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A 21-year-old Independence woman injured in a 2018 two-car collision in her hometown settled a federal negligence suit for $600,000, plus court costs.

The long drought of jury verdicts in civil cases is coming to an end.

A Jackson County jury has, for a second time, found that a Lee’s Summit hospital and physician are not liable for an 80-year-old man’s death after complications from hernia surgery.

A Boone County jury awarded $25,000 to a young girl who suffered facial injuries in an automobile accident.

In two settlements, the designers and builders of a University of Missouri-Kansas City apartment building that was demolished in 2020 because of water and mold damage agreed to settle a suit brought by the University of Missouri.

A federal jury in St. Louis has found a former Steak ‘n Shake worker liable for defamation for her viral Facebook post alleging that a local store sold burgers with live worms in them.

Three Al Jazeera America journalists who were tear-gassed while covering the 2014 protests in Ferguson settled their federal suit against a St. Charles County law enforcement officer for $280,000, according to their attorney.

A woman injured in a motor vehicle accident in St. Charles County reached a $250,000 settlement with the other driver’s insurer, according to her attorney.

A St. Charles County jury held that an emergency room doctor was not liable in the death of a 49-year-old man who was diagnosed with colon cancer several months after being warned only of mild inflammation

A Platte County jury determined that the sellers of a used motorhome did not fraudulently misrepresent it to the Clay County man who bought it.

A man injured while riding his bicycle on a rural road in Kansas received a $250,000 settlement, according to his attorney.