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A federal court judge has ruled against an injured driver who attempted to collect a half-million dollars from his insurer by stacking underinsured-motorist policies. “The policy language for American Family was clear,” said Robert J. Wulff of Evans & Dixon, ...

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The parents and child of a worker who died in a construction accident in Jefferson City have settled a claim against a concrete company, one of its employees and the manufacturer of the pumping truck that crushed the victim with ...

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A woman and her daughter will see no award from the Jackson County jury that heard their allegations of mechanical problems with a vehicle they purchased from an Independence dealership. Plaintiffs Laura Vaughn and her daughter, Montana Beyers, alleged in ...

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A St. Louis County woman has been awarded a seven-figure judgment stemming from a vehicle crash despite disputes regarding the extent of injury and a split in the allocation of fault. Mutrux Finney represented Anastasia Collier in connection with a ...

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Missouri Lawyers Media soon will be ranking the top verdicts, settlements and defense wins of 2018. To be considered, cases finalized by Nov. 1 must be submitted to us by Nov. 30. We will accept cases settled from Nov. 1 ...

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A Clay County jury has awarded an Excelsior Springs man $11 million in his bad-faith suit against American Family Insurance Co. The jury returned the verdict Nov. 8 following a four-day trial. The jury unanimously awarded Paul Skow $1 million ...

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A 22-year-old Wentzville motorcyclist injured in an August 2016 collision with an SUV in St. Charles has settled a suit against the other driver for $800,000. Brandon R. Mersch was driving his 2003 Honda CBR sport bike on northbound Fifth ...

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A Greene County jury has awarded more than $5 million to a 44-year-old former railroad worker injured in a 2015 fall at a Springfield rail yard. The 10 jurors deemed that defendant BNSF Railway Co. was 80 percent at fault ...

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A woman won a $725,000 settlement after a tractor-trailer driver struck the rear of her vehicle, ending the case a month before a scheduled trial in federal court. Tiffany Pugh, 38, suffered a spinal-disc injury in November 2015 in the ...

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A plaintiff in the federal Eastern District of Missouri has settled a lawsuit against a Missouri city and three of its police officers for $300,000, according to the plaintiff’s attorney, J.C. Pleban of Pleban & Petruska Law in St. Louis. ...

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A Scott County jury awarded nearly $870,000 to the family of a man who died after suffering a year of complications from prostate surgery at a Sikeston hospital. Roosevelt Rhoden underwent a transurethral resection of the prostate at Missouri Delta ...

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