrophic injury and product liability litigation. We are not a high-volume personal injury operation, and every case we accept gets the full trial team, including our founding partners, from the first call through verdict.

Product liability claims generally fall into three categories: defective design, manufacturing defects, and failure to warn. We handle all three, with particular depth in automotive crashworthiness failures, commercial truck defects, and industrial and consumer product cases. If a product caused your injury and a manufacturer is responsible, we will fully investigate the case, tell you what it requires, and whether we're the right firm to take it.

We Don't Just Argue Defect. We Prove It.

Winning a product liability case requires more than legal argument. It requires the ability to demonstrate, technically and forensically, exactly how a product failed and why that failure caused the harm. Our attorneys work with nationally recognized safety engineers, accident reconstruction specialists, and forensic experts who understand the manufacturing standards manufacturers are held to, and where they fell short.

We prepare every case as if it will go to trial. That preparation creates negotiating leverage that generic personal injury firms can't replicate, and it has produced results, including seven- and eight-figure verdicts and settlements, against some of the largest manufacturers in the world. Physical evidence in product liability cases, such as the defective vehicle, the failed component, or the product itself, can be altered, repaired, or destroyed quickly. We move fast to preserve it, and our in-house evidence storage facility, built with a vehicle lift, gives us the capacity to hold what most firms can't.

Results Against Some of the Largest Manufacturers in the World

$4.3 Million — Verdict Against BMW. A defective airbag caused the plaintiff to lose an eye. After a two-week trial in Ulster County, the jury found BMW's airbag system defective and awarded $4.3 million in damages.

$22.3 Million — Verdict Against Honda. A rollover case that produced a record product liability verdict in Columbia County.



These outcomes weren't negotiated cheaply and closed quietly. They were won through trial preparation, technical knowledge, and the willingness to stand in front of a jury against some of the world's largest automakers. We take on tough cases that other firms might not be willing to take on.

Product Liability Cases We Handle in the Kansas City Metro

From our Lenexa, KS office, we handle the following categories of product liability claims for clients throughout Kansas and Missouri.

Defective Heavy Trucks

Post-collision fires, underride crashes, and cab structural failures caused by manufacturer design defects. The Kansas City Metro sits at the intersection of I-70 and I-35, two of the country's busiest commercial truck corridors, and generates a significant volume of defective truck cases.

Automotive Defects

Malfunctioning airbags, seatbelt failures, roof crush in rollovers, and other crashworthiness defects that manufacturers designed into vehicles and are legally responsible for. We pursue the automaker, not just the driver.

Consumer Product Defects

Hazardous appliances, unsafe children's products, and defective electronics that cause serious injury or death under normal use. We challenge manufacturers, distributors, and retailers for allowing unsafe goods into the marketplace.

Workplace Machinery Defects

Industrial machines without proper guards, emergency shut-offs, or fail-safe controls that cause amputations, crush injuries, and fatalities. We work with safety engineers to document the defect and hold the equipment maker accountable.

We Handle Cases on Both Sides of the State Line

The Kansas City Metro straddles the Kansas-Missouri state line, and many local firms focus on one jurisdiction or the other. McCartney Stucky's Lenexa office handles cases in both Kansas and Missouri state courts, as well as the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas and the Western District of Missouri.

On the Kansas side, we regularly litigate in Johnson County District Court, Wyandotte County District Court, and other eastern Kansas jurisdictions serving Overland Park, Leawood, Olathe, Lenexa, Shawnee, and Merriam. On the Missouri side, we handle cases in Jackson County Circuit Court, Clay County Circuit Court, and the Western District of Missouri federal court, serving Kansas City, Independence, Lee's Summit, and Raytown.