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A jury verdict returned on March 8 in St. Louis County Circuit Court may be the highest to date for a claim under the dog-bite statute enacted a decade ago. Jurors awarded damages of $250,000 to the plaintiff, a minor ...

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A Jasper County jury awarded $900,000 to a Joplin teenager whose car was struck by another teen who was alleged to be texting while driving. The jury assessed 16 percent of the fault to plaintiff Olivia Kelly, resulting in a ...

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Jackson County jury ruled that a pharmaceutical company did not discriminate based on gender in firing one of its male managers, but it levied a seven-figure award based on claims of retaliation and failure to provide a proper service letter. ...

A former Kansas City Water Services Department employee had enough evidence to support her claim against the city for a hostile work environment, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District recently ruled. In a March 5 decision, the court affirmed ...

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A veterinarian remains on the hook for his portion of a $5 million verdict for a student who was injured while vaccinating cattle. In a March 7 ruling, the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District affirmed the judgment against Dr. ...

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A Camdenton couple has reached a $5.1 million settlement in their case against the U.S. government for a birth injury that occurred at a federally funded clinic. The couple, Jamie and Nathan Searcy, filed suit in 2016 in the U.S. ...

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A College of the Ozarks student who lost four fingers while mixing feed has agreed to settle her product-liability suit stemming from the incident for $2 million. The student, Heather Murry, was injured on Jan. 14, 2016, according to her ...

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A 23-year-old St. Charles County mother whose newborn died soon after labor and delivery complications settled a wrongful-death claim against St. Louis-based SSM Health for $750,000. Plaintiff’s attorney Matt O’Grady said his client’s infant daughter Ariel was declared dead 10 ...

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A Camden County jury has decided the owners of a house with severe wood rot did not mislead the couple to whom it was sold, but the court did find a defendant home-inspection company responsible for the damage. “The jury ...

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A woman reached a $1 million settlement after a tractor-trailer struck the rear of her pickup truck in July 2016. Kathleen Reagan, then 30, was driving through Charleston, Missouri, on Interstate 57 during a severe storm when a tractor-trailer driven ...

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  The Simon Law Firm rarely hires anyone fresh out of law school. They made an exception for Patrick McPhail, who graduated from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2017. And after only 18 months as an attorney at ...

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