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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 ...

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A judge overseeing the sexual harassment and retaliation case of a Jackson County Sheriff’s deputy against his employer has thrown out $300,000 in punitive damages awarded by a jury following the trial. On May 8, Judge Roger M. Prokes, a ...

A Jackson County jury has awarded $6,037,541 in damages to a Kansas City small business that alleged a former employee took proprietary information to his new employer, a direct competitor. The jury returned the unanimous verdict May 6 for the ...

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A Jackson County jury awarded a Kansas City Water Services Department employee $130,000 in damages in his workplace-retaliation suit. The award included $55,000 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages. The jury found for the city, however, on additional ...

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 ...

The family of a woman killed in a trucking accident reached a $4.3 million settlement regarding her death, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs. The law firm of O’Leary, Shelton, Corrigan, Peterson, Dalton & Quillin in St. Louis said the ...

A St. Charles County jury sided with a volunteer assistant softball coach after a ball he hit struck a girl in the nose. O’Fallon, Missouri, resident Kaitlyn Kirby, then 11, alleged she permanently lost her sense of smell and taste ...

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A 53-year-old Kansas City motorcyclist who needed multiple surgeries and missed several months of work after colliding with a pickup truck last September has settled a claim with the other driver’s insurer for $1.25 million. J. McCune was riding his ...

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A St. Louis woman accepted $350,000 to settle her claims after suffering severe neck injuries in a rear-end collision, according to her attorney. Deborah L. Doak of Brown & Crouppen’s St. Louis office said the 70-year-old woman was returning home ...

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, ...

A St. Louis County jury sided with a 57-year-old woman accused of striking a Ferguson Sam’s Club customer with her car in an argument about a parking space in June 2012. In a 2015 complaint, Pamela Prosser of Granite City, ...