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An Iowa woman injured during a family Fourth of July celebration in Boone County reached a $250,000 settlement with an insurer for her future in-law. “One of the mortars must have been knocked over or broken or something,” said plaintiff’s ...

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A late-night shoving match that ended with a gunshot in a St. Louis diner parking lot resulted in a verdict for the defense. Joshua Davis of Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice defended concealed-carry permit holder James Bommarito in connection with ...

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A woman involved in a rear-end car accident won $275,000 in a case complicated by the unexpected death of the defendant during the course of an earlier trial. “She didn’t come to trial in the morning, and I sent my ...

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A northern Missouri jury ruled that county road officials were not liable in the death of a 9-year-girl who drowned after the car in which she was riding tumbled into a stream. “The road, and primarily the condition of the ...

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A St. Louis County jury ruled that two brothers were not at fault after an intoxicated young man lost consciousness at their home and later died. Plaintiffs Batool and Sarwar Ahmed alleged that Devin and Eric Homan had “failed to ...

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A Jefferson County woman who struck the rear of a tractor-trailer truck reached a $1 million settlement with the truck’s insurer, according to her attorneys. Michael J. Dalton Jr. and Michael Shelton of O’Leary, Shelton, Corrigan, Peterson, Dalton & Quillin ...

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An Illinois woman settled injury claims against a driver who struck her vehicle from behind for $100,000, according to her attorney. Brandon L. Jackson of Brown & Crouppen said the plaintiff was stopped on the ramp from westbound Interstate 255 ...

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A federal judge has awarded a Cape Girardeau couple $5.7 million in damages after finding that the federal government, through the Department of Veterans Affairs, was negligent in failing to timely diagnose a man’s prostate cancer. On Dec. 30, U.S. ...

Tagged with: Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Tort Claims Act Rossiter and Boock U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

The Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District affirmed a nearly $870,000 verdict for the family of a man who died of complications from prostate surgery at a Sikeston hospital. Roosevelt Rhoden underwent a transurethral resection of the prostate at Missouri ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals has affirmed a $1.1 million verdict in a contested-will case from Clay County. On Dec. 31, a three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District unanimously affirmed the verdict for plaintiffs Randy Netherton, ...

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Weeks before a scheduled trial, a Kansas City couple settled their civil conspiracy and due-process claims against Clay County Collector of Revenue Lydia McAvoy. According to the settlement agreement, which was obtained through a public-records request, the county on Dec. ...

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