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The mother of a man who died after an altercation with a barroom bouncer has won $1 million in her Jackson County lawsuit against the bar. Betty Wallingford claimed that her 48-year-old son blacked out after the bouncer put him ...

Defendant’s Verdict A homeowners association and 58 individual landowners in the Pinnacle Lake community in Montgomery County sued the St. Louis owner of a clay mine for trespass and nuisance. The association and the landowners claimed that the mine had ...

A 15-year-old who was raped in her hospital room by a teenage male patient has won $268,000 in her Jackson County negligence case against Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital. The plaintiff claimed that lax monitoring in the adolescent ward led to ...

A man injured in a 1997 auto accident has won a $25 million verdict — thought to be a record in Clay County — against the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission and the other driver who hit his car, but ...

A carpenter who received a 277-volt electric shock at a construction site has won a $30 million verdict in his Jackson County case against an electrical subcontractor. Plaintiff Virgil McCormack claimed that Capital Electrical Construction Co. was negligent in failing ...

A recent $118,000 malpractice verdict against a chiropractor could ignite interest in a cause of action usually ignored by plaintiffs’ attorneys, according to the patient’s lawyer. Herman Praszkier, who represented Leslie Krieger in her St. Louis City case, said remarks ...

A St. Louis City jury awarded $18 million on Feb. 4 to the mother of a 4-year-old boy who was killed when he fell out the window of the family’s 11th-floor apartment in a public-housing complex. The mother, Carla Hill, ...

A mentally disabled woman has won a $2.8 million verdict against the driver of her medical transport van because he failed to make sure she was wearing a seatbelt before an accident. VERDICT REPORT The St. Louis City case involved ...