Catastrophic & Personal Injury: Regional & National — Our Kentucky Team

Led by Masten Childers, our Kentucky-based team has Kentucky roots and national scale.

Our Kentucky catastrophic and personal injury practice is built on a foundation of deep local knowledge and the broad capabilities of a leading full-service law firm. We advocate for injured individuals and families in Kentucky, regionally and nationally, bringing a scale and breadth of resources that few Kentucky-based practices can match.

Under Masten Childers’ leadership, Whiteford has emerged as the law firm other lawyers call when a case gets too big or too complex. Having built his career across state, federal, and appellate courts, he brings singular insight to plaintiff-side advocacy. After years spent defending banks, insurance carriers, medical institutions, and major corporate clients, he understands how sophisticated defendants think — and how to hold them accountable. We regularly take cases to trial and achieve results other firms settle away.

Catastrophic Injury Cases
We handle a full range of serious and catastrophic injury matters, including:

• Aviation disasters and commercial aviation accidents
• Catastrophic injury and traumatic brain injury
• Wrongful death
• Medical negligence and birth injuries
• Commercial trucking and vehicle collisions
• Nursing home abuse and elder neglect
• Products liability and defective products
• Construction accidents
• Mass tort and toxic exposure actions

 
A Record of Exceptional Results
We have built a formidable reputation with insurance companies and defense counsel who have learned, firsthand, that we are prepared to fight. Recent results include:

• Aviation disaster litigation. Ongoing representation of more than 100 individuals and businesses in the UPS Flight 2976 crash litigation, the most significant aviation catastrophe in Kentucky's recent history.
• $8.4 million verdict. A Marion County jury verdict in a complex medical malpractice case, one of the largest such recoveries in the region to date, achieved after medical providers denied liability for years until we took the case to trial.
• Elder abuse and wrongful death. Representation of the family of an abused patient in an action against a rehabilitation hospital, resulting in a significant Kentucky Supreme Court decision affirming victims' rights to full civil discovery — a precedent-setting outcome for elder abuse victims and their families.

Partnership with Peterson Law Office
Whiteford has a valued partnership with Peterson Law Office, a premier personal injury firm founded by Lexington, Kentucky, native Justin Peterson. Before building a distinguished personal injury practice, Mr. Peterson spent years representing some of the nation's largest insurance carriers, corporations and trucking companies—experience that gives him a rare command of how these claims are defended and evaluated. That insight works to the direct advantage of the clients he represents. Together, Whiteford and Peterson Law Office have built one of the largest personal injury practices in Kentucky, combining deep local roots with the resources and reach of a full-service firm.

$33,250,000 
Settlement — Commercial Vehicle

$10,000,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice

$10,000,000 
Settlement — Pediatric Anesthesia Negligence

$8,400,000 
Verdict — Medical Malpractice

$7,500,000 
Settlement — Product Liability

$6,000,000 
Settlement — Nursing Home Abuse

$5,500,000 
Settlement — OBGYN Negligence

$5,200,000 
Settlement — Motor Vehicle Accident/Wrongful Death

$4,000,000 
Settlement — Motor Vehicle Accident

$4,000,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice

$3,253,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice – Hospital-Acquired Pressure Sores

$3,250,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice

$3,250,000 
Settlement — School Bus Crash

$3,200,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice

$3,000,000 
Settlement — Pool Drowning

$3,000,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice

$3,000,000 
Settlement — Motor Vehicle Accident

$2,850,000 
Settlement — Slip and Fall

$2,500,000 
Settlement — OBGYN Negligence

$2,500,000 
Settlement — Nursing Home Abuse

$2,200,000 
Settlement — Semi Truck Injury

$2,100,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice

$2,000,000 
Settlement — OBGYN Family Doctor Negligence

$2,000,000 
Settlement — Motor Vehicle Accident

$1,900,000 
Settlement — Apartment Fire

$1,800,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice

$1,500,000 
Settlement — Nursing Home Abuse

$1,500,000 
Settlement — Nursing Home Abuse

$1,500,000 
Settlement — Nursing Home Abuse

$1,500,000 
Settlement — OBGYN Negligence

$1,500,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice

$1,250,000 
Settlement — Nursing Home Abuse

$1,100,000 
Settlement — Medical Malpractice

$1,000,000 
Settlement — OBGYN Negligence

$1,000,000 
Settlement — Nursing Home Abuse

$1,000,000 
Settlement — Motor Vehicle Accident

$1,000,000 
Settlement — Dog Bite