Jurors in Jackson County ruled in favor of a couple who were denied an insurance claim for their specialty roof after a windstorm in March 2017. “They felt this was a claim that American Family should have paid on day ...
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Read More »A Clay County jury deliberated for nine hours before siding with a North Kansas City medical clinic, doctor and nurse in an infant wrongful-death lawsuit. Natalie and John Piatt filed the suit after the Jan. 22, 2015 death of their ...
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Read More »A two-week medical-malpractice trial in St. Louis County settled confidentially just before the jury was expected to render a verdict. The plaintiff, Velma Kuehn, had been treated at St. Mary’s Hospital for an abdominal hernia. In a lawsuit filed in ...
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Read More »A Platte County jury found mostly in favor of a man who was badly burned while working on an old car. The jury on Sept. 11 awarded $8 million to plaintiff Jeffrey Bash but found him 20 percent responsible for ...
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Read More »A highly unusual employment-discrimination case in Jackson County ended Sept. 18 in favor of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Michelle Bolen sued the diocese in 2016 after she was terminated from St. Therese Catholic School. Bolen worked at ...
Tagged with: employment discrimination case Jackson County Circuit Court Missouri Abortion Act Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph
Read More »A woman injured in a trucking accident in Effingham County, Illinois, received $1.5 million after entering binding mediation with the responsible party, according to her attorney. Attorney Kevin J. Roach said his client was asleep in her cab when she ...
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Read More »A group of Buffalo Wild Wings franchises in seven states — including Missouri — has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit against it alleging violations of federal and state minimum-wage laws. U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough ...
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Read More »Simmons Hanly Conroy won a $34 million verdict against Ford Motor Company in an asbestos case in California. Following a four-week trial, a Los Angeles jury on Aug. 29 awarded Arthur and Janet Putt $8.5 million in compensatory damages and ...
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Read More »Many lawsuits against railroads involve allegations of a lack of safety devices. In a case in Cape Girardeau County that resulted in a $17 million plaintiff’s win, the safety device was the issue. A jury on Aug. 30 awarded $12 ...
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Read More »The Court of Appeals Southern District affirmed a $7.3 million verdict for the ousted managing member of a southern Missouri dairy farm. Separately, the court upheld the appointment of a receiver to oversee the disputed farm, just weeks after the ...
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A Jackson County jury has awarded $6.7 million in damages to a Kansas City couple for injuries a man sustained after his ladder came into contact with an uncovered high-voltage power line while he painted their house. The jury returned ...
Tagged with: Frederick Trotman Kansas City Power & Light KCP&L personal injury verdict Yolande M. Trotman
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