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Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Railroad Law; Class Actions

Additional Information:
William Kvas is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who has devoted his legal career to assisting injured individuals, appearing as counsel in over thirty states. Many attorneys throughout the country have referred cases to him because of his experience and reputation. Over 2,000 railroaders have asked him for assistance with injury claims. He pioneered occupational disease litigation for railroad workers, trying several of the first cases for noise induced hearing loss in the 1980s. In 1998, he obtained the largest verdict for carpal tunnel syndrome to be upheld on appeal for a railroad worker. In 2002, he obtained verdict of over one million dollars for an Amtrak engineer. The verdict followed a hard fought battle where he proved that Amtrak had falsified documents to cover up the cause of the accident. In 2005, Kvas obtained a verdict of $700,000 for a CSX engineer who suffered smoke inhalation while operating a locomotive and a verdict of over $300,000 for a fireman and oiler whose case set precedent on the railroad’s liability for off property injuries. Most recently, he scored two big victories over CSX – a verdict of $628,000 in Syracuse for a maintenance of way mechanic and $750,000 in Huntington, West Virginia for an engineer who was exposed to a chemical leaking from a tank car.

Kvas lectures frequently at Continuing Legal Education courses, teaching trial strategy and courtroom skills to other lawyers. Kvas graduated from the Carlson School of Management and received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Minnesota Law School. He is member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys. He is presently a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Kvas possesses an A/V rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible ranking for both legal ability and ethics. He was elected by fellow attorneys to the list of “Best Lawyers in America,” the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States.

Hunegs, LeNeave, & Kvas, P.A., is designated counsel for several major railroad unions.