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A woman injured in a car crash involving a dump truck reached a $245,000 settlement, despite claims by the defense that the larger vehicle’s brakes failed. “Because of the truck’s speed, it tipped over right in front of her,” said ...

Tagged with: Brown & Crouppen Motor vehicle collision

A 35-year-old Ladue woman injured in a February 2015 rear-end collision won $650,000 from a St. Louis County jury after the at-fault driver’s insurer rejected a considerably smaller policy-limits settlement demand. Maranda Cocking was hit from behind while driving a ...

Tagged with: Jennifer Hawkins Maranda Cocking Motor vehicle collision

A Cass County jury rejected a Belton couple’s efforts to collect on a $440,000 judgment related to a 2015 motor-vehicle collision. James and Hadley Maloney sued Benchmark Insurance Co. and the other driver, Karla Coronado, in 2018 to collect on ...

Tagged with: Insurance case Motor vehicle collision

A 73-year-old woman reached a $1.75 million settlement in a lawsuit against a hospital and medical personnel who allegedly failed to diagnose a spinal epidural abscess that led to her paralysis, according to the woman’s attorneys. Robert D. Kingsland and ...

Tagged with: Dempsey & Kingsland Medical Malpractice Case

A St. Louis-based lawyer negotiated a nearly $11 million pre-suit settlement to help pay for the cost of repairs after a fire at a historic Ohio school. The July 10, 2018 fire damaged the roof of Fernway Elementary School in ...

Tagged with: Evans & Dixon Insurance case Richard Gerber

An Iowa woman injured during a family Fourth of July celebration in Boone County reached a $250,000 settlement with an insurer for her future in-law. “One of the mortars must have been knocked over or broken or something,” said plaintiff’s ...

Tagged with: fireworks Personal Injury Case Votava Nantz & Johnson

A late-night shoving match that ended with a gunshot in a St. Louis diner parking lot resulted in a verdict for the defense. Joshua Davis of Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice defended concealed-carry permit holder James Bommarito in connection with ...

Tagged with: Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice Jacobson Press Personal Injury Case

A woman involved in a rear-end car accident won $275,000 in a case complicated by the unexpected death of the defendant during the course of an earlier trial. “She didn’t come to trial in the morning, and I sent my ...

Tagged with: Cagle Law Firm McCarthy Leonard & Kaemmerer Motor vehicle collision

A northern Missouri jury ruled that county road officials were not liable in the death of a 9-year-girl who drowned after the car in which she was riding tumbled into a stream. “The road, and primarily the condition of the ...

Tagged with: Barnes Law Firm Linn County Newman Comley & Ruth

A St. Louis County jury ruled that two brothers were not at fault after an intoxicated young man lost consciousness at their home and later died. Plaintiffs Batool and Sarwar Ahmed alleged that Devin and Eric Homan had “failed to ...

Tagged with: Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice Thompson Coburn wrongful death lawsuit

A Jefferson County woman who struck the rear of a tractor-trailer truck reached a $1 million settlement with the truck’s insurer, according to her attorneys. Michael J. Dalton Jr. and Michael Shelton of O’Leary, Shelton, Corrigan, Peterson, Dalton & Quillin ...

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision