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A Boone County jury awarded a former small-town police chief more than $300,000 in compensatory and punitive damages over a disputed firing that city leaders blamed on alcohol abuse and reckless conduct — but which the ex-cop said was retaliation by an alderman whose friend, also police officer, was under criminal investigation.

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled Aug. 10 that the family of a man killed by a distracted driver cannot tap into an additional $6 million in insurance coverage.

Attorneys with Alton-based Simmons Hanly Conroy won an $8.26 million verdict on behalf of a Louisiana resident who alleged he was exposed to asbestos while working for Ford Motor Company.

A man who sued a car wash after he tripped and fell on the property lost in front of a Joplin jury.

A woman and her children reached a $9 million settlement when she was injured in a semi-truck crash in Washington, according to their attorneys.

The daughters of a man killed in a motor vehicle collision in central Missouri reached a $2.5 million settlement, according to their attorney.

A Clay County jury awarded more than $806,000 to a young woman who severely burned herself in an attempted suicide after she was discharged from a local hospital.

A 21-year-old Independence woman injured in a 2018 two-car collision in her hometown settled a federal negligence suit for $600,000, plus court costs.

The long drought of jury verdicts in civil cases is coming to an end.

A Jackson County jury has, for a second time, found that a Lee’s Summit hospital and physician are not liable for an 80-year-old man’s death after complications from hernia surgery.

A Boone County jury awarded $25,000 to a young girl who suffered facial injuries in an automobile accident.