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A Jackson County judge’s award of attorneys’ fees in the case of a former Kansas City maintenance worker who sued the city for retaliation and a hostile work environment boosted his total recovery to $1.26 million.

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A Greene County jury decided that a spinal surgery patient is not entitled to compensation after the use of a product during the procedure led to complications.

A man who suffered injuries to his abdomen in a car crash in Jackson County received $150,000 from two policy limit settlements, according to his attorney.

An arbitrator awarded nearly $20 million to two former employees of a St. Louis-area janitorial company in what he said were some of the most egregious employment-discrimination cases he’d ever seen.

A man injured in a head-on collision reached a $2.5 million settlement with the at-fault driver as their federal jury trial was getting underway.

After 11 years of winding through state and federal courts, a class action lawsuit alleging Tracker Marine Boat Center illegally charged consumers “document fees” for standard form contracts on boat sales has concluded with a $25.16 million judgment.

The survivors of a man hit and killed in Missouri reached a settlement worth 100 times the limits of the defendant’s insurance policy, according to their attorney.

A young man who suffered a severe brain injury in a motor vehicle collision received a total of $15 million in settlements, according to his attorney.

A federal judge gave approval on Dec. 23 to a $3.7 million settlement with a private prison company and its phone contractor in a suit brought by attorneys who alleged the companies violated federal and state wiretap laws.

A teen driver who suffered a jaw injury in a car crash settled her case for $100,000, according to her attorney.