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A Camdenton woman who underwent spinal-fusion surgery after she was rear-ended by a teen driver while she was taking her own children to school reached a nearly $1 million settlement with the other driver’s insurer.

The family of a bicyclist fatally struck by a car on Christmas Eve reached settlements with two insurers that totaled $1.025 million.

The widow of a man fatally struck while trying to cross a highway received $325,000 to settle a wrongful death claim.

A federal judge has slashed a massive punitive damages award to a southeast Missouri peach farm in its case against BASF and Monsanto stemming from drift of the herbicide dicamba.

A condominium association reached a $2.25 million settlement with multiple parties for water damage to its building, according to the association’s attorneys.

A developmentally delayed man hit by a car while walking on a road at night reached a $2.3 million settlement with the driver who hit him, according to his attorney.

A Henry County jury awarded $13 million to the family of a man crushed to death by the cab of a machine he was attempting to repair.

A lawsuit stemming from a 47-car pileup that killed a Platte City woman and seriously injured her husband in February 2019 has settled for more than $7.9 million, according to the plaintiff’s attorney.

A University of Kansas student injured in a winter 2019 collision with a fleeing motorist in northern Missouri will receive a settlement of four times the other driver’s liability insurance policy limits.

A 22-year-old St. Louis man received a $250,000 settlement after a Missouri Department of Transportation truck backed into his vehicle on an Interstate 44 off-ramp at the Hampton Avenue exit in St. Louis.

A five-car accident in Washington County resulted in a $3.7 million settlement for an injured infant and her mother.