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A collision involving two buses will leave one of the drivers with an award of more than $1.8 million even though only the side mirrors on the vehicles may have connected. The 2013 sideswipe accident occurred while driver Mary Moore ...

A St. Louis County probate judge has ruled that a plaintiff will replace his brother as trustee after the latter breached fiduciary duties in the administration of their father’s trust. “It is a good primer on what not to do ...

A Chariton County jury awarded a seven-figure verdict to a train engineer who was injured while attempting to slide his seat backward. Jon Voss filed suit against BNSF in the incident in January 2015. He claimed that when he moved ...

A Ray County case involving injuries a BNSF worker sustained while aligning railway-track equipment has resulted in a $750,000 verdict in favor of the worker. Conductor Cevin Moore was in the process of swinging the equipment, known as a derail, ...

A doctor is not liable for complications that arose after a patient sought a second surgery with another doctor to correct a leg-length discrepancy from her first hip-replacement operation, a Jackson County jury has decided. “She chose to have follow-up ...

A patron at a Platte County tavern will take home more than $400,000 in connection with a chaotic brawl that left her with back, eye and neck injuries. “The way that this trial went is that there was a different ...

A Kansas man who was struck in the head by a personal watercraft under the control of a minor will receive more than $200,000 as part of a settlement. “I think both sides accurately evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of ...

A St. Louis County jury has ruled that a high school is not liable for injuries sustained by a student who fell while attempting to hop a fence. Plaintiff Brendan Florian, a senior at Christian Brothers College High School in ...

A complex and stormy court fight between a prominent St. Louis charitable foundation and its former executive director has concluded with a post-trial settlement by the parties after a mixed verdict from jurors. “There were claims and counterclaims every which ...

A dispute involving wrist surgery and whether it caused an ulnar-nerve injury in a woman’s elbow has concluded with a defense verdict. Plaintiff Emily Kouba required the surgery after falling on her left wrist about seven days earlier, said Bruce ...

A southeast Kansas jury awarded $38.5 million to a young woman paralyzed in a severe traffic accident while waiting to make a left turn into her own driveway in April 2014. “She was in a 1966 Vintage Ford Mustang she ...