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A federal judge has slashed a massive punitive damages award to a southeast Missouri peach farm in its case against BASF and Monsanto stemming from drift of the herbicide dicamba.

A condominium association reached a $2.25 million settlement with multiple parties for water damage to its building, according to the association’s attorneys.

A developmentally delayed man hit by a car while walking on a road at night reached a $2.3 million settlement with the driver who hit him, according to his attorney.

A Henry County jury awarded $13 million to the family of a man crushed to death by the cab of a machine he was attempting to repair.

A lawsuit stemming from a 47-car pileup that killed a Platte City woman and seriously injured her husband in February 2019 has settled for more than $7.9 million, according to the plaintiff’s attorney.

A University of Kansas student injured in a winter 2019 collision with a fleeing motorist in northern Missouri will receive a settlement of four times the other driver’s liability insurance policy limits.

A 22-year-old St. Louis man received a $250,000 settlement after a Missouri Department of Transportation truck backed into his vehicle on an Interstate 44 off-ramp at the Hampton Avenue exit in St. Louis.

A five-car accident in Washington County resulted in a $3.7 million settlement for an injured infant and her mother.

A federal judge on Nov. 17 added more than $4.5 million in prejudgment interest to one of the largest verdicts of recent years following its affirmance on appeal.

A Springfield jury rendered a defense verdict in a fatal truck crash on a highway obscured by smoke from a nearby farmer’s fire.

A Missouri appeals court has affirmed a man’s $10,000 verdict after finding he was not entitled to a new trial based on an allegation of juror misconduct because he took too long to report it to the judge.