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Family members of Kathleen Koutroubis, the 73-year-old grandmother killed in 2016 by a drag-racing wreck in Frontenac, have settled with two defendants in their wrongful-death lawsuit. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company paid the deceased woman’s sons, James and John ...

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Attorneys from the Kansas City-based law firm German May reached a $10.1 million settlement on behalf of USIC, an Indianapolis company that specializes in locating underground utilities. The settlement brings to a close a lawsuit USIC filed against a competitor ...

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The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a girl’s claims that the department used excessive force by employing a flash-bang grenade in her home in 2010, causing her long-term harm. U.S. District Judge ...

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An infant injured at birth at a federally funded health care facility in Illinois reached a $1 million settlement with the U.S. government, according to his attorneys. Rachel Roman and David Zevan of Zevan Davidson Roman in St. Louis said ...

Tagged with: Federal Tort Claims Act medical malpractice U.S. District Court for Southern District of Illinois Zevan Davidson Roman

A Jackson County circuit judge nearly slashed in half a $6.03 million verdict for a Kansas City company that makes and sells custom awards and promotional materials. In an Oct. 29 order, Judge John M. Torrence ruled that a punitive ...

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A Kansas City woman who was injured by an Overland Park, Kansas, driver in a rear-end collision received a $40,000 award from Jackson County jurors. “It was on icy roads,” said Jared Rose, who represented the plaintiff. “My client was ...

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A 63-year-old motorcyclist whose injuries from a 2016 collision led to an above-the-knee amputation settled a lawsuit against another motorist and that man’s employer for about $3.29 million. On April 15, 2016, St. Charles County resident Gregory James Kneemiller was ...

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The family of a teenager who suffered a traumatic brain injury while in a Franklin County, Kansas, jail reached a $3 million settlement with the county. T.J. Preuss of Preuss Foster Law said the 15-year old, identified as A.B., was ...

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A claim of negligent entrustment helped to secure a $1.15 million settlement in a crash involving two college students and a car owned by one of their fathers. “My guy was driving a car around a curve when a BMW ...

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After a five-day trial, a St. Louis County Police Department sergeant won a nearly $20 million jury verdict on claims of sex/gender discrimination and retaliation under the Missouri Human Rights Act. Keith Wildhaber, who is gay and a 25-year veteran ...

Tagged with: employment Retaliation Sex Discrimination Sgt. Keith Wildhaber St. Louis County Circuit Court

A jury delivered a medical malpractice verdict of more than $7.68 million to a mother and her son whose brain was damaged by forceps during his August 2016 birth. The Jasper County jury decision found Dr. Larry Clark and Freeman ...

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