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A man injured in a wreck on a St. Louis highway reached a $2.2 million settlement with the Illinois-based defendant, according to his attorney. On April 8, 2017, Gerard Moore was driving southbound on Interstate 270 when he was struck ...

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A federal jury in Cape Girardeau awarded $1.5 million to a woman rear-ended by a truck on a Missouri highway. On Dec. 14, 2016, Michaela Matthews-Bell was driving south on Interstate 55 when the van in front of her braked ...

Tagged with: Brent Sumner rear-end collision U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

A 32-year-old motorist injured in a four-car collision on Interstate 64 in St. Louis County settled a lawsuit against a Cape Girardeau-based company and its employee for $350,000. Manohar Prathipati of Creve Couer was stopped in traffic on the innermost ...

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Two insurance companies paid a total of $215,000 in settlements after a woman died months after she was injured in an accident involving her husband’s vehicle. According to Stephen F. Gerring of The Gerring Law Firm in St. Louis, the ...

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The sister of a woman who died in the days after a car accident settled a wrongful-death claim for $750,000. “We had a medical causation problem,” said Zane Cagle of Cagle Law Firm. “She went into the hospital after the ...

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A skier injured when another person collided with her on a Utah mountain settled for $250,000, according to her attorney. Christopher Dandurand of The Gorny Law Firm of Kansas City said the plaintiff, who is from Jackson County, suffered a ...

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A Winfield, Kansas man has agreed to settle his claims against a Missouri trucking company for $2 million after a tractor-trailer struck the rear of his vehicle, according to his attorney. The crash occurred Oct. 27, 2018 in Gardner, Kansas, ...

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A former sales representative for a telecommunications company won a jury verdict for commissions he claimed were due to him. “Our guy contended that [he] was underpaid for his commissions while he was with Hale Communications, and then Hale Communications ...

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A man who was taken into police custody at gunpoint while driving a rental vehicle settled with Hertz for $25,000 after alleging the company wrongly reported the car had been stolen, according to his attorney. Zachary D. Poole of ZDP ...

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A woman rear-ended by a semi-truck in Kansas City reached a $350,000 settlement prior to litigation, according to her attorney. Rachael Schulte was eastbound on Interstate 435 near State Line Road during the evening rush hour on May 12, 2017, ...

Tagged with: rear-end collision The Horn Law Firm

A faulty smoke detector at an Independence rental house led to a $1.6 million settlement for the mother of a 5-year-girl killed in a 2017 fire that broke out in the family’s first day at their new home. Tiffanie Burcham, ...

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