A Kansas City lawyer won a $15 million settlement for the family of a former Kansas man killed in a Chicago airplane crash. Gary Robb represented the survivors of Michael Waugh, general manager of Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone ...

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Kansas City lawyer Gary Robb added another notch to his belt of helicopter-crash lawsuits with a $7.2 million victory on Monday in Polk County, Iowa. The jury verdict was on behalf of Kathy Schlotzhauer, a Lenexa, Kan., woman whose husband was killed while filming a movie scene. "We hope that this verdict serves as a wake-up call to the movie industry that safety must always come first," Robb said in a press release. He noted that the entire budget for the film was $7 million.

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