Christopher A. Wright

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9930 Watson Rd. Suite 100
St. Louis, Missouri 63126
Phone: (314) 322-8515

Personal & Professional Background

Chris Wright has represented victims and their families in complex personal injury, medical negligence, nursing home negligence and wrongful death cases since 1998. Chris is licensed to practice law in Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas (currently inactive). Chris grew up in Oakville in South St. Louis County, and is the son of the late Colonel Allen D. Wright (US Army & MO Army National Guard) and JoAnn Wright. He graduated from CBC High School in 1990, where he was a member of the National Honor Society, and the Cadet football and baseball teams. Chris attended William Jewell College in Liberty, MO where he was a member of the Jewell Cardinals football and Debate Team. In 1994, Chris graduated from Jewell with Bachelor of Arts Degrees in both Political Science and Communication. Chris graduated from UMKC School of Law in 1998. While in law school, Chris served as Managing Editor of the UMKC Law Review, on the Ellison Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Board, and he received the Max J. Foust Scholarship, a scholarship awarded annually to a law student with experience or skills that indicate future success in trial advocacy.

Chris has supported, or has served on the Boards of, the following charitable and consumer advocacy groups: The United Way; The Brain Injury Association of Missouri; The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, and the Jr. Cadets Athletic Program. He is currently a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA), the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ILTLA), the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) and the American Association for Justice (AAJ).

Chris lives in Webster Groves with his wife, Shannon O’Brien Wright (Staff Legal Counsel for the St. Louis County Probate Court), their 3 sons – Ben (a student at SIUE), Will (a student at Ole Miss) and Sam (a student at CBC High School) – and their sweet golden retrievers, Baxter and Bear. In addition to representing his clients, Chris’ passions include enjoying every moment with his family, coaching youth football, and trying to defy the aging process by working out at The Grind FS.

Notable Cases

Personal Injury Cases

$2,700,000 Settlement in Wrongful Death Case Against a Transportation Agency involving the death of a mother and wife when she was struck by a commuter passenger train

$1,000,000 Policy Limits Settlement in Trucking Crash Case Against an Agricultural Farm Supply Transportation Company where client sustained multiple serious personal injuries following commercial truck driver crossing center line of rural state highway & crashing into client’s vehicle

Confidential Settlement in Premises Liability & Negligence Case Against University of Missouri Fraternity where client sustained permanent spinal cord injury after fall from fraternity house 2nd story window

Confidential Settlement in Premises Liability & Negligence Case Against University of Missouri Fraternity where the client’s son died in fraternity house fire

$300,000 Unanimous Arbitration Verdict in Dangerous Condition of Premises Case Against the Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) on behalf of a prisoner injured while working as part of the MODOT & MODOC Work-Release Program

Medical Malpractice Cases

$4,000,000 Personal Injury Settlement Against a Correctional Health Care Company on behalf of a nurse employed by the Company after suffering permanent brain injury when the Company failed to maintain working Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) on the prison premises

$2,000,000 Wrongful Death Settlement Against a Missouri Hospital on behalf of the family of a husband and father who died from acute bacterial endocarditis when the Hospital failed to inform the patient of critical abnormal blood test results showing that their patient had a blood infection

$1,175,000 Wrongful Death Settlement During Trial Against a Missouri Hospital on behalf of the family of a husband and father who died from acute bacterial endocarditis when the Hospital’s employee physicians failed to recognize and treat acute bacterial endocarditis following valve replacement surgery

Confidential Settlement in Wrongful Death Case Against a National HMO, Missouri Hospitalist Company & Missouri Hospital on behalf of the family of a 77 year old mother and grandmother when a Hospitalist and ER physician failed to diagnose that the patient was experiencing an acute heart attack and sent her home from the ER because of a contract between the HMO and Hospitalist Company where a bonus was paid to the Hospitalist Company based on reducing the number of patients admitted to the ER

$750,000 Wrongful Death Settlement Against a Mid-Missouri Laboratory Company on behalf of the family of a husband and father who died from metastatic skin cancer when the Laboratory Company pathologist failed to identify melanoma when reading a biopsy

