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A boy severely injured by an inebriated pickup-truck operator settled a suit against the driver and his insurer for a total of $1.35 million. The settlement was the largest of four connected to the crash on July 17, 2017 in ...

Tagged with: DWI Motor vehicle collision

A 48-year-old school bus driver injured in a 2013 collision in St. Charles County was awarded $275,000 following a two-day jury trial. Kimberly Draper of St. Charles suffered a superior labral tear in her shoulder, from anterior to posterior (also ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision St. Charles County Circuit Court

St. Louis County jurors awarded nearly $1.36 million to a woman who alleged that she miscarried after doctors at a Fenton Hospital sent her home with a blood infection. “She had kidney stones, and she had an infection that went ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice Case St. Louis Lawyers Group

Six defendants have agreed to pay a combined $47 million to plaintiffs affected by a boiler explosion that killed four people and injured three others in 2017 in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, according to the plaintiffs’ counsel. The ...

Tagged with: Chicago Boiler Co. Loy-Lange Box Company Personal Injury Case Soulard wrongful-death cases

A patron who tripped at a suburban St. Louis restaurant came away from her day in court with a defense verdict. Defense attorney Chandler Atkins of Roberts Perryman said that plaintiff Janet Davis alleged that inadequately lit stairs were responsible ...

Tagged with: premises liability Roberts Perryman

A Kansas City man who fell from a rented hydraulic lift onto his driveway while painting his home settled a personal injury lawsuit against a regional hardware store for $3 million. David W. Taylor, 64, sued Euston’s Hardware Inc.  in ...

Tagged with: Euston's Hardware hydraulic lift Personal Injury Case

The owners of a Harrisonville log home have received an award of more than $880,000 to completely rebuild it in the wake of a fire even though less than 1 percent of the structure was damaged. The jury, however, declined ...

Tagged with: Insurance Dispute jury award Replacement-Cost Homeowner’s Insurance

The family of a truck driver who was killed on the job settled with a shipping company for $2 million, according to the family’s attorneys. Kip Robertson of Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader said the driver was dispatched to the defendant’s ...

Tagged with: wrongful death lawsuit

An acid reflux patient whose esophagus was torn during surgery won a $1.71 million verdict against the surgeon and an Arkansas physicians’ practice. James Gary Cooper sued Dr. Jeffrey D. Kellar and Ozark Surgical Associates in 2017 for medical malpractice ...

Tagged with: acid reflux Johnson Vorhees & Martucci Medical Malpractice Case

Briefing deficiencies led the Court of Appeals Western District to dismiss what appears to be its first case involving the use of home-sharing platform Airbnb. The July 9 ruling came in the appeal of Carlos Guerra, who leased two apartment ...

Tagged with: Airbnb Briefing Deficiencies Judge Mark D. Pfeiffer Missouri Court of Appeals Western District

A woman who was badly injured when she was hit by a van reached a $2.5 million settlement with the driver and his employer, according to the plaintiff’s attorney. Tim J. Riemann of Funk Riemann in Kansas City said his ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision Resulting In Bodily Injury