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 ...
Read More »Jury clears Kansas obstetrician of malpractice
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 ...
Read More »Settlement reached over one-car accident
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 ...
Read More »Databases offer insight into personal injury
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 ...
Read More »Class action settled for $15 million
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 ...
Read More »Jury favors defendant in school bus collision
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 ...
Read More »Bar settles with injured woman for $1 million
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 ...
Read More »Arbitrators rule against highway commission
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 ...
Read More »Jury returns quick win for defense in KC suit
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 ...
Read More »Homeowner, party guest share blame for fall
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 ...
Read More »General contractor recovers $800,000 from condo developer
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 ...
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