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Ford Motor Co. won a defense verdict in the asbestos-related death of a former brake worker. The company was the last of 60 defendants named in a suit involving the death of Robert Hare, an attorney for Ford, Brita Cantrell ...

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A man run over in a closing-time bar fight won a $5 million verdict, but he lost most of it because a Greene County jury found him at fault for his injuries. Both plaintiffs and defendant declared victories of a ...

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A St. Louis County jury rejected a medical-malpractice claim for a woman’s death after surgery to fix her pacemaker. Sandra Watson, 59, underwent surgery to replace a generator on her pacemaker on Nov. 18, 2010. Her heart stopped during surgery ...

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A Springfield man won a $300,000 award from a federal arbitration panel on claims his broker ravaged his $1 million nest egg with high-risk investments. The award came after a five-day hearing before an arbitration panel that operates through the ...

A woman who slipped on a church’s steps won a $10,000 verdict but took home no damages after the panel found her 90 percent at fault and insurance payments she had already received were deducted from the award. Kimberly Henderson, ...

St. Louis County jurors took only two hours to reject a request that they award $1.6 million to a teen who was severely injured in a 2011 car wreck. The negligence case was brought by plaintiff Elizabeth Campanella, who was ...

A woman reached a $1 million settlement after a tractor-trailer struck the rear of her pickup truck in July 2016. Kathleen Reagan, then 30, was driving through Charleston, Missouri, on Interstate 57 during a severe storm when a tractor-trailer driven ...

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A Clay County jury awarded $540,000 to a former sandblaster who said his company fired him for complaining about dangerous work conditions. Plaintiff Matthew J. Curtis won $40,000 for lost wages and emotional distress and $500,000 in punitive damages against ...

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A federal jury in southern Illinois unanimously ordered Southern Illinois Asphalt Co. to pay nearly $8.17 million to a family related to the deaths of their father and grandfather in a 2005 wreck. Liliya Turubchuck and her family, of Washington, ...

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A woman won a $725,000 settlement after a tractor-trailer driver struck the rear of her vehicle, ending the case a month before a scheduled trial in federal court. Tiffany Pugh, 38, suffered a spinal-disc injury in November 2015 in the ...

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The Penn Warranty Corp. successfully fought off a $4 million class-action claim asserting it bilked customers who bought vehicle-service contracts guaranteed by the company. Jackson County Judge Charles McKenzie on May 24 ruled against the plaintiffs in nearly every assertion ...

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