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A Bates County man and his mother, both injured in a collision that killed a driver who hit their car head-on, settled an uninsured motorist lawsuit against their own insurer for a total of $320,000. Gene Allen Morris, 53, and ...

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A mid-Missouri jury determined that any injuries suffered by a Pulaski County woman during her sinus operation were not the responsibility of the surgeon. “There is always some risk involved in a revision surgery more so than in an original ...

A debt collector wiped out the debts of dozens of people to settle a class-action suit alleging it had failed to properly serve papers. “Under Missouri law, if you want to use a special process server to serve papers, you ...

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The mother of a 34-year-old woman with cerebral palsy who died after breaking her leg at a central Missouri assisted-living center settled a suit against the owners for $325,000. Jessica Bowers had been in the care of Pierce Home in ...

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A St. Louis County jury sided with a central Missouri tractor-trailer driver accused of injuring another motorist after allegedly hitting the man’s car. Overland resident Jason Hertweck sued Lazer Spot Inc., a national transportation-yard management company, and employee John William ...

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A St. Charles County jury sided with a woman who sued a hand surgeon for medical malpractice after a stroke that she attributed to an unnecessary procedure. The jury awarded the former United Airlines flight attendant, a 23-year employee who ...

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A Boone County judge has approved a $3.4 million wrongful-death settlement between the parents of a young girl fatally struck by a police officer and the city of Columbia. On May 6, Judge Kevin Krane approved the settlement, which stemmed ...

A federal judge on May 10 doubled to $6 million a jury award to 286 current and former Steak ’n Shake managers who had won a wage-and-hour lawsuit earlier this year. U.S. District Judge John A. Ross in St. Louis ...

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A 65-year-old St. Charles County man who was injured when a commercial truck hit his Jeep from behind settled a suit against the other driver and the driver’s employer, a Cape Girardeau hardware store, for slightly more than $1.5 million. ...

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An Independence man who was injured while trying to extricate his vehicle after it slid into a ditch settled an uninsured-motorist claim with his employer’s insurer for $500,000. The plaintiff, identified by his attorney as P.T., was injured on the ...

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A St. Louis County jury rejected a medical-malpractice claim for a woman’s death after surgery to fix her pacemaker. Sandra Watson, 59, underwent surgery to replace a generator on her pacemaker on Nov. 18, 2010. Her heart stopped during surgery ...

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