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A pharmaceutical company will get to keep its equipment in Kansas City following a federal jury’s verdict in its favor. Nostrum Laboratories, based in Somerset, New Jersey, has a manufacturing operation in Kansas City for specialty pharmaceuticals. The plant’s equipment ...

A collision involving two buses will leave one of the drivers with an award of more than $1.8 million even though only the side mirrors on the vehicles may have connected. The 2013 sideswipe accident occurred while driver Mary Moore ...

A St. Louis County probate judge has ruled that a plaintiff will replace his brother as trustee after the latter breached fiduciary duties in the administration of their father’s trust. “It is a good primer on what not to do ...

A southwest Missouri woman who was injured after a tractor-trailer hit her car in September 2012 has settled a lawsuit against the other driver and the man’s employer for $1 million. Sarah Christine Warden, 39, was driving her 2002 Saturn ...

A Chariton County jury awarded a seven-figure verdict to a train engineer who was injured while attempting to slide his seat backward. Jon Voss filed suit against BNSF in the incident in January 2015. He claimed that when he moved ...

A southwest Missouri man whose car was hit in a rear-end collision while it was stopped at a Nixa intersection has settled a liability claim with the other driver for $30,500. According to a January demand letter provided by Branson ...

A financial manager and father of two received a $785,000 settlement for injuries he received in a multi-vehicle wreck in 2016. Plaintiff Gregg Lippert retained $329,685 of the proceeds. His attorney John Wilbers received $273,383, and medical providers were paid ...

A Ray County case involving injuries a BNSF worker sustained while aligning railway-track equipment has resulted in a $750,000 verdict in favor of the worker. Conductor Cevin Moore was in the process of swinging the equipment, known as a derail, ...

A doctor is not liable for complications that arose after a patient sought a second surgery with another doctor to correct a leg-length discrepancy from her first hip-replacement operation, a Jackson County jury has decided. “She chose to have follow-up ...

A driver who sustained numerous injuries and the loss of what would have been his first child in a three-car crash will receive a $459,000 settlement. The confidential plaintiff brought claims for personal injury and wrongful death, according to plaintiff’s ...

A patron at a Platte County tavern will take home more than $400,000 in connection with a chaotic brawl that left her with back, eye and neck injuries. “The way that this trial went is that there was a different ...