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An eight-person federal jury unanimously awarded $300,000 to a woman who sued a former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department detective for performing an unlawful body-cavity search. Kayla Robinson was awarded $200,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 in punitive damages after ...

Tagged with: Angela Hawkins Civil Rights Suit Kayla Robinson U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri unlawful body-cavity search

A woman injured in a collision on a Missouri highway settled her claims for $300,000, according to her attorney. Laurie Del Percio of The Horn Law Firm said the accident occurred on Oct. 27, 2014. The plaintiff was driving eastbound ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision The Horn Law Firm

A St. Louis jury found nearly half a million dollars in damages for a motorist involved in a traffic accident, though the award figure was reduced to the limits of his UIM policy. According to court documents, the case stemmed ...

Tagged with: Insurance case Lieser Law Firm underinsured motorist coverage

The widow of a 77-year-old Blue Springs man killed while walking into an auto-repair shop’s garage settled a wrongful-death suit against the business, the employee who drove the sport-utility vehicle that struck her husband and the vehicle’s owners for a ...

Tagged with: Bill Sanders Laurie Del Percio Wrongful Death Case

A jury has sided with a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant accused of suppressing exculpatory evidence in the case of Brad Jennings, who was convicted of killing his wife and later found to have been wrongfully convicted. On Feb. 25, ...

Tagged with: Brad Jennings Civil Rights Suit Missouri State Highway Patrol U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

An Idaho woman will receive about $29,500 in damages after signing up for a vacation club that failed to rescind her contract with a competitor. “She realized after she bought [it] that she had been duped,” plaintiffs’ attorney Russ Schenewerk ...

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A Ballwin woman reached a $100,000 settlement with the insurer for a driver who rear-ended her vehicle, according to her attorney. Deborah L. Doak of Brown & Crouppen said her client was an active, healthy and physically fit 78-year-old who ...

Tagged with: Brown & Crouppen Motor vehicle collision

A Blue Springs motorcyclist who impaled himself on the corner of a parked trailer during a turn settled his claims for $113,500. Plaintiff’s attorney Laurie Del Percio of Horn Law Firm represented Douglas Stacer, whose severe injuries included a pelvic ...

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Former KSHB-TV 41 reporter Demetrice “Dee” Jackson has settled his discrimination and retaliation claims against the TV station in Kansas City. On Feb. 17, Jackson and the station’s owner, Scripps Media Inc., filed a joint stipulation of dismissal with prejudice. ...

Tagged with: Demetrice “Dee” Jackson discrimination lawsuit KSHB-TV Missouri Human Rights Act The Popham Law Firm

A St. Louis woman reached a $125,000 settlement with two insurers after another vehicle struck her car so forcefully that she had to be cut from the wreck, according to the woman’s attorney. Deborah Doak of Brown & Crouppen’s St. ...

Tagged with: Brown & Crouppen Motor vehicle collision

A Cahokia, Illinois, woman who suffered injuries to her neck, back and knee received a $100,000 settlement from the driver who struck the rear of her vehicle, according to her attorney. James F. Ram of Brown & Crouppen said his ...

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