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A woman whose 18-year-old son died in a fire after a pickup truck accident has settled her products liability case against General Motors for a confidential amount. Plaintiff Cindy Hahs contended that the “sidesaddle” design of a 1974 Chevrolet C-10 ...

$1.79 Million Settlement The husband of an Alva, Okla., woman sued Lancer Insurance Company after it refused to pay a judgment awarded in a personal injury case. In June 1995 Summit Bus Company brought a group of Michigan tourists to ...

$401,600 Verdict A pedestrian who was hit by a pickup truck sued the pickup driver and the driver’s employer. On Nov. 5, 2001 Patrick O’Brien was on his way to work at Holden Animal Clinic and Supply, Inc., driving his ...

The parents of a teenager killed in a railroad crossing accident won a $4.8 million verdict in their Jackson County case against Kansas City Southern Railway. The verdict came on April 16 after the trial court sanctioned KC Southern for ...

A St. Louis County obstetrician who claimed St. Luke’s Hospital tried to destroy his practice after it terminated him from staff won over $2 million in his tortious interference case against the hospital. Dr. David L. Gearhart said that St. ...

The former controller of Enterprise Rent-A-Car was awarded $4 million in his St. Louis County wrongful termination case. Thomas Dunn claimed that he was fired because he blew the whistle on illegal business practices within the company as it prepared ...

The mother of a man who died after an altercation with a barroom bouncer has won $1 million in her Jackson County lawsuit against the bar. Betty Wallingford claimed that her 48-year-old son blacked out after the bouncer put him ...

Defendant’s Verdict A homeowners association and 58 individual landowners in the Pinnacle Lake community in Montgomery County sued the St. Louis owner of a clay mine for trespass and nuisance. The association and the landowners claimed that the mine had ...

A 15-year-old who was raped in her hospital room by a teenage male patient has won $268,000 in her Jackson County negligence case against Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital. The plaintiff claimed that lax monitoring in the adolescent ward led to ...

A man injured in a 1997 auto accident has won a $25 million verdict — thought to be a record in Clay County — against the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission and the other driver who hit his car, but ...

A carpenter who received a 277-volt electric shock at a construction site has won a $30 million verdict in his Jackson County case against an electrical subcontractor. Plaintiff Virgil McCormack claimed that Capital Electrical Construction Co. was negligent in failing ...