Falling Like a House of Cards - The $48.1m Simon Law Firm P.R. Debacle

Falling Like a House of Cards - The $48.1m Simon Law Firm P.R. Debacle

Critical Update: April 3, 2026 - Query Deserves Freshness

For over twelve months and to this day both The Simon Law Firm P.C. and Gunn Slater Law Firm have been advertising their $48.1 million dollar record breaking medical malpractice birth injury verdict garnering headlines from the legacy media and claiming that they had obtained "justice" for their clients R.A., Sarah and Blake Anyan and that as a result the child will be taken cared for for the rest of his life.

The fact of the matter regarding the Anyan v Mercy Hospital East / Dr. Daniel McNeive birth injury case and the $48.1 million dollar jury verdict was undermined by the very plaintiff counsel of the Anyan Family that made this press releases and advertisements to the public by capping the gross recovery of the claim at $18.0 million dollars by entering into a "high / low" agreement with defense counsel just nine minutes before the jury rendered their verdict. Both The Simon Law Firm P.C. and that of Gunn Slater Law Firm knew, they knew that $48.1 million dollars was never available for recovery and the "justice" they claim to have achieved for their client was a deliberate public relations deception and a $30.1 million dollar omission of fact. - A violation of the Missouri Model Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 4-7.1.

Yet further, Simon Law and Gunn Slater knew that they jury verdict would be subject to post trial motions at which time Simon Law and Gunn Slater fought aggressively to uphold the "high / low" agreement and did prevail in getting the trial court to uphold the agreement. However.....

However, this is the update and current status of the Anyan v Mercy / McNeive case as of April 3, 2026. The case is on appeal in the Eastern District case #ED113824 and on the date of April 3, 2026 the appellants filed their opening brief. This case is far from over and what is more is that if the appeals court does not uphold the "high / low" agreement the original judgement at the trial court level will be reintroduce and as a result of Missouri Statute with regard to statutory caps on non-economic compensatory damages and the high threshold for the imposition of punitive damages even the $18.0 million dollar cap that plaintiff counsel is fighting to retain is very likely to be subject to reductions through the act of remittitur.

The 66 page Appellants Opening Brief has been archived and is available for review and download at the following website, url. 

Jury-Watch Org - https://jury-watch.org/breaking-news-anyan-mercy