Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

A woman injured when she was rear-ended on a Kansas City-area highway reached a settlement of more than $200,000, according to her attorney.

A St. Louis woman who was injured in a hit-and-run crash won $22,500 against her own insurer, but jurors rejected efforts to recover additional damages under a claim of vexatious refusal without reasonable cause.

A federal court in Georgia dismissed claims by an attorney for fees he contended were owed under the terms of an earlier settlement.

For the first time, a Missouri appeals court has ruled in a case involving a 1993 state law designed to protect competition in the retail motor fuel market, affirming a $5.6 million judgment against a St. Louis gas station.

A former city council candidate who alleged the City of Wildwood violated his First Amendment right to campaign on public property has agreed to settle his suit against the city and its officials for $295,000.

A Kansas woman has wrapped up two suits stemming from motor vehicle crashes that occurred while she was working for a taxi company, according to her attorney, Nicholas Hinrichs of the Hinrichs Law Firm in Kansas City.

A federal jury awarded a Missouri man more than $405,000 in damages for injuries he sustained in a slip-and-fall incident at an Independence QuikTrip in 2019, but jurors also found him mostly at fault — significantly reducing his recovery.

2020 gave a whole new meaning to the concept of the vanishing trial. During the course of the year, Missouri Lawyers Media reported just 22 trials in Missouri that reached a plaintiffs’ or defense verdict of any size.

A woman received a $300,000 settlement for head injuries she suffered after slipping on a slick surface at her apartment complex in Illinois, according to her attorney.

An employee who investigated civil rights claims for the city of Kansas City has settled her own sex-discrimination and retaliation suit against her employer for $450,000.

The U.S. government has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a medical malpractice suit brought by the family of a man who died while being treated for cancer at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia.