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A St. Louis window supplier for an Auburn University dormitory project was exonerated in a $1.1 million arbitration claim against it and instead won attorneys’ fees and costs. Winco Window Co. supplied 1,760 windows to the Alabama school, many of ...

A Kansas City jury awarded a lawyer nearly $130,000 after finding a building owner breached a lease agreement for office space even though the lawyer did not sign a portion of the contract. In March 2016, consumer bankruptcy attorney Joe ...

A 65-year-old St. Louis man injured in a collision in north St. Louis County has settled a personal-liability lawsuit with the other driver’s insurer for $250,000. Sammie L. Harris was driving a 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier on southbound Bellefontaine Road when ...

The Eastern District Court of Appeals has thrown out future medical damages in the case of a St. Louis woman who received a $507,000 jury verdict in 2016 for her negligence claim that a pain clinic and its doctor caused ...

A defendant motorist has prevailed in a St. Louis case centering on alleged inconsistencies in a police report and divergent stories on who violated a traffic signal. “It was a very simple matter of who ran the red light and ...

A St. Louis County jury has determined that a doctor was not liable in the death of a patient who died of a heart attack during a cardiac stress test. William Biermann returned from a Mexican vacation on July 19, ...

A Jackson County jury has awarded a $1.2 million verdict to the family of a Kansas City woman who died in 2014 following complications from a procedure to help her breathe during an elective surgery. On Feb. 9, the jury ...

The family of a woman who died in an understaffed jail settled a wrongful-death lawsuit for $1 million, according to figures that New Madrid County provided in response to an open-records request. On Dec. 13, 2013, Stephanie Goodrich was arrested ...

A Platte County jury awarded $1.5 million to the wife of a man who was killed by a driver under the influence of prescription drugs. On Feb. 10, 2014, Donald Rippy was helping his grandson Parker with an overheated car ...

A motorcyclist involved in a crash on a rural highway won a tiny verdict from a Chariton County jury, which effectively amounted to a defense win. Jurors found plaintiff Mark Prior had suffered damages of $1,000 but also assessed him ...

A woman who alleged she was injured when she tripped on a raised section of sidewalk at the entryway to a medical facility settled for $300,000, according to her attorneys. The plaintiff said her left foot got caught on an ...