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The mother of a southwest Missouri man who was fatally struck while trying to run across a highway at night near Big Cedar Lodge has settled a liability claim with the driver’s insurer for $50,000. Samuel Leroy Reed, 51, of ...

A federal judge has approved a $4.5 million settlement in a class-action suit against health information tech giant Cerner, brought by employees who alleged the company violated laws governing overtime compensation. U.S. District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan Jr. on June ...

Two sisters who were falsely imprisoned by bouncers who accused them of using counterfeit money at the Whiskey Tango bar in Grain Valley have settled their suit against the bar for $1 million. Their attorney, Nicholas Hinrichs, of the Hinrichs ...

A St. Louis jury has decided that a teenager who injured himself in the dark at City Museum will receive an award although it allocated most of the fault in the case to the plaintiff. “There was a significant dispute ...

A St. Louis County jury has sided with an emergency-room physician and hospital sued for medical malpractice by the widow of a stroke patient. Nelda Higgins alleged in the 2015 lawsuit that Dr. Gerardo Gutierrez and Christian Hospital nursing staff ...

A Kansas jury has determined that a railroad employee’s use of tobacco, rather than his work environment, bore primary responsibility for his development of lung cancer. “The individual had lung cancer and claimed the cancer was due to asbestos exposure ...

Football players face well-known risks on the field, but Reggie Bush’s biggest foe came 33 feet from the sidelines during a November 2015 game at the former home of the Rams. Bush, a former running back for the San Francisco ...

A collision with a drunken driver going the wrong way on the highway will leave one man with an $850,000 settlement, most of it from the bar where the alcohol was poured. “Dram-shop cases are very difficult because you have ...

A jury in Jefferson City awarded a class of plaintiffs $34,333,495 in damages in their suit against State Farm Life Insurance Co., which alleged the company systematically overcharged them for their universal life insurance policies. The jury returned the verdict ...

An Illinois judge has ruled an ousted packaging-company president must pay his former employer $4.57 million for running a competing business on the side. Petter Packaging Co., in Dupo, Illinois, and owner Robert Petter sued the company’s former president Charles ...

DISH Network has agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle a consumer class-action regarding allegations the company failed to provide customers access to certain channels for which they’d paid in advance, including a regional sports channel. Mike Padberg, the named ...