IN MEMORIAM
1959 – 2018

KEVIN P. SCHNURBUSCH
(DECEASED)
PARTNER

Kevin Schnurbusch was a founding partner of Rynearson, Suess, Schnurbusch & Champion after practicing for 15 years in a large insurance defense firm in St. Louis. A lifelong Missouri resident, he lived in St. Louis County.

Mr. Schnurbusch was a Martindale-Hubbell AV rated trial lawyer with 30 years of courtroom experience including almost 100 trials and arbitrations. He twice had top 10 defense verdicts in Missouri as determined by The Missouri Lawyers Weekly. He regularly defended clients in complex litigation involving product liability, premises liability, highway design and the trucking industry. He handled the defense of class action litigation, particularly involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and toxic tort and asbestos litigation in Missouri and Illinois. He had an extensive practice in insurance coverage matters and provided coverage opinions and handled declaratory judgment litigation regularly in State and Federal Courts in Missouri and Illinois.

Mr. Schnurbusch was a member of the Missouri Law Review at the University of Missouri-Columbia where he graduated in 1985. He was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 1985, the Illinois and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri in 1986 and the Western District of Missouri and the Southern District of Illinois in 1995. Mr. Schnurbusch has appeared before all of Missouri’s appellate courts at both the State and Federal level.

He was a regular speaker in continuing education programs and client seminars on a variety of topics. He has published articles in the area of Missouri tort law and computer technology use in the law firm and was a past author of a chapter in the MoBar CLE Series.

Practice Areas:
Personal Injury
Property Damage Defense
Insurance Coverage Litigation
Computer & Technology Law
Medical Malpractice


Education:
University of Missouri, J.D., 1985
Columbia, MO

University of Missouri, B.A., 1982
Columbia, MO

Licensure:
Missouri Bar
Illinois Bar
United States District Court for the
     Eastern District of Missouri
     Western District of Missouri
United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit

Associations:
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
Illinois State Bar Association
Missouri Bar Association
American Bar Association
Tort & Insurance Practice Section
Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers