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A teenager who suffered brain damage in a car crash received a total of $1.275 million from two insurers, according to his attorney.
Tagged with: Insurance Motor vehicle collision
Read More »Jury rejects claim after slip-and-fall in Arnold lot
In the US, slip and fall accidents lawsuits are becoming more and more common nowadays, but a jury deliberated 19 minutes before rejecting a woman’s $840,000 claim against the city of Arnold after she fell in a city parking lot. ...
Tagged with: Evans & Dixon premises liability
Read More »Parents of toddlers abused at Kansas daycare win $350,000 at trial
A jury awarded $350,000 to families of toddlers whom eyewitnesses said were abused at an Emporia State University-run daycare center. The unanimous verdict against the school and its daycare director came in less than three hours after a six-day trial ...
Tagged with: Department of Children and Families Emporia State University Personal Injury Case
Read More »Family wins suit for chef’s post-surgery death
The family of a chef to celebrities and a U.S. president won $1 million for his death after a post-operative emergency room visit. Marcel Bonetti, 73, was head chef of the Pro Bass Shops in Springfield and then personal chef ...
Tagged with: Johnson Vorhees & Martucci Marcel Bonetti Medical Malpractice Case
Read More »$7.7M verdict in birth injuries case triggers settlement
A jury delivered a medical malpractice verdict of more than $7.68 million to a mother and her son whose brain was damaged by forceps during his August 2016 birth. The Jasper County jury decision found Dr. Larry Clark and Freeman ...
Tagged with: Freeman Health Systems Johnson Vorhees & Martu Medical Malpractice Case
Read More »Ford Motor Co. wins at trial in asbestos-death case
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 ...
Tagged with: Ford Motor Co. McAfee & Taft product liability Robert Hare Wrongful Death Case
Read More »Man run over in bar fight wins and loses in verdict
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 ...
Tagged with: Cartoons’s Oyster Bar & Grill Creative Dining Concepts Grant Rahmeyer Greene County Igor Misyuk Javier Trevino Strong-Garner-Bauer
Read More »Jury rejects family’s medical claim in death of mother
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 ...
Tagged with: death medical malpractice SSM DePaul Health Center surgery
Read More »Man wins award in complaint against broker
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 ...
Read More »Plaintiff nets nothing after jury faults her for injuries
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, ...
Read More »Jury rejects claim in teens’ 2011 highway car accident
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 verdict came after a three-day trial and following the kansas ...
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