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A Henry County jury awarded $13 million to the family of a man crushed to death by the cab of a machine he was attempting to repair.

A lawsuit stemming from a 47-car pileup that killed a Platte City woman and seriously injured her husband in February 2019 has settled for more than $7.9 million, according to the plaintiff’s attorney.

A University of Kansas student injured in a winter 2019 collision with a fleeing motorist in northern Missouri will receive a settlement of four times the other driver’s liability insurance policy limits.

A 22-year-old St. Louis man received a $250,000 settlement after a Missouri Department of Transportation truck backed into his vehicle on an Interstate 44 off-ramp at the Hampton Avenue exit in St. Louis.

A five-car accident in Washington County resulted in a $3.7 million settlement for an injured infant and her mother.

A federal judge on Nov. 17 added more than $4.5 million in prejudgment interest to one of the largest verdicts of recent years following its affirmance on appeal.

A Springfield jury rendered a defense verdict in a fatal truck crash on a highway obscured by smoke from a nearby farmer’s fire.

A Missouri appeals court has affirmed a man’s $10,000 verdict after finding he was not entitled to a new trial based on an allegation of juror misconduct because he took too long to report it to the judge.

A jury has awarded $21 million in damages to a St. Louis couple who filed a design-defect suit against hip-implant system manufacturer Biomet Inc. — an outcome their attorney called the largest-known verdict of its kind in U.S. history.

A federal jury has awarded a Columbia man $750,000 in damages after his wedding ring got caught in home exercise equipment, causing him to lose a finger.

A federal judge has approved an $8.5 million class action settlement to resolve consumers’ claims that O’Reilly Auto Parts deceptively and misleadingly labeled, marketed and sold its name-brand ‘303’ tractor-hydraulic fluid product to consumers.