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A Southwest Missouri woman who nearly lost her left hand in a 2008 tractor-trailer accident settled for $850,000 with a truck company and a car driver’s insurance company. Brenda Light reached the settlement after mediation and before a lawsuit was ...
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Jury finds for defense in suit over fall, injury
A St. Louis jury returned a defense verdict in a case where a woman broke her ankle when stepping off a Metro bus and onto the curb. Khristy Somerville sued Bi-State De-velopment Agency, which handles the Metro bus and light ...
Read More »Jury rules against woman who sued after breaking leg
A jury in St. Louis rejected the claims of a woman who sued the city and property owners after she stepped into a pipe in the grass and fell. According to the lawsuit, Salma Chaker was walking along a sidewalk ...
Read More »Claims of negligence against Springfield internist rejected
A Greene County jury rejected negligence claims against a Springfield internist. A patient claimed the internist failed to properly diagnose and treat a foot injury and failed to make a timely referral to an orthopedic specialist. Valorie Fullmer, 46, injured ...
Read More »Prescription mistake costs U.S. $150,000
A St. Louis city man received a $150,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case after more than a dozen St. Louis-area attorneys turned down the case. Carl Sutton visited his doctor for arthritis pain in July 2007 at the Family ...
Tagged with: BAMSL medical malpractice
Read More »Injured motorcyclist receives only $12,500
A Kansas City motorcyclist received a $12,500 jury verdict after making a $500,000 pretrial demand against a tractor-trailer driver and his trucking company. Michael Talley was driving his motorcycle southbound on Highway 71 in Harrisonville in September 2006. Bryan Atha ...
Read More »Pedestrian awarded for fall in KC hole
A Jackson County jury awarded $225,000 to a pedestrian who fell in a hole in downtown Kansas City. The pedestrian sued the city, the electric company that dug the hole and the business that had commissioned the digging. The jury ...
Read More »KC hotel worker wins age discrimination case
A Jackson County jury awarded $200,000 in damages to a hotel employee fired because of her age. Glenda Sue Claus was employed for 23 years as the housekeeping supervisor at the Park Place Hotel in Kansas City. In 2004, Intrigue ...
Read More »Kidney damage claims awarded against doctor
A Cole County jury awarded $1.02 million to a patient who alleged he sustained severe kidney damage after his doctor failed to inform him of abnormal blood test results and failed to have him repeat the tests or seek treatment ...
Tagged with: Jon Beetem medical malpractice
Read More »Deadly trucking accident settles for $2.3M
A trucking company agreed to pay $2.3 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against it in Newton County. Shyla Brannon, a truck driver in her early 20s, was killed when a tractor-trailer that defendant John E. Richardson was driving ...
Tagged with: wrongful death
Read More »Delivery driver awarded $5M for injuries
A jury awarded a FedEx driver $5 million for injuries after two oversize tires fell on him. After allocating fault, the verdict was reduced to $4.75 million. He later settled with the defendant after trial for $4.5 million. Joseph Kennedy ...
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