BKTP Partners with The Danaher Law Firm To Send a $7.1 Million Message to Predatory Towing Companies in Kansas City.

Brianne Thomas and Josh Sanders of BKTP Law, along with Philip Danaher of the Danaher Law Firm secured a jury verdict of over $7.2 million which they hope will be a warning to tow companies everywhere. “The jury told the industry that they must make changes and cannot take advantage of the citizens of Kansas City any longer,” Thomas said.

Fox4 did a story on the verdict of a case that started in 2022 when a woman parked her food truck, “Crazy Tacos,” in an abandoned parking lot. There were no signs forbidding parking, but when she returned, her food truck, which was her livelihood, was gone.

“They towed the truck after 30 minutes; they towed illegally,” Brianne Thomas, Attorney at Boyd Kenter Thomas & Parish LLC, said.

Over the next two years, the company kept her truck and even started transferring ownership out of her name and into theirs. “They were successful, they had her truck for 699 days,” Thomas said.

Refusing to accept this, the Plaintiff filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s office and hired lawyer Philip Danaher to prepare for a fight.

Now, that fight has been won. A jury awarded $6.9 million in punitive damages, plus another $200,000 in compensatory damages.