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A Kansas City jogger will collect $63,000 from a motorist who struck her while trying to avoid a traffic jam. Caylin Slavin was on an afternoon run in April 2016, when she stopped at a crosswalk at 27th and Cherry ...

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A St. Charles County jury sided with a pickup-truck driver sued by two athletes who claimed that injuries from a rear-end collision curtailed their chances at professional sports careers. The case later settled after a judge granted a new trial. ...

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A federal judge dismissed a couple’s product liability lawsuit against Bosch Thermotechnology Corp., which alleged that a Bosch water heater started a house fire at Millionaire’s Cove at Lake of the Ozarks. Thomas E. Howard and Janice K. Howard left ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Sept. 4 upheld a jury award of $3.8 million to a couple in Holt County whose farm was ravaged by floodwater after a railroad embankment collapsed. Thomas and Dana Tubbs had sued ...

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St. Louis County jurors have ruled that a doctor is not liable in the death of a woman who died after one of her blood vessels tore during a cardiac catheterization. Plaintiff Thomas Grellner is the surviving husband of patient ...

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The children of a woman killed in a fatal crash involving a dump truck have agreed to settle their wrongful-death lawsuit against the truck’s driver and two associated companies for $1.9 million, according to the family’s lawyers. Andrew Nantz and ...

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A Cass County man who suffered facial numbness in the wake of a car crash will receive $500,000 in compensation as a result of a recent settlement. Dennis Pittman was injured in 2015 after William Francis Keuchel failed to yield ...

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A motorcyclist planning a Navy career has received a $1.25 million settlement after colliding with a vehicle even though he faced several charges in relation to the crash in St. Louis County. Motorcyclist Troy William Moore, 20, of Eureka, broke ...

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A woman who alleged she suffered a brain injury in a motor-vehicle collision reached a $2.5 million settlement two months before the case was set to go to trial, according to her attorneys. The plaintiff, represented by Joshua P. Myers ...

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A former Allstate agent who was sued and accused of arson by his own company won a judgment from a jury that wanted to give him more than the law allowed. A federal jury in Springfield awarded defendant Elmer Davis ...

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A St. Louis jury has awarded a St. Joseph woman $8.5 million in damages in her racial discrimination and retaliation suit against Spire, Missouri’s largest natural gas utility company. The jury unanimously returned the verdict for Danielle McGaughy, 47, on ...

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