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A man whose classic car was hit from behind will take home an award of more than $41,000 for property damage and bodily injury but will not receive punitive damages or pain-and-suffering compensation. Douglas Johnson sued Ivan Ordonez in March ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle accident

The family of a woman who died from a fall while exiting a vehicle will receive no damages from a Missouri town in the wake of a dispute centering on ownership of a disused rail line. Jana Richards and Josh ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

A Kansas City woman will collect more than $6,300 in damages for a 2015 accident in Clay County. Motorist Bridget Sharp filed suit after she was struck in a T-bone collision while exiting Interstate 35 at Highway 291, said defense ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision

An auto accident that left a man with finger injuries has resulted in a verdict that assessed fault to both sides but will leave the plaintiff with a six-figure net award. Kyle Griffin was broadsided on his motorcycle by motorist ...

Tagged with: personal injury

A pair of Kansas City attorneys has obtained a $4.1 million wrongful-death settlement in the case of a motorcyclist who crashed with a truck driver who was found to have a habit of disregarding stop signs. Michael C. Rader and ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision wrongful death

St. Charles County jurors determined that a mental health professional was not liable after a man murdered his family within hours of his last therapy session. Thomas Comer killed his wife Carole and two adult children, Rebecca Kelleher and John ...

Tagged with: medical malpractice wrongful death

A $3.7 million judgment for a former employee of pest-control company Orkin, reduced from a $10.1 million jury verdict from 2016, will stand following a Dec. 26 ruling from the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District. A three-judge panel unanimously ...

A St. Louis County jury awarded more than $1.3 million to four plaintiffs in a business dispute with a prominent payday-loan business operator whom they accused of improperly enriching himself at their expense and then undervaluing their assets while forcing ...

Tagged with: Business/Commercial

A High Ridge woman rear-ended by a teenage driver agreed to settle her claims for $100,000, according to the plaintiff’s attorney. Brandon Jackson of Brown & Crouppen represented the 54-year-old plaintiff. On Sept. 19, 2016, the woman was stopped in ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision

The daughter of an 82-year-old woman who was struck by a vehicle driven by her nurse and died of complications following the incident has agreed to settle her wrongful-death suit against the nurse’s company for $400,000. Her attorney, Rachel Stahle ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

The Marion County Ambulance District has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a man’s lawsuit after an ambulance in which he was riding rolled over in a single-vehicle crash. The plaintiff was an 80-year-old man whose daughters took him ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision