Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas, Hanschen & Peters, LLC
219 South Kingshighway, P.O. Box 805, Sikeston, MO 63801, Sikeston, MO 63801
About Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas, Hanschen & Peters, LLC
Blanton, Nickell, Collins, Douglas, Hanschen & Peters LLC is a Missouri-based law firm with over 110 years of experience. Operating from Sikeston, the firm serves 30 counties in the southeastern region and the St. Louis area. Its attorneys handle civil litigation, including personal injury, medical malpractice defense, and product liability. They have secured significant results, including a $265 million jury award and a $1.51 billion class action settlement. The firm also employs three full-time nurse consultants.
Our Attorneys
Joseph C. Blanton, Jr.
Attorney
38+ years experience
Bryan E. Nickell
Attorney
31+ years experience
Thomas W. Collins, III
Attorney
28+ years experience
Patrick R. Douglas
Attorney
23+ years experience
Shaun D. Hanschen
Attorney
21+ years experience
Diedre Peters
Attorney
10+ years experience
Mark D. Blanton
Attorney
6+ years experience
Tony C. “Trey” Watkins, III
Attorney
5+ years experience
Notable Case Results
Case results are sourced directly from attorney websites by Injuria.ai's data infrastructure, which actively monitors 22,000+ personal injury law firms. They are not results obtained by ThatCarHitMe.com. Every case is unique and must be evaluated on its own facts. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. The results shown are not necessarily representative of all results obtained by these firms.
$1.5B
Class Action, Agricultural Law, Product Liability
Tentative settlement reached between Syngenta Corporation and Farmers who have been damaged economically as a result of Syngenta’s premature marketing of two genetically modified strains of corn Agrisure Viptera® and Agrisure Duracade™ that were outlawed in China.
$265M
Agricultural Law, Product Liability
Jury awarded $15 Million in compensatory damages and $250 Million in punitive damages to Bader Farms, a peach grower in Southeast Missouri, in the first trial in the multidistrict litigation involving farmers suing Monsanto’s successor Bayer AG and German Chemical conglomerate BASF over crop damages from off-target movement of Dicamba Herbicide.
$173,000
Insurance Law, Life Insurance
Joseph Blanton, Shaun Hanschen and John Cozean obtained a summary judgment for a firm client in a lawsuit against a large insurance company that had denied liability under a life insurance policy. The U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Southeastern Division, ruled that the firm’s client should recover the face amount of the policy, $173,000, after finding that the client was entitled to reformation of the policy’s beneficiary form.
$30,000
Premises Liability, Personal Injury
Joseph Blanton and Shaun Hanschen obtained a pre-suit settlement for a client in a premises liability suit. The client suffered a broken arm in the incident.