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A $20 million jury award to a four-year-old child, who was injured when hit by a truck, was reversed and remanded last week by the Missouri Supreme Court, and in the process the high court abolished the “tender years doctrine.” ...

A driver who lived in Jefferson County, and was injured in a one-car accident there, did not have to go to Cole County to sue the State Highway and Transportation Commission even though the Commission “resides” in Cole County under ...

Even though § 408.040, RSMo Supp. 1991, says prejudgment interest on verdicts in tort cases “shall” be calculated from 60 days after the date a settlement offer was rejected, a personal injury plaintiff who had not asked for prejudgment interest ...

The manufacturer of Q-Tip swabs could be liable for $1.55 million in damages for injury to a five-year-old child who was hurt when he poked the swab in his ear canal since the manufacturer (1) failed to warn about the ...

The Missouri Court of Appeals’ Eastern District has vacated its February 3 written opinion in Matteuzzi v. The Columbus Partnership, L.P., et al., MLW No. DE-5136, on landowner liability for “inherently dangerous activity.” The appeals court has transferred the case ...

Even though § 536.087, RSMo Supp. 1992, allows parties who “prevail” when sued by state agencies in administrative cases to get attorneys’ fees, a veterinarian who won on eight of ten charges filed by the State Veterinary Medical Board but ...

Family Law Get Blood Test Results Into Evidence With No Witnesses In a paternity case, you can get blood test results admitted into evidence without calling any chain of custody or expert witnesses, if you do it right. Yokley v. ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has declined a request from the Court of Appeals to change the law on “co-employee liability” under the Workers’ Comp Act. Instead, the Supreme Court has reaffirmed a half-century of Missouri law that allows a worker ...

A father who sought to modify a custody decree entered before August 1984 and who failed to show a change of circumstances on the part of the child or the mother should, nonetheless, be granted joint legal and joint physical ...

Dear Editor: Last fall Missouri Lawyers Weekly ran a story indicating some notoriety in the fact a case had been tried three times. That was Stolfus v. Musselman & Hall Construction Inc., et al., MLW No. DW-3529. Let me tell ...

Where an attorney defending a civil rights suit dramatically dropped a ten-foot-long computer printout in front of a jury while cross-examining the plaintiff about his prior arrest record, the attorney’s “theatrics” required reversal of a defense verdict entered for his ...