Hutton and Hutton Law Firm loses founder Mark Hutton - Wichita Business Journal
Mark Hutton, a Wichita lawyer for 42 years and the co-founder of Hutton & Hutton Law Firm, died last Wednesday at the age of 67.
He died from complications related to metastatic cancer, which he was diagnosed with five years ago. His law firm released information of his death.
Originally from Newton, Hutton and his twin brother, Andy, graduated from Washburn Law School in 1979. They passed the bar exam before joining Gerald Michaud's firm in Wichita.
The brothers formed their own firm in 1995. The firm now has eight attorneys and 15 employees, dealing primarily in medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability and mass torts cases, according to its 2021 entry on the WBJ's list of largest law firms.
Among the cases the firm cited as being Hutton's most notable:
• Aves v. Shah, a mid-1980s verdict of more than $23 million against an obstetrician and Larned hospital after the delivery of a baby with devastating birth injuries. The firm says Hutton's work led to many high-risk obstetrical cases from western Kansas being referred to specialists in Wichita, Kansas City and Topeka.
• O'Gilvie v. International Playtex, Inc., where the family of a woman who died from toxic-shock syndrome received more than $11.5 million in damages and led Playtex discontinuing the sale of some of its products.
• Most recently, Hutton represented former Wichita police officer Brian Arterburn, who in 2017 was run over while on duty by the driver of a Chevy Tahoe owned by Eddy's Chevrolet Cadillac, LLC. Arterburn sustained severe brain injuries, and the driver was later sentenced to more than 30 years in prison because of the incident and drug charges. Arterburn's family sued the dealership for more than $75 million and agreed to a confidential settlement in 2021.
The rating service Super Lawyers named Hutton one of the top 100 attorneys in Kansas and Missouri nine times between 2005 and 2021. He also served as a pro tem judge in Sedgwick County, and was a silent partner with Bill Warren during Warren's ownership of his movie theaters for more than 25 years before a 2017 sale.
source: https://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/2022/01/03/mark-hutton-hutton-law-firm-dies.html
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