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A St. Louis County jury rejected a claim by a Schnuck Markets shopper injured after being knocked down by a cashier while checking out of the grocer’s Overland Plaza store. Deborah Parker-Johnson sued the St. Louis-based supermarket chain in April ...

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The widow of a 77-year-old Blue Springs man killed while walking into an auto-repair shop’s garage settled a wrongful-death suit against the business, the employee who drove the sport-utility vehicle that struck her husband and the vehicle’s owners for a ...

Tagged with: Bill Sanders Laurie Del Percio Wrongful Death Case

The widow of a 40-year-old Potosi man killed while trying to redirect traffic at an accident scene settled a wrongful-death suit for a total of $765,000 against the local volunteer fire department and the 18-year-old EMT who struck the man ...

Tagged with: Gary Burger Motor vehicle collision wrongful death

A 35-year-old Ladue woman injured in a February 2015 rear-end collision won $650,000 from a St. Louis County jury after the at-fault driver’s insurer rejected a considerably smaller policy-limits settlement demand. Maranda Cocking was hit from behind while driving a ...

Tagged with: Jennifer Hawkins Maranda Cocking Motor vehicle collision

A Cass County jury rejected a Belton couple’s efforts to collect on a $440,000 judgment related to a 2015 motor-vehicle collision. James and Hadley Maloney sued Benchmark Insurance Co. and the other driver, Karla Coronado, in 2018 to collect on ...

Tagged with: Insurance case Motor vehicle collision

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 ...

Tagged with: John Simon Motor vehicle collision

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. ...

Tagged with: Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. Hartford Fire Insurance Co. Insurance case Poplar Bluff Industries U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

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 ...

Tagged with: employment discrimination Lt. Jeffrey Lange Sgt. Scott Walker

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 ...

Tagged with: Brown & James medical malpractice Mercy Hospital wrongful death

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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