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A rural Missouri county was found liable for $2 million in damages after a flooded bridge claimed the lives of two children, though the amount was reduced by more than half due to damage caps.

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A woman injured in a collision between a truck and a passenger vehicle in Kansas resulted in a $3.7 million settlement, according to her attorney.

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An elderly Illinois woman who tripped and fell in the parking lot of her church reached a $120,000 settlement, according to her Missouri-based attorney.

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A Clay County judge found more than $6 million in damages for a woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a vehicle rollover, triggering an ongoing effort to recover the judgment from an insurance company.

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A man injured in a car crash in a southern Jackson County city settled a claim against the other driver for $100,000, according to his attorney.

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A low-speed collision that left a woman with persistent neck and back pain settled for $1.625 million following a mistrial, according to the plaintiff’s attorneys.

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A woman injured when another driver ran a red light settled for a total of $350,000, according to her attorney.

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An Iowa school that alleged a contractor’s negligence caused a fire that damaged the school’s roof settled for $4.3 million, according to the school’s St. Louis-based attorney.

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A panel of arbitrators awarded $6 million in damages to the families of two young men killed on a rural Missouri roadway.

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A husband and wife who were injured when their car was struck by a merging vehicle that failed to yield settled their claims for $125,000 each, according to their attorney.

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A Jackson County jury awarded the owners of a shuttered Raytown indoor entertainment center nearly $1.7M in actual damages and another $5M in punitive damages in a dispute with their former landlords over several years’ worth of uncompleted repairs.

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