$650,000 Personal Injury Settlement Against a Missouri Hospital on behalf of a young man injured by the Hospital’s orthopedic surgeon when the surgeon negligently performed shoulder surgery when he failed to fully seat suture anchors into the patient’s glenoid causing permanent injury to client’s shoulder

$450,000 Personal Injury Settlement Against an Illinois Emergency Medicine Company & Illinois Hospital on behalf of a husband and father who suffered serious injury when ER physician failed to diagnose that the patient was suffering from an acute bowel obstruction and perforation

$300,000 Wrongful Death Settlement Against an Illinois Hospital on behalf of the family of an 18 year old girl who died the result of the negligence of an ER physician who failed to recognize that the patient was suffering from an acute cardiac condition and refer her to cardiac specialists

Confidential Wrongful Death Settlement Against a Missouri Hospital on behalf of the family of a 3 year old boy who died as a result of negligence of ER physicians that failed to diagnose the child had acute meningitis

Confidential Wrongful Death Settlement Against a Missouri Hospital on behalf of the family of an 8 year old boy who died as a result of negligence of the ER physician that failed to diagnose the child had acute appendicitis

Confidential Wrongful Death Settlement Against a Missouri Urgent Care Facility on behalf of the family of a 65 year old man who died as a result of negligence of the treating Nurse Practitioner that failed to diagnose that her patient had Deep Vein Thrombosis and was At Risk for Pulmonary Embolism

Confidential Personal Injury Settlement Against a Missouri Nursing Home on behalf of a nursing home resident with dementia who was a known fall risk when the nursing home failed to provide adequate protective oversight and allowed the resident to fall and fracture her hip

Confidential Personal Injury Settlement Against a Missouri Imaging Center on behalf of a patient with a brain bleed whose CT Scan of the Brain was misread by the imaging center radiologist

Confidential Wrongful Death Settlement Against a Missouri Nursing Home on behalf of the 2 adult children of a nursing home resident with dementia who was at risk for developing bed sores when the nursing home allowed the resident to develop a Stage IV bed sore on her coccyx that led to overwhelming infection

Confidential Wrongful Death Settlement Against an Illinois Hospital and Hospitalist Physician on behalf of the surviving wife and adult children of the 68 year-old decedent who died the result of undiagnosed and untreated bacterial endocarditis

Confidential Personal Injury Settlement Against a Missouri Hospital and General Surgeon in connection with a negligently performed laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery

Confidential Personal Injury Settlement Against a Missouri Hospital and General Surgeon in connection with the surgeon and hospital scrub nurses leaving a forgotten foreign object in the patient following a hernia surgery

Professional & Personal Accomplishments

• AV Rated Attorney (for 20+ years) – Martindale-Hubbell
• Super Lawyer – Personal Injury-Plaintiff Category
• Up & Coming Lawyer Under 40 – Missouri Lawyer’s Weekly
• Eagle Scout & Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of America

Practice Areas

• Anesthesiologist/anesthesia negligence
• Emergency physician negligence
• Emergency room (ER) malpractice and negligence
• Failure to diagnose acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
• Failure to diagnose aortic dissection
• Failure to diagnose appendicitis
• Failure to diagnose brain bleed/bleeding
• Failure to diagnose deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
• Failure to diagnose endocarditis
• Failure to diagnose heart attack (myocardial infarction)
• Failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism (PE)
• Failure to diagnose subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Failure to diagnose subdural hemorrhage
• Gallbladder surgery negligence
• Surgeon negligence
• Surgery/surgical negligence
• Nursing Home & Skilled Nursing Facility Negligence
• Hospital Negligence

Free Consultation:

I always offer free consultations for personal injury cases. You may not need a lawyer to handle your injury case, but you should at least get a free consultation to determine if you do.

Also, if I agree to handle your case, I handle it on a contingent basis. This means you don’t pay a fee unless I win your case.

Call (314) 322-8515 at any time (24 hours a day/7 days a week) to schedule your free consultation. You can also send me an email at john@pagelaw.com.