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A 65-year-old St. Charles County man who was injured when a commercial truck hit his Jeep from behind settled a suit against the other driver and the driver’s employer, a Cape Girardeau hardware store, for slightly more than $1.5 million. ...

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An Independence man who was injured while trying to extricate his vehicle after it slid into a ditch settled an uninsured-motorist claim with his employer’s insurer for $500,000. The plaintiff, identified by his attorney as P.T., was injured on the ...

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A St. Louis County jury rejected a medical-malpractice claim for a woman’s death after surgery to fix her pacemaker. Sandra Watson, 59, underwent surgery to replace a generator on her pacemaker on Nov. 18, 2010. Her heart stopped during surgery ...

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A judge overseeing the sexual harassment and retaliation case of a Jackson County Sheriff’s deputy against his employer has thrown out $300,000 in punitive damages awarded by a jury following the trial. On May 8, Judge Roger M. Prokes, a ...

A Jackson County jury has awarded $6,037,541 in damages to a Kansas City small business that alleged a former employee took proprietary information to his new employer, a direct competitor. The jury returned the unanimous verdict May 6 for the ...

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A Jackson County jury awarded a Kansas City Water Services Department employee $130,000 in damages in his workplace-retaliation suit. The award included $55,000 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages. The jury found for the city, however, on additional ...

A Springfield man won a $300,000 award from a federal arbitration panel on claims his broker ravaged his $1 million nest egg with high-risk investments. The award came after a five-day hearing before an arbitration panel that operates through the ...

The family of a woman killed in a trucking accident reached a $4.3 million settlement regarding her death, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs. The law firm of O’Leary, Shelton, Corrigan, Peterson, Dalton & Quillin in St. Louis said the ...

A St. Charles County jury sided with a volunteer assistant softball coach after a ball he hit struck a girl in the nose. O’Fallon, Missouri, resident Kaitlyn Kirby, then 11, alleged she permanently lost her sense of smell and taste ...

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A 53-year-old Kansas City motorcyclist who needed multiple surgeries and missed several months of work after colliding with a pickup truck last September has settled a claim with the other driver’s insurer for $1.25 million. J. McCune was riding his ...

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A St. Louis woman accepted $350,000 to settle her claims after suffering severe neck injuries in a rear-end collision, according to her attorney. Deborah L. Doak of Brown & Crouppen’s St. Louis office said the 70-year-old woman was returning home ...