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A man injured while attempting to fill a tank with asphalt sealant will take home only $1,100 in damages due to a small award and a heavy allocation of fault to the plaintiff. “The plaintiff had his own asphalt sealant ...

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An Excelsior Springs woman reached a $100,000 settlement with a driver who caused a three-vehicle collision, according to her attorney. Rachel Lawrence of Brown & Crouppen’s Kansas City office said that on Sept. 1, 2018, Belinda Holly, then 54, was ...

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A man convicted and then acquitted of murdering his wife reached a $2.05 million settlement in a civil rights suit against a group of Lincoln County law enforcement officials. Former murder suspect Russ Faria initially was convicted of the Dec. ...

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A St. Charles bar owner received a $140,000 settlement after he was severely injured by a former customer, according to the law offices of Maha Amircani. Dustin English was attacked in the breezeway of the Undertow Restaurant on Aug. 12, ...

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The parents of a teenage driver killed in a head-on collision settled a wrongful-death claim for $700,000, according to their attorney. Jared Rose said the collision between two pickup trucks took place in 2018 on a two-lane road in rural ...

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A federal judge has given final approval to a class-action settlement in a suit alleging Walmart and a manufacturer of tractor hydraulic fluid deceptively sold and made a product that damaged Missourians’ farm, logging and construction equipment. On March 3, ...

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A judge on March 24 granted preliminary approval of a $1.7 million settlement in a widely publicized class-action lawsuit against the city of Ferguson for charging court fees alleged to generate profit for the municipality at the expense of public ...

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A St. Louis County jury rejected a claim by a Schnuck Markets shopper injured after being knocked down by a cashier while checking out of the grocer’s Overland Plaza store. Deborah Parker-Johnson sued the St. Louis-based supermarket chain in April ...

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A woman struck while standing outside her disabled vehicle on a Kansas highway received a $500,000 settlement, according to her attorney. Reed Martens of Monsees & Mayer said his client, Barbara Greer Martin, was driving westbound on Kansas Highway 10 ...

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A Clay County judge awarded an $8 million judgment to a woman severely injured by a drunken driver, despite the intervention of the defendant’s insurer. Judge Janet Sutton on Feb. 25 found in favor of Melissa Rasmussen in her claims ...

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A federal judge on March 16 threw out a $2.78 million verdict that a St. Louis-based entertