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Following a three-week trial, a St. Louis jury on Dec. 20 rejected claims that a woman’s ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson-brand talcum powder. The plaintiff, Vickie Forrest, suffered from a rare form of ovarian cancer that she ...

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A Cass County jury has awarded a white Belton woman $1.35 million in her suit against AT&T, in which she alleged that the company retaliated against her after she raised concerns about how her African American managers treated her. The ...

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The family of a chef to celebrities and a U.S. president won $1 million for his death after a post-operative emergency room visit. Marcel Bonetti, 73, was head chef of the Pro Bass Shops in Springfield and then personal chef ...

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A 59-year-old St. Louis County man injured in a multicar collision in April 2018 on Interstate 270 near the Chain of Rocks Bridge settled a personal injury suit against a Florida trucking company, its driver and a third motorist for ...

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The U.S. government has agreed to pay $6.97 million to settle claims from 82 people who accused a former physician assistant at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas of sexually abusing them. Dan Curry of Brown & Curry in Kansas ...

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A southeast Missouri economic development agency that sued its insurers in federal court in regard to a weather-damaged building settled the complaint for $5.5 million. Poplar Bluff Industries settled the suit against Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. ...

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A Jackson County judge has ordered an Uber driver to pay $8.2 million to a woman who sued him for sexually assaulting her in 2017. According to court records, in December 2018, Judge Charles McKenzie entered a judgment on the ...

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The Court of Appeals Western District on Dec. 10 affirmed a $5.35 million judgment for a man wrongfully convicted of killing a newspaper editor in Columbia. Ryan Ferguson spent a decade in prison for the 2001 murder of Columbia Daily ...

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An O’Fallon police lieutenant and sergeant settled a joint lawsuit in St. Charles County against the city, its former chief and two higher-ranking officers for a total of $550,000. Sgt. Scott Walker and Lt. Jeffrey Lange sued the city, now-retired ...

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A Jefferson County woman won a settlement of nearly $500,000 after she was seriously injured in a low-speed crash, according to her attorneys. Matt Jett and Christopher Finney said their client, Cindy Houck, was waiting at the intersection of Highway ...

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A Jackson County jury awarded slightly more than $1 million in damages to a Kansas City woman who alleged she suffered a botched tubal ligation. Kathleen M. Hagen of Watson & Dameron, who represented plaintiff Maria Ordinola Velasquez, said she ...

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