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In the US, slip and fall accidents lawsuits are becoming more and more common  nowadays, but a jury deliberated 19 minutes before rejecting a woman’s $840,000 claim against the city of Arnold after she fell in a city parking lot. ...

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A St. Louis jury deliberated for less than an hour before siding with two contractors sued by a nationally prominent developer of student housing regarding water damage to an apartment complex next to Saint Louis University. Education Realty Trust sued ...

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A Chillicothe woman reached a $120,000 settlement with the driver and the owner of a tractor-trailer truck that crashed into her and caused severe injuries, according to her attorney. Patricia Llanos of Brown & Crouppen’s St. Louis office said that ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has upheld an $8.5 million jury verdict and granted attorneys’ fees on appeal for a St. Joseph employee of Laclede Gas Co. who accused the company of racial discrimination and retaliation. On April ...

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The estate of a longtime power company worker who died of mesothelioma reached a settlement of more than $791,000, according to the family’s attorney. Randall Barnes of Barnes & Associates in Jefferson City said the decedent, August Dudenhoeffer, worked for ...

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A St. Louis nursing home resident who broke both legs after tumbling from her wheelchair while riding in a medical transport vehicle settled a lawsuit against the van’s owner and its driver. According to the 2019 suit, Theresa Fehrmann was ...

Tagged with: personal injury

A federal judge has approved more than $3.3 million in attorneys’ fees and costs following the settlement of a class action lawsuit alleging that Missouri overprescribed psychotropic drugs to children in foster care. In an April 3 order, U.S. District ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on April 7 affirmed a $191,000 award against an insurer found to have refused to settle a claim from an injured man. Plaintiff Farzad Qureshi was injured in a rear-end collision in 2011 ...

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A Boone County jury awarded $450,000 to a woman whose nude photos were posted to a plastic surgeon’s website against her will. The plaintiff, Lisa Coffman, sued Matthew J. Concannon for posting to his company’s website in 2011 nude photos ...

Tagged with: invasion of privacy Kempton & Russell

A federal judge in Kansas City has awarded a New Mexico woman nearly $95,000, finding the U.S. government liable for conversion after it seized 364,000 $1 presidential coins from her as part of a criminal investigation and failed to return ...

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A man injured while attempting to fill a tank with asphalt sealant will take home only $1,100 in damages due to a small award and a heavy allocation of fault to the plaintiff. “The plaintiff had his own asphalt sealant ...

Tagged with: asphalt sealant McConnell & Associates Inc. Nichols Lang & Hamlin Personal Injury Case