A 30-year-old suburban Kansas City woman injured in a two-car collision in Overland Park, Kansas, three years ago settled a liability lawsuit against the other driver for $500,000. Overland Park resident Maegen Sima Shadfar suffered injuries to her head, neck ...
Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision
Read More »A dispute regarding a loan between two private parties in Taney County settled for $86,691. Plaintiff Carla Backlin filed a declaratory-judgment action regarding a $78,000 loan she made to her friend Linda Wilson. Michael Horn, an attorney in Branson who ...
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Read More »A St. Louis jury awarded $4.5 million to the family of a man who drowned when a towboat sank. Patrick Bader of Bader & Murov represented Oliver Johnson, a mate working the deck of the M/V Charlie Boy under the ...
Tagged with: wrongful death
Read More »A Jackson County jury decided that doctors at a Kansas City hospital were not liable for permanent injuries suffered by a pre-term baby at the center of a multi-million dollar medical malpractice matter. “It was a well-tried, hard-fought case on ...
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Read More »A 63-year-old pickup-truck driver whose leg was broken in a rear-end collision with a semi-trailer truck in downtown St. Louis settled a lawsuit against the other driver and that driver’s employer for $500,000. On June 27, 2013, shortly after 2:45 ...
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Read More »A federal jury in southern Illinois unanimously ordered Southern Illinois Asphalt Co. to pay nearly $8.17 million to a family related to the deaths of their father and grandfather in a 2005 wreck. Liliya Turubchuck and her family, of Washington, ...
Tagged with: Negligent representation
Read More »A female patient who alleged she suffered permanent injuries to her hand from a post-surgical blood clot reached an $800,000 out-of-court settlement with a Missouri hospital, according to her attorney. After undergoing heart surgery, the patient received an arterial line, ...
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Read More »Kansas City jurors awarded a majority of the fault to the local government in a matter involving a leaking water main and injuries suffered by a fall in a crosswalk. “There had been, I think, at least eight complaint calls ...
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Read More »A 2015 traffic accident in the Kansas City area which left one person dead resulted in a $775,000 settlement due to a damaged safety device along the roadway. “They knew it was broken, and they should have fixed it sooner,” ...
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Read More »An employee who alleged that he was forced to leave his job after reporting safety problems reached a $2 million settlement, according to his attorney. J.C. Pleban of Pleban & Petruska in St. Louis said the safety issues the plaintiff ...
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Read More »A plaintiff who alleged negligence by a doctor during spinal surgery reached a $425,000 settlement, according to the plaintiff’s attorney. Brent A. Sumner of the Sumner Law Group in St. Louis said the defendant doctor allegedly malpositioned the screws during ...
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