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A Kansas City couple who alleged that their insurance company intentionally underinsured the value of their home was awarded $420,000 in damages. A Jackson County jury returned the verdict Tuesday, wrapping up a trial that went just over two weeks. ...

A suburban Kansas City motorcyclist who lost his job as a result of injuries caused when he was sideswiped by a motorist charged with drunk driving has settled a claim against the woman’s insurer for $100,000. Rolley Joseph Nienhueser Sr., ...

A Kansas City man hit by a tractor-trailer while crossing a five-lane street has settled a liability claim with the driver and the truck’s owner for $150,000. Charles E. Cook was crossing Troost Avenue at 75th Street on March 31, ...

A driver who told police that he fell asleep at the wheel has settled a liability claim with an injured Jefferson County woman for $100,000. Mercedez Batchelor, 25, of Festus, was hit from behind by a 2000 Ford Mustang on ...

The mother of a man who killed himself in a southwest Missouri jail cell will receive a $550,000 settlement from the authorities who incarcerated him. “He had a history of suicide and depression and was actually taking medications for it,” ...

A St. Louis woman who sustained a traumatic brain injury while riding in a car that crashed after a police chase has settled a lawsuit against the imprisoned driver for $1.25 million. The three-car collision occurred shortly after 9 p.m. ...

A Kansas teen who suffered a fractured pelvis as a passenger in a single-car accident has settled a claim against the 17-year-old driver’s insurer for $242,500. Amber L. Jordan of Atchison, who was 14 at the time, was one of ...

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has upheld a nearly $11 million plaintiff’s verdict awarded in 2015 to the widow of a man exposed to asbestos while working on a U.S. Navy ship in the 1950s. The verdict, which ...

A woman injured in a collision with an accused drunk driver on Interstate 255 in the Metro East suburbs of St. Louis has settled a claim with the man’s insurer for $100,000. Shamele G. Nealy, 35, of Alorton, Illinois, was ...

A Jackson County jury recently found a Grain Valley restaurant and its employee liable for sexual harassment, retaliation and battery, awarding the plaintiff $475,000 in damages. Ivonne Minjares-Hernandez, of Grain Valley, filed the suit in 2014 against J.Y. Amigos, Inc., ...

The owner of a dump truck alleged to have caused a 2014 injury crash in Lincoln County has agreed to settle with the driver of the other vehicle for $750,000. The crash occurred the morning of June 21, 2014, as ...