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A 59-year-old St. Louis County man injured in a multicar collision in April 2018 on Interstate 270 near the Chain of Rocks Bridge settled a personal injury suit against a Florida trucking company, its driver and a third motorist for ...

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A southeast Missouri economic development agency that sued its insurers in federal court in regard to a weather-damaged building settled the complaint for $5.5 million. Poplar Bluff Industries settled the suit against Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. ...

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An O’Fallon police lieutenant and sergeant settled a joint lawsuit in St. Charles County against the city, its former chief and two higher-ranking officers for a total of $550,000. Sgt. Scott Walker and Lt. Jeffrey Lange sued the city, now-retired ...

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A St. Louis County jury rejected a medical-malpractice claim by the family of a man who died following his admission to Mercy Hospital for atrial fibrillation. The jury deliberated for about two hours following a seven-day trial in July. The ...

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A black St. Louis police captain who claimed he was made a scapegoat to cover up misconduct by a group of white officers settled a suit against the city for more than $1.1 million. Former Chief Sam Dotson fired Ryan ...

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The family of a 60-year-old mid-Missouri man killed in a collision involving an uninsured driver reached a $1.025 million settlement of a wrongful-death complaint with multiple insurers. Steven Tracy Smart of Tebbetts died at the scene of the collision on ...

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A St. Louis County jury found the city of Berkeley violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide suitable accommodations to a 31-year-old corrections officer who was terminated soon after he was hospitalized with a heart ailment. ...

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A federal jury in St. Louis awarded more than $3 million in damages to a family-owned beverage distributor that sued a Dr Pepper subsidiary for breach of contract after losing its 27-year contract with the bottler. Paul Beverage Co. of ...

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The parents of a 19-year-old college sophomore who drowned at a popular water park near Rolla settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the business and its owners for $1 million. David Jackson was a Saint Louis University High School graduate and ...

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A 63-year-old motorcyclist whose injuries from a 2016 collision led to an above-the-knee amputation settled a lawsuit against another motorist and that man’s employer for about $3.29 million. On April 15, 2016, St. Charles County resident Gregory James Kneemiller was ...

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A 51-year-old truck driver injured in a 2016 collision with a second long-haul trucker in southern Illinois settled a federal lawsuit against the other driver and his employer for $528,000. Edward Gray, who was 48 at the time, suffered a ...

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