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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 ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision

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 ...

Tagged with: Missouri Merchandising Practices Act Penn Warranty Corp

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 ...

Tagged with: Defense Judgement Millionaire's Cove product liability U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Verdicts & Settlement

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 ...

Tagged with: Allstate arson contract Verdicts & Settlements Western District

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 ...

A Kansas City jury awarded a lawyer nearly $130,000 after finding a building owner breached a lease agreement for office space even though the lawyer did not sign a portion of the contract. In March 2016, consumer bankruptcy attorney Joe ...

A jury awarded a father and his son $3,750 for injuries sustained in a rear-end collision in May 2011. The award was roughly the same amount as the pair’s emergency room charges. Though it was plaintiffs’ verdict, the amount was ...

A Boone County jury rejected a man’s personal injury claim against a restaurant that offered shuttle service to and from college football games after he fell stepping out the vehicle’s emergency back exit. The June 1 verdict ended a 2013 ...