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A recent $433,000 verdict in a premises liability lawsuit shows the value of using a building code violation to make a case for negligence per se, according to attorneys. Alan Clanton was at a St. Louis City warehouse picking up ...

.breaker {font-weight:bold;text-align:center;} A 5-year-old boy who suffered a detached retina after cataract surgery has lost his St. Louis City medical malpractice case. The defendants, including the eye doctor and the hospital where the surgery was performed, made a two-pronged attack ...

$4.1 Million Verdict An engineer sued Union Pacific Railroad after the company would not pay for his work-related injuries, claiming he refused vocational rehabilitation services. On May 11, 2001, Patrick Johnson, 44, was headed towards Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the ...

$3.5 Million Settlement The family of a Wyoming woman attending school in Camdenton sued Ozark Ready-Mix after a cement truck overturned onto the woman’s car, causing her death. Kari Zenga, 26, was driving east on Route 7 on her way ...

A woman whose 18-year-old son died in a fire after a pickup truck accident has settled her products liability case against General Motors for a confidential amount. Plaintiff Cindy Hahs contended that the “sidesaddle” design of a 1974 Chevrolet C-10 ...

$1.79 Million Settlement The husband of an Alva, Okla., woman sued Lancer Insurance Company after it refused to pay a judgment awarded in a personal injury case. In June 1995 Summit Bus Company brought a group of Michigan tourists to ...

$401,600 Verdict A pedestrian who was hit by a pickup truck sued the pickup driver and the driver’s employer. On Nov. 5, 2001 Patrick O’Brien was on his way to work at Holden Animal Clinic and Supply, Inc., driving his ...

The parents of a teenager killed in a railroad crossing accident won a $4.8 million verdict in their Jackson County case against Kansas City Southern Railway. The verdict came on April 16 after the trial court sanctioned KC Southern for ...

A St. Louis County obstetrician who claimed St. Luke’s Hospital tried to destroy his practice after it terminated him from staff won over $2 million in his tortious interference case against the hospital. Dr. David L. Gearhart said that St. ...

The former controller of Enterprise Rent-A-Car was awarded $4 million in his St. Louis County wrongful termination case. Thomas Dunn claimed that he was fired because he blew the whistle on illegal business practices within the company as it prepared ...

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 ...