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A Missouri victim of sexual abuse reached an $11 million negligent supervision settlement, according to plaintiff’s attorney Grant C. Boyd. Boyd, an attorney for the St. Louis firm Sindel Noble, said the settlement was reached September 23. The case took ...

A lawsuit filed by a woman who suffered injuries in an Illinois traffic accident has concluded in an $825,000 settlement. “Our position was that she didn’t do anything wrong,” said Patrick Bader of Bader & Murov. “She was just driving ...

A Columbia handyman who suffered spinal cord injuries while using a chainsaw to trim trees has settled a personal injury insurance claim with a mid-Missouri business for $1 million. Christopher Batzel was working as an independent contractor for Rick’s Home ...

A St. Charles County fender bender has resulted in a $100,000 settlement for a woman who sustained facial injuries necessitating surgery. “[The defendant] was turning right off of a side street and kind of made one of these wide turns,” ...

A Greene County jury has ruled that a medical facility was not liable for hernias suffered by a woman after complications from a lap band adjustment procedure. “The jury basically believed that our doctor had employed appropriate technique, did it ...

A Franklin County jury has sided with a Mercy Hospital Washington physician and his employer, who were sued for malpractice after a female patient reported suffering a perforated bowel following gall bladder surgery. Sharon Fischer, 59, of Marthasville, sued Dr. ...

A Kansas City jury has ruled that an insurance company is liable to pay $942,197 in damages to two motorcyclists injured in a chain-reaction crash caused by a phantom driver. “The jury actually gave me every penny I asked for,” ...

A 2014 car accident has resulted in a quarter million-dollar verdict for the plaintiff although it was reduced by comparative fault. “My client was adamant that he was stopped at a red light,” said Tom Wilmowski of Schultz & Myers, ...

A Clay County jury has awarded nearly $300,000 in damages to a woman who sued her former employer after being fired from her job as a medical assistant for what she called racially-motivated retaliation. The jury deliberated for three-and-a-half hours ...

A St. Louis County jury has rendered a defense verdict in a malpractice suit stemming from the amputation of a construction worker’s big toe after he errantly discharged his nail gun. “He presented to the ER and our position is ...

A Newton County jury has given a defense verdict to a doctor who contended that a woman’s unusual anatomy was responsible for an injury to her bowel during a procedure to alleviate kidney stones. “The problem is that she had ...