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St. Louis-based Panera Bread Co. agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a wage and hour class action lawsuit filed on behalf of general managers who work in the company’s California cafes. U.S. District Judge Jean C. Hamilton approved the settlement ...

A Johnson County, Kan., jury returned a verdict in favor of an obstetrician accused of injuring an infant’s spinal cord during a forceps delivery. Kimberly Bahr, 30, gave birth to a boy May 1, 2006, at Saint Luke’s South in ...

A settlement was reached for injuries sustained by Andria Venegoni and the injury and death of Kenneth W. Jaco in a two-fatality single-car accident. Venegoni was awarded $725,000, and Kenneth and Kimberly Jaco were awarded $275,000. Venegoni and Jaco were ...

Trial lawyers who handle a variety of cases will tell you that many involve vehicular accidents. This fact is backed up by a recent survey from the good folks at Jury Verdict Research. Last month, the company released the 48th ...

Three insurance companies have agreed to settlements totaling $15 million as the result of a class action suit alleging that poor actuarial work resulted in “fraudulent concealment of future rate increases” for 1,669 Missouri policyholders. The class-action lawsuit, filed in ...

Plaintiff Elizabeth Phillips-Moore was a front-seat passenger in an automobile driven by her boyfriend on Route N, a two-lane road near De Soto. The road where the accident took place is curvy, and the road conditions were slick because of ...

A Columbia woman who sustained serious injuries when her car was struck by an intoxicated driver reached a $1 million settlement with the insurer of the business that served the alcoholic beverages. In an earlier agreement, the driver’s insurance company ...

An arbitration panel awarded nearly $300,000 to the family of a teenage passenger killed on a Jefferson County highway. On Jan. 5, 2004, Mindy Campbell was a passenger in a Ford Probe driven by her friend Heather Laws. As Laws ...

A Jackson County jury returned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit in which a man alleged that surgeons injured his brain during surgery. John Allen suffered symptoms of a stroke just days after he underwent nasal surgery on ...

A St. Louis County jury awarded $70,000 in damages to a party guest who slipped and fell outside a rented portable toilet. The jury returned a defense verdict for the waste company that delivered the toilet, instead allocating 70 percent ...

A general contractor won a nearly $800,000 arbitration award in its breach of contract case against the developer of a condominium project in downtown Kansas City. WST is the owner and developer of WallStreet Tower, a renovated 20-story office building ...