Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

2020 gave a whole new meaning to the concept of the vanishing trial. During the course of the year, Missouri Lawyers Media reported just 22 trials in Missouri that reached a plaintiffs’ or defense verdict of any size.

A woman received a $300,000 settlement for head injuries she suffered after slipping on a slick surface at her apartment complex in Illinois, according to her attorney.

An employee who investigated civil rights claims for the city of Kansas City has settled her own sex-discrimination and retaliation suit against her employer for $450,000.

The U.S. government has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a medical malpractice suit brought by the family of a man who died while being treated for cancer at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia.

The Kansas City Council has approved a $250,000 settlement between the city and a Black firefighter who alleged Kansas City Fire Department officials discriminated against him by promoting less qualified, white employees over him.

The Lee’s Summit R-7 School District has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a Raytown woman’s claim that the district discriminated against her when it declined to hire her as its executive director of public relations.

The attorneys representing a class of consumers who alleged State Farm Life Insurance Company systematically overcharged universal life insurance policyholders will receive $11.4 million in attorneys’ fees for their work on the case.

A St. Louis County judge on Jan. 27 issued a $39 million judgment in favor of a large group of Missouri municipalities, resolving litigation that had gone on for more than a decade and has been in the process of ending for more than a year.

A federal judge in Kansas has awarded $1.04 million in damages to a veteran who alleged a physician assistant sexually abused him while he was under the assistant’s care at the Leavenworth VA Medical Center.

A southern Missouri jury sided with a 40-year-old Cabool man sued by a Neosho woman and her business partner whose vehicle was struck in the rear after they pulled over for a passing ambulance.

A 34-year-old mother who was injured in a bus collision reached a settlement with the Bi-State Development Agency for about $435,000, according to her attorney.