A veterinarian remains on the hook for his portion of a $5 million verdict for a student who was injured while vaccinating cattle. In a March 7 ruling, the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District affirmed the judgment against Dr. ...
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Read More »A Camdenton couple has reached a $5.1 million settlement in their case against the U.S. government for a birth injury that occurred at a federally funded clinic. The couple, Jamie and Nathan Searcy, filed suit in 2016 in the U.S. ...
Tagged with: Federal Tort Claims Act Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri U.S. Department of Justice U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri Votava Nantz & Johnson
Read More »A College of the Ozarks student who lost four fingers while mixing feed has agreed to settle her product-liability suit stemming from the incident for $2 million. The student, Heather Murry, was injured on Jan. 14, 2016, according to her ...
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Read More »A 23-year-old St. Charles County mother whose newborn died soon after labor and delivery complications settled a wrongful-death claim against St. Louis-based SSM Health for $750,000. Plaintiff’s attorney Matt O’Grady said his client’s infant daughter Ariel was declared dead 10 ...
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Read More »A Camden County jury has decided the owners of a house with severe wood rot did not mislead the couple to whom it was sold, but the court did find a defendant home-inspection company responsible for the damage. “The jury ...
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Read More »A woman reached a $1 million settlement after a tractor-trailer struck the rear of her pickup truck in July 2016. Kathleen Reagan, then 30, was driving through Charleston, Missouri, on Interstate 57 during a severe storm when a tractor-trailer driven ...
Tagged with: Charleston CRC Transport Hughes Lawyers Motor vehicle collision Schultz Myers U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Read More »The Simon Law Firm rarely hires anyone fresh out of law school. They made an exception for Patrick McPhail, who graduated from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2017. And after only 18 months as an attorney at ...
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Read More »Survivors of two southeast Missouri men killed in December 2015 by a motorist who registered a blood-alcohol level of nearly three times the legal limit after the fatal collision settled a wrongful-death lawsuit for $2.05 million. Jimmy Harrison, 50, of ...
Read More »A jury in St. Louis has awarded a plaintiffs class of 286 current and former Steak ‘n Shake managers a combined $3 million in unpaid overtime under state and federal laws. Nearly all of the plaintiffs had worked at Missouri ...
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Read More »A Clay County man reached a $1.25 million settlement with three insurers after suffering “life-changing” injuries in a car crash, according to his attorney. The plaintiff, then 54, was struck by another driver in a rear-end collision on Missouri Highway ...
Tagged with: Clay County Motor vehicle collision Walters Renwick Richards Skeens & Vaughan
Read More »A crash caused by a dropped cell phone has resulted in a six-figure verdict for an injured motorist. “It was a distracted-driving, rear-end collision where the driver of the car in back dropped his hand-held cell phone,” said Geoff Meyerkord ...
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