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A St. Louis County jury has awarded $75,000 in damages to a boy who fell into a fire pit at his sister’s soccer team practice — an award hailed by defense lawyers who faced several six- and seven-figure pretrial demands.

A Buchanan County jury found the Missouri Department of Corrections liable for a total of $275,000 after failing to address coworkers who allegedly discriminated against a lesbian employee.

A Camden County jury determined that a homeowners association is not liable for a landslide that destroyed the residence of a Camdenton couple. 

The Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled that the state of Missouri is not responsible for most of its share of a $13.825 million settlement reached in 2018 with family of a man freed after 30 years of wrongful incarceration.

A Linn County jury found a local farm implement dealership mostly at fault for the death of a truck driver, awarding nearly $2 million to the man’s widow.

A Clay County jury rejected claims from the surviving family members of a 58-year-old woman whose death they attributed to complications from a spinal injection.

Each year, Missouri Lawyers Media scours its Verdicts & Settlements database to recognize the state-licensed attorneys who achieved the largest verdicts, settlements, judgments and defense wins of the past 12 months.

The widow of a man who died in the wake of a medical procedure will receive a $1.25 million settlement from the trucking company involved in a traffic accident with him more than two years earlier. 

A man who was severely and permanently injured when the tire of his truck catastrophically failed reached a $37.5 million settlement with the manufacturer and distributor, according to his attorney.

A former Missouri Department of Corrections officer who alleged her supervisor mistreated by because she was a Lebanese Muslim has been awarded $140,000 in damages by a Callaway County jury. 

Nine years after he was tasered in his home by a police officer delivering a parking ticket, a Hermann truck driver has been awarded $650,000 by a federal jury in St. Louis — including half a million dollars in punitive damages.