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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 ...

An elderly couple won a $2.1 million verdict in their second fraud case to go to trial against a Kansas City car dealer. David and Diana Heckadon were already owed $647,334 from Chad Franklin, his now-defunct car dealership and his ...

A mother of three young children won a $1.7 million settlement from a movie theater company for injuries sustained in a fall on New Year’s Day. After a movie date to see a Star Wars movie, Amanda Davis and her ...

A jury in Texas awarded $1.65 million to a group of Curves health club owners who claim Curves International Inc. failed to honor franchise agreements to promote and maintain the businesses so they would be profitable. Curves International filed a ...

A 2009 wreck prompted years of physical therapy and surgery and finally a $175,000 settlement this year for Garland “Bruce” Milholen. Milholen, of Bolivar, received the settlement in February, ending a 2015 personal injury lawsuit against a driver who caused ...

A federal jury ordered Nationwide Affinity Insurance Company to pay $225,000 to a man who suffered neck injuries in a car wreck that aggravated a longstanding pre-existing condition. After the February verdict, the company won a motion to reduce the ...

A St. Louis County jury decided several businesses were not to blame when a woman fell outside a grocery store and died 10 days later of complications from the accident. The family of Michelle Sangster McNeil sought $3 million at ...