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A federal judge has approved a $55 million class-action settlement in a pioneering lawsuit involving fees charged by a St. Louis company’s retirement plan. The law firm of Schlichter Bogard & Denton originally announced the agreement March 28 against ABB ...

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A company whose driver had a seizure and killed the occupant of a vehicle stopped at a red light paid a settlement of nearly $5.9 million, according to the plaintiffs’ attorneys. Johnny M. Simon of The Simon Law Firm said ...

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A woman injured in a collision in downtown Kansas City received $125,000 in payments from two insurers, according to her attorney. Laurie L. Del Percio of The Horn Law Firm said Diedre Twenter was a passenger in her husband’s 2004 ...

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A woman involved in an accident with a tractor-trailer won nearly a quarter-million dollars in compensation from a St. Louis County jury. “[The trucker] didn’t see my client, turned into her and caused my client to spin around 360 [degrees] ...

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Jefferson County jurors awarded $2.5 million to a man for injuries he suffered in an October 2016 traffic accident. “The meat of the case was damages. It was the injuries,” said Chris Finney of Finney Injury Law. “The defense contended ...

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A man run over in a closing-time bar fight won a $5 million verdict, but he lost most of it because a Greene County jury found him at fault for his injuries. Both plaintiffs and defendant declared victories of a ...

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On the surface, there’s not much in common between the 2008 Christian song “Joyful Noise” and Katy Perry’s 2013 hit “Dark Horse.” The former raps about the resurrection of Christ; the latter asks her lover “So you wanna play with ...

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A Joplin law firm representing the estate of an Arkansas man killed in a head-on collision reached a $1 million settlement with an Illinois trucking company and the driver of the tractor-trailer truck that swerved to avoid an ATV that ...

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A woman injured in a car accident won a modest award from jurors in Greene County who found the defendant 100 percent responsible but elected not to award punitive damages. “The jury came back with $10,000, which is what she ...

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A Kansas City motorist who sued a teen driver after being struck from behind in a September 2016 collision got a mixed message from a Platte County jury — not to mention a much smaller payout than the $42,000 final ...

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A St. Louis County jury has sided with a Bridgeton radiologist and the clinic where he worked in a wrongful-death lawsuit that alleged he failed to diagnose the ischemic colitis that led to a 59-year-old patient’s death in 2011. Hakim ...

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