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A car accident on a rural road resulted in a $10,000 judgment against a driver who claims he was blinded by oncoming headlights. “I told the jury at the outset of the trial that we’re not really here to talk ...

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A St. Louis judge ruled that a former University of Missouri extension office supervisor failed to prove workers’ compensation retaliation when she was terminated shortly after a work-related accident. Judge Joan L. Moriarty found that officials at the University of ...

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A 73-year-old Poplar Bluff man injured in a 2016 motor-vehicle collision settled a lawsuit against the responsible driver and her employer for $220,000. According to a Poplar Bluff Police Department accident report, Rueben Dennis Faughn was driving his 2009 Buick ...

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A federal judge has thrown out claims that an underground-facility locating and marking company was responsible for tens of millions of dollars of settlements paid by Missouri Gas Energy following the JJ’s Restaurant explosion in 2013. On March 20, U.S. ...

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In the US, slip and fall accidents lawsuits are becoming more and more common  nowadays, but a jury deliberated 19 minutes before rejecting a woman’s $840,000 claim against the city of Arnold after she fell in a city parking lot. ...

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A St. Louis jury deliberated for less than an hour before siding with two contractors sued by a nationally prominent developer of student housing regarding water damage to an apartment complex next to Saint Louis University. Education Realty Trust sued ...

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A Chillicothe woman reached a $120,000 settlement with the driver and the owner of a tractor-trailer truck that crashed into her and caused severe injuries, according to her attorney. Patricia Llanos of Brown & Crouppen’s St. Louis office said that ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has upheld an $8.5 million jury verdict and granted attorneys’ fees on appeal for a St. Joseph employee of Laclede Gas Co. who accused the company of racial discrimination and retaliation. On April ...

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The estate of a longtime power company worker who died of mesothelioma reached a settlement of more than $791,000, according to the family’s attorney. Randall Barnes of Barnes & Associates in Jefferson City said the decedent, August Dudenhoeffer, worked for ...

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A St. Louis nursing home resident who broke both legs after tumbling from her wheelchair while riding in a medical transport vehicle settled a lawsuit against the van’s owner and its driver. According to the 2019 suit, Theresa Fehrmann was ...

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A federal judge has approved more than $3.3 million in attorneys’ fees and costs following the settlement of a class action lawsuit alleging that Missouri overprescribed psychotropic drugs to children in foster care. In an April 3 order, U.S. District ...

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