The adult children of a Canadian couple who died in a single-vehicle accident in Livingston County will receive a settlement of more than $575,000. Douglas R. Bradley of Bradley and Bradley, who represented the adult children of Sheri and Leslie ...
Tagged with: Bradley and Bradley Chillicothe Livingston County wrongful death
Read More »A St. Louis County judge added nearly $595,000 in attorneys’ fees to a recent $1.3 million jury verdict against a payday-loan business operator. The plaintiffs were family members who were minority owners of two companies that operated payday-loan stores in ...
Tagged with: Missouri Uniform Securities Fraud Act payday-loans
Read More »A southwest Missouri restaurant settled a suit over a slip-and-fall incident in which the plaintiff alleged that too many “wet floor” signs made the warnings useless, according to her attorney. “[My client] would have testified that she didn’t notice any ...
Tagged with: Christian County Circuit Court premises liability
Read More »An Illinois woman who suffered a spinal injury following a low-speed collision reached a combined $250,000 settlement from two insurance companies, according to her attorney. Joseph A. Ott said his client, Darlene Kohler, was riding her motorcycle when Jeremy Reichert ...
Tagged with: Cantor Injury Law Motor vehicle collision Ott Law Firm Progressive Northern Insurance Company The Hanover Insurance Group
Read More »A 67-year-old nurse with lingering injuries from an early-morning, four-car collision in Blue Springs in 2014 will receive $235,000 from State Farm Insurance after settling a lawsuit at mediation. According to a police accident report, Cheryl A. Wiederrich of ...
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Read More »A former employee of a St. Louis County dental office will receive both actual and punitive damages from her former employer after a bench trial involving accusations she was terminated in violation of public policy. “I kept saying all along ...
Tagged with: Whistleblowing Wrongful Termination
Read More »A driver whose vehicle was struck from the rear by a commercial vehicle reached a $1 million settlement, according to the plaintiff’s attorney. Craig M. Ortwerth of Ortwerth Law in St. Louis said the plaintiff was moving in the travel ...
Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision Ortwerth Law
Read More »A jury verdict returned on March 8 in St. Louis County Circuit Court may be the highest to date for a claim under the dog-bite statute enacted a decade ago. Jurors awarded damages of $250,000 to the plaintiff, a minor ...
Tagged with: Bridgeton dog bite Meyerkord & Meyerkord one free bite Rynearson Suess Schnurbusch & Champion St. Louis County Circuit Court
Read More »A Jasper County jury awarded $900,000 to a Joplin teenager whose car was struck by another teen who was alleged to be texting while driving. The jury assessed 16 percent of the fault to plaintiff Olivia Kelly, resulting in a ...
Tagged with: Jasper County Joplin Safeco Insurance Company Sticklen & Dreyer The Law Office of Stephanie Warmund
Read More »Jackson County jury ruled that a pharmaceutical company did not discriminate based on gender in firing one of its male managers, but it levied a seven-figure award based on claims of retaliation and failure to provide a proper service letter. ...
Read More »A former Kansas City Water Services Department employee had enough evidence to support her claim against the city for a hostile work environment, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District recently ruled. In a March 5 decision, the court affirmed ...
Tagged with: Equal Opportunity Office Kansas City Water Services Lunceford Law Firm Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Natalie McKinney
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