Missouri Lawyers Media Missouri legal news and public notices

A former city council candidate who alleged the City of Wildwood violated his First Amendment right to campaign on public property has agreed to settle his suit against the city and its officials for $295,000.

A Kansas woman has wrapped up two suits stemming from motor vehicle crashes that occurred while she was working for a taxi company, according to her attorney, Nicholas Hinrichs of the Hinrichs Law Firm in Kansas City.

A federal jury awarded a Missouri man more than $405,000 in damages for injuries he sustained in a slip-and-fall incident at an Independence QuikTrip in 2019, but jurors also found him mostly at fault — significantly reducing his recovery.

2020 gave a whole new meaning to the concept of the vanishing trial. During the course of the year, Missouri Lawyers Media reported just 22 trials in Missouri that reached a plaintiffs’ or defense verdict of any size.

A woman received a $300,000 settlement for head injuries she suffered after slipping on a slick surface at her apartment complex in Illinois, according to her attorney.

An employee who investigated civil rights claims for the city of Kansas City has settled her own sex-discrimination and retaliation suit against her employer for $450,000.

The U.S. government has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a medical malpractice suit brought by the family of a man who died while being treated for cancer at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia.

The Kansas City Council has approved a $250,000 settlement between the city and a Black firefighter who alleged Kansas City Fire Department officials discriminated against him by promoting less qualified, white employees over him.

The Lee’s Summit R-7 School District has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a Raytown woman’s claim that the district discriminated against her when it declined to hire her as its executive director of public relations.

The attorneys representing a class of consumers who alleged State Farm Life Insurance Company systematically overcharged universal life insurance policyholders will receive $11.4 million in attorneys’ fees for their work on the case.

A St. Louis County judge on Jan. 27 issued a $39 million judgment in favor of a large group of Missouri municipalities, resolving litigation that had gone on for more than a decade and has been in the process of ending for more than a year.