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Jurors returned a $1 million verdict for injuries suffered in a car accident that barely left scratches on the plaintiff’s 2011 Toyota Prius. “The bumper wasn’t even dented, so that was a big hurdle for us, something we knew would ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision Schultz Myers

The fate of a $34.3M class-action verdict against State Farm could be based on the meaning of the term “based on” in the company’s life insurance policies. The June 2018 verdict in federal court in Jefferson City was the fifth-largest ...

Tagged with: class-action verdict Judge Nanette K. Laughrey State Farm Insurance

A jury found a now-deceased driver liable for $7 million in damages related to an accident in which he struck a motorcycle, causing its driver to suffer catastrophic injuries. Although motorcyclist Michael Scobee and his wife Linda were residents of ...

Tagged with: defendant ad litem Holland Law Firm personal injury verdict

A St. Louis woman won a $125,000 award in an animal-attack case that hinged on whether the accused dog was indeed the right canine. “The main question in the case was, did the plaintiff’s evidence sufficiently identify the defendant’s dog ...

Tagged with: Dog Attack Growe Eisen Karlen Eilerts personal injury verdict

A 39-year-old mentally disabled woman who was sexually assaulted by another resident of a group home settled her claim for $1.75 million, according to her attorney. Jill Kanatzar of Dollar Burns & Becker in Kansas City said the victim, who ...

Tagged with: Dollar Burns & Becker Negligence sexual assault

The parents of a 19-year-old college sophomore who drowned at a popular water park near Rolla settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the business and its owners for $1 million. David Jackson was a Saint Louis University High School graduate and ...

Tagged with: David Jackson Fugitive Beach wrongful death lawsuit

Family members of Kathleen Koutroubis, the 73-year-old grandmother killed in 2016 by a drag-racing wreck in Frontenac, have settled with two defendants in their wrongful-death lawsuit. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company paid the deceased woman’s sons, James and John ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Koutroubis wrongful-death settlement

Attorneys from the Kansas City-based law firm German May reached a $10.1 million settlement on behalf of USIC, an Indianapolis company that specializes in locating underground utilities. The settlement brings to a close a lawsuit USIC filed against a competitor ...

Tagged with: Commercial dispute Consolidated Infrastructure Group German May USIC

The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a girl’s claims that the department used excessive force by employing a flash-bang grenade in her home in 2010, causing her long-term harm. U.S. District Judge ...

Tagged with: excessive force lawsuit flash-bang grenade Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners

An infant injured at birth at a federally funded health care facility in Illinois reached a $1 million settlement with the U.S. government, according to his attorneys. Rachel Roman and David Zevan of Zevan Davidson Roman in St. Louis said ...

Tagged with: Federal Tort Claims Act medical malpractice U.S. District Court for Southern District of Illinois Zevan Davidson Roman