Knight Nicastro attorneys James Roberts and Adam Duerk were recently featured in The Missoulian article “Legal battles may lie ahead over asbestos handling by University of Montana.” The article describes the firm’s extensive experience handling asbestos...
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Knight Nicastro is investigating the revelation of disease inducing asbestos containing materials (ACM) at the University of Montana’s McGill Hall. EPA test results indicate high levels of asbestos fibers in settled dust inside the 50,000...
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Adam Detsky was recently quoted in Steve Vockrodt’s The Kansas City Star article “‘The duck boat industry is in trouble’: Two lawsuits and a criminal investigation.” In the article, Adam describes how the lack of...
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The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether a railroad’s payment to an employee for time lost from work is subject to employment taxes under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act (“RRTA”). The plaintiff in his FELA...
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The Colorado Court of Appeals announced its opinion in Paradine v. Goei, 2018 COA 88, on Thursday, April 19. The court held that the Colorado Wage Claims Act (CWCA) does not prevent plaintiffs from holding...
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By Tanya Patterson The statistics regarding burn out and substance abuse among lawyers are staggering. Up to 20% of lawyers abuse drugs while only 8-10% of the general population do so. In a February 2016...
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By Adam Detsky Colorado Constitutional Amendment 64, the ballot measure that legalized recreational marijuana use for adults, is approaching the fifth anniversary of its passage in November 2012. This article looks at pressing issues the...
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We are proud to announce that Noah Garcia has been selected for 2018 Missouri & Kansas Rising Stars for Super Lawyers.Each year, Super Lawyers recognizes the top lawyers in Missouri and Kansas via a patented multiphase selection...
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Noah Garcia has been recognized as the June honoree for the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation’s “Military Matters Pro Bono Spotlight.” The Spotlight is a monthly recognition of outstanding work by volunteer pro-bono attorneys in...
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We are proud to announce that Caleena Svatek has been selected for 2018 Texas Rising Stars for Super Lawyers. Each year, Super Lawyers recognizes the top lawyers in Texas via a patented multiphase selection process...
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Kansas City paralegals Karen Frisbie, Jeannie Johnson and Ashley Smith and attorney Michael Wise recently participated in Food from the Bar Helpy Hour with Judge Brent Powell where volunteers packed boxes to be distributed to...
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The firm recently attended the Kansas City Paralegal Association’s benefit for Big Brothers/Big Sisters. The Fall Social had a live silent auction and raffle prizes. Knight Nicastro donated a wine basket for the event. The...
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For the past several years, the Kansas City Paralegal Association, during its October vendor showcase, has collected teddy bears to be given out to children in crisis situations by the Kansas City Missouri Police Department. Last year,...
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Noah Garcia has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Lawyers Association of Kansas City: Young Lawyers Section. He will serve a two-year term from 2018 to 2020. LAKC-YLS prides itself on its...
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Knight Nicastro is pleased to announce that Nick Erickson, a former law clerk on the Colorado Court of Appeals, has joined the firm as an Associate Attorney. Nick graduated from Indiana University’s McKinney School of Law...
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Karen Frisbie and Michelle Reed of our Missouri office volunteered with the Kansas City Paralegal Association at Harvesters, a local food bank. We appreciate their service to the community and are proud to have them...
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On April 21, 2020, United States District Judge Marsha Pechman dismissed a lawsuit against BNSF Railway Company for failing to present evidence that her late husband’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was caused by occupational exposures....
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Attorneys Chad Knight and Steve Williams represented BNSF in a lawsuit filed by a BNSF engineer in Missoula, Montana. The plaintiff brought claims under the FELA and the Locomotive Inspection Act alleging that he had...
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The Chief Judge of the United States District Court of Montana recently ruled that an indemnification provision requiring a party to fully indemnify another party even for the negligent conduct of that party is valid...
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After a recent three-day jury trial in the Western District of Missouri, Knight Nicastro’s Noah Garcia obtained an unprecedented defense verdict on behalf of a class one railway company client. The case involved a “maintenance of...
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Chad Knight was asked defend this case six weeks before trial. Over those six weeks, the team he led completed a year’s worth of discovery that had not been completed, including deposing nearly two dozen...
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Chad Knight and Anthony Nicastro defended BNSF in a lawsuit filed by a mobile repair carman who suffered an amputation injury when a railcar he lost control of a railcar he was working on and...
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Chad Knight represented BNSF in a FELA wrongful death lawsuit involving an employee of the Great Northern Railroad who worked as a telegrapher at its Libby, Montana rail yard in the 1950s. The Plaintiff claimed...
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Defense verdict in Kalispell, Montana in case alleging asbestos and creosote exposure by former engineer for the Great Northern Railroad. The Plaintiff claimed exposure to asbestos and creosote when operating a vintage “fireless locomotive” from...
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Seamus Molloy, a trial attorney who has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts, has joined Knight Nicastro MacKay in its Missoula, Montana, office. Molloy previously worked for a large commercial...
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Knight Nicastro MacKay recently added two attorneys to its growing Colorado practice, Matthew Gardner and Charlotte Johnston, who both joined the Boulder office. Gardner, an experienced trial lawyer, focuses his practice on representing clients in...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Effective immediately Knight Nicastro will officially be Knight Nicastro MacKay. The name change reflects the firm’s growth and the outstanding contribution of Derek MacKay who is a current member practicing in the...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Knight Nicastro has opened offices in Chicago and Peoria, Illinois, and added five attorneys to its team of skilled litigators. The attorneys add to Knight Nicastro’s significant experience representing clients in the...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Knight Nicastro is excited to welcome Dylan McFarland as an attorney in the firm’s Missoula, Montana office. McFarland brings extensive experience handling complex civil litigation and is a revered member of the...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Knight Nicastro expands their deep bench of skilled trial attorneys welcoming a former Senior General Attorney for BNSF Railway and a former Assistant United States Attorney. James Roberts joins as a member,...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Knight Nicastro, best known for its national transportation defense practice, announces a significant addition to its insurance defense group in its Kansas City office. Trial attorneys Derek MacKay, Allison Greenfield, Erik Nelson and Pamela Winter, now formerly of...
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