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Six defendants have agreed to pay a combined $47 million to plaintiffs affected by a boiler explosion that killed four people and injured three others in 2017 in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, according to the plaintiffs’ counsel. The ...

Tagged with: Chicago Boiler Co. Loy-Lange Box Company Personal Injury Case Soulard wrongful-death cases

A patron who tripped at a suburban St. Louis restaurant came away from her day in court with a defense verdict. Defense attorney Chandler Atkins of Roberts Perryman said that plaintiff Janet Davis alleged that inadequately lit stairs were responsible ...

Tagged with: premises liability Roberts Perryman

A Kansas City man who fell from a rented hydraulic lift onto his driveway while painting his home settled a personal injury lawsuit against a regional hardware store for $3 million. David W. Taylor, 64, sued Euston’s Hardware Inc.  in ...

Tagged with: Euston's Hardware hydraulic lift Personal Injury Case

The owners of a Harrisonville log home have received an award of more than $880,000 to completely rebuild it in the wake of a fire even though less than 1 percent of the structure was damaged. The jury, however, declined ...

Tagged with: Insurance Dispute jury award Replacement-Cost Homeowner’s Insurance

The family of a truck driver who was killed on the job settled with a shipping company for $2 million, according to the family’s attorneys. Kip Robertson of Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader said the driver was dispatched to the defendant’s ...

Tagged with: wrongful death lawsuit

An acid reflux patient whose esophagus was torn during surgery won a $1.71 million verdict against the surgeon and an Arkansas physicians’ practice. James Gary Cooper sued Dr. Jeffrey D. Kellar and Ozark Surgical Associates in 2017 for medical malpractice ...

Tagged with: acid reflux Johnson Vorhees & Martucci Medical Malpractice Case

Briefing deficiencies led the Court of Appeals Western District to dismiss what appears to be its first case involving the use of home-sharing platform Airbnb. The July 9 ruling came in the appeal of Carlos Guerra, who leased two apartment ...

Tagged with: Airbnb Briefing Deficiencies Judge Mark D. Pfeiffer Missouri Court of Appeals Western District

A woman who was badly injured when she was hit by a van reached a $2.5 million settlement with the driver and his employer, according to the plaintiff’s attorney. Tim J. Riemann of Funk Riemann in Kansas City said his ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision Resulting In Bodily Injury

A Johnson County, Kansas, jury sided with a radiologist sued by a patient who alleged that he failed to timely diagnose her breast cancer. Laurie J. Hamilton, 67, alleged that an October 2016 mammogram showed a 3.7-centimeter lesion in her ...

Tagged with: breast cancer Medical Malpractice Case

The Lee’s Summit R-7 School District is not liable for damages in a series of claims stemming from the termination of a former administrative assistant, a Jackson County jury determined May 31. The jury returned the verdict following a two-week ...

Tagged with: disability discrimination Ensz & Jester hostile work environment claim Jackson County Circuit Court job abandonment

A northwestern Missouri jury found no fault for either party in the case of a woman who alleged she took a tumble on a slick spot in a Maryville Hy-Vee gas station parking lot. Defense attorney Lori Battern of Andereck, ...

Tagged with: Andereck Evans Lewis Figg & Battagler Hy-Vee Nodaway County premises liability