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A Missouri man will receive a $6.25 million settlement from a Los Angeles medical facility after it allegedly failed to diagnose a condition that left him a quadriplegic. “One day, his legs gave out,” said plaintiff’s attorney David Zevan of ...

A group of Missouri attorneys won a $60 million verdict on Friday in a breach of contract case tried in New York City. The Independence law firm Humphrey, Farrington & McClain announced the verdict in a press release. Lawyers from ...

A Clinton County couple’s suit alleging wrongful foreclosure against Wells Fargo will settle rather than go to trial a second time. On Tuesday, an attorney for David and Crystal Holm filed a notice of dismissal in their suit against the ...

A $13 million settlement resolved long-running litigation over the death a 6-year-old boy who was hit by a school bus. In late 2012, a St. Louis judge awarded nearly $11.5 million to the parents of Hunter Pitt, who died when ...

A Jackson County woman who was injured along with her mother and 7-year-old son in a 2012 collision on Interstate 470 has settled a lawsuit against the responsible driver that will pay the injured parties a total of $232,000. Kristen ...

A St. Louis circuit judge ruled that one of the largest judgments of 2015 cannot be collected from an insurer for the defendant. The judgment, originally worth $35.1 million but offset by $500,000 due to a prior settlement, was entered ...

A Kansas City area law firm representing directors and officers of a bankrupt franchise of insurance brokerages has won a $1.025 million settlement of a lawsuit filed after the 12 plaintiffs say they were improperly exposed to personal liability for ...

A northeast Missouri jury has sided with a Kirksville orthopedic surgeon sued for medical negligence by a 39-year-motorcyclist following complications from ankle surgery after an accident. Burnie Schneiderheinze and his wife Mindy, both of Trenton, sued orthopedic surgeon John Bailey ...

A child injured in a rollover crash when he was 2 years old was awarded $7.5 million, which his attorneys now hope to collect from an insurance policy for his mother who was killed in the crash. In 2014, the ...

The death of a college student in a traffic accident has resulted in a seven-figure settlement for his parents. “He was a great kid by all accounts,” said Todd Nissenholtz who represented the family. “He was getting ready to graduate ...

A Tennessee jury has awarded $6.7 million to the parents of a 15-year-old girl who died from a pulmonary embolism in 2010 after repeatedly being prescribed antibiotics for what doctors initially said was pneumonia. The July verdict against Family Care ...