Douglas H. Morris

Douglas H. Morris was born and raised in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 1976. He began his legal career in a defense practice at the law firm of Boehl Stopher Graves & Diendorfer in Louisville, Kentucky becoming a partner in 1978. From 1985-2007, Doug, along with Louisville attorney, Ann Oldfather, grew a law practice focusing primarily on medical malpractice, product liability, pharmaceutical litigation and complex tort litigation. In 2007, he and Lea Player formed Morris & Player PLLC and together have continued to represent plaintiffs in complex personal injury claims. Doug has tried many complex cases as lead or sole trial counsel. He has negotiated or obtained trial verdicts in many high-profile and multi million dollar cases including in 2008, a settlement with the Transit Authority of River City (TARC) for $7.2 million dollars, a settlement of $25 million dollars for victims of clergy sexual assault against the Archdiocese of Louisville, a settlement of $10 million dollars against an oil refinery for a worker injured in an explosion, a $5 million dollar trial verdict against a drug manufacturer, a $5 million dollar settlement for the failure to diagnose and treat Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a $3 million dollar trial verdict for the negligent design of a fork lift, a $6 million dollar settlement on behalf of a worker injured in a trucking accident, a $2.15 million dollar settlement on behalf of a patient negligently treated by an impaired physician, a $3.5 million dollar settlement on behalf of the estate of a man wrongly mistaken for another by police and who was shot killed and an $824, 0000 trial verdict involving contract employment dispute.