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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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A federal judge dismissed a couple’s product liability lawsuit against Bosch Thermotechnology Corp., which alleged that a Bosch water heater started a house fire at Millionaire’s Cove at Lake of the Ozarks. Thomas E. Howard and Janice K. Howard left ...

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A former Allstate agent who was sued and accused of arson by his own company won a judgment from a jury that wanted to give him more than the law allowed. A federal jury in Springfield awarded defendant Elmer Davis ...

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A financial manager and father of two received a $785,000 settlement for injuries he received in a multi-vehicle wreck in 2016. Plaintiff Gregg Lippert retained $329,685 of the proceeds. His attorney John Wilbers received $273,383, and medical providers were paid ...

A Cape Girardeau jury ordered St. Francis Medical Center to pay $1.94 million to a woman who suffered permanent bladder damage after surgery at the hospital. Carolyn Boatwright, 51, received $1.66 million in future medical damages and $283,054 for other ...

An Illinois judge has ruled an ousted packaging-company president must pay his former employer $4.57 million for running a competing business on the side. Petter Packaging Co., in Dupo, Illinois, and owner Robert Petter sued the company’s former president Charles ...

A St. Louis window supplier for an Auburn University dormitory project was exonerated in a $1.1 million arbitration claim against it and instead won attorneys’ fees and costs. Winco Window Co. supplied 1,760 windows to the Alabama school, many of ...