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A 52-year old man who was injured in a crash with a semi-truck settled with the truck’s driver and the motor carrier’s insurer for $6.8 million, according to his attorney.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on April 13 upheld a nearly $9.1 million arbitration award for a man who was stabbed at a campground.

A man injured by a charging dog reached a $100,000 settlement with its owner, according to the plaintiff’s attorney.

For the first time in a decade, the St. Louis office of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner will have a new leader.

A lawsuit against the University of Missouri-Kansas City filed under Missouri and Kansas law will get the benefit of neither, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled April 6.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District threw out a lawsuit by the family of a man who died at an automotive plant, saying it should have gone through the workers’ compensation system even if the claims didn’t involve a workplace injury.

Seven years ago, the state’s court system ordered municipal clerks to start collecting an extra $3 to help fund a state retirement system. Now the Missouri Supreme Court is weighing whether it’s necessary to sue those clerks in order to challenge the constitutionality of the charge.

Missouri lawmakers appear poised to close what critics describe as a “loophole” in a recently passed law that allows insurers to intervene in suits that they have declined to fully defend.

The Appellate Judicial Commission announced April 15 that eight women and 17 men applied for the vacancy left by the March 8 retirement of Judge Laura Denvir Stith after 20 years on the high court.

A man injured when another driver lost control on a Kansas City-area highway reached a $100,000 settlement, according to his attorney.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled April 5 that an insurer’s “crime” exclusion justified its denial of coverage for a man killed while speeding through a no-passing zone.