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A jury has sided with a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant accused of suppressing exculpatory evidence in the case of Brad Jennings, who was convicted of killing his wife and later found to have been wrongfully convicted. On Feb. 25, ...

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An Idaho woman will receive about $29,500 in damages after signing up for a vacation club that failed to rescind her contract with a competitor. “She realized after she bought [it] that she had been duped,” plaintiffs’ attorney Russ Schenewerk ...

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A Ballwin woman reached a $100,000 settlement with the insurer for a driver who rear-ended her vehicle, according to her attorney. Deborah L. Doak of Brown & Crouppen said her client was an active, healthy and physically fit 78-year-old who ...

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A Blue Springs motorcyclist who impaled himself on the corner of a parked trailer during a turn settled his claims for $113,500. Plaintiff’s attorney Laurie Del Percio of Horn Law Firm represented Douglas Stacer, whose severe injuries included a pelvic ...

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Former KSHB-TV 41 reporter Demetrice “Dee” Jackson has settled his discrimination and retaliation claims against the TV station in Kansas City. On Feb. 17, Jackson and the station’s owner, Scripps Media Inc., filed a joint stipulation of dismissal with prejudice. ...

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A St. Louis woman reached a $125,000 settlement with two insurers after another vehicle struck her car so forcefully that she had to be cut from the wreck, according to the woman’s attorney. Deborah Doak of Brown & Crouppen’s St. ...

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A Cahokia, Illinois, woman who suffered injuries to her neck, back and knee received a $100,000 settlement from the driver who struck the rear of her vehicle, according to her attorney. James F. Ram of Brown & Crouppen said his ...

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A Jackson County judge approved a nonmonetary settlement in a wrongful-death suit that requires a gun dealer to get out of the firearms business. The settlement partially resolved the suit brought last year by Alvino and Beverly Crawford, who alleged ...

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A jury’s decision to award a southeast Missouri peach farm $265 million in damages — including $250 million in punitive damages — for its negligent design suit against Monsanto Company and BASF Corporation surprised even the farm’s attorneys. Billy Randles ...

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The widow of a 40-year-old Potosi man killed while trying to redirect traffic at an accident scene settled a wrongful-death suit for a total of $765,000 against the local volunteer fire department and the 18-year-old EMT who struck the man ...

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A Kansas jury ruled that a doctor properly advised a Lee’s Summit man who encountered ongoing post-operative problems due to contaminated mesh. “It was a fairly straightforward case,” said defense attorney Jeff K. Brown of Logan, Logan & Watson. “A ...

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