Tyler Thompson
VerifiedAbout Tyler Thompson
Tyler S. Thompson is the Senior/Managing Partner at Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd, Conway & Stanton, PSC in Louisville, Kentucky, with over 30 years of experience as a plaintiff trial attorney. He focuses on medical malpractice, wrongful death, birth injury, catastrophic injury, products liability, and motor vehicle and trucking accidents. He has secured six jury verdicts exceeding $10 million, including landmark recoveries of $20.8M, $27.3M, and $164M, among the highest in Kentucky history. Named ABOTA Outstanding Plaintiff Trial Attorney of the Year for 2026, he serves as President of the Inner Circle of Advocates (2025, present).
Notable case results
A Warren County jury awarded $27,335,667.87 after a Monarch Environmental garbage truck parked illegally on a rural Kentucky road put a 17-year-old in a coma for 57 days and left her with permanent brain damage.
A Barren County jury awarded $18.27 million after finding that nurses at T.J. Samson Community Hospital disregarded the treating obstetrician's standing Pitocin orders during a 2007 delivery, depriving newborn Tristan Hamilton of oxygen and leaving him with spastic quadriplegia.
Winston v. United States (birth trauma landmark case)
$164M verdict
$27.3M verdict
$20.8M verdict
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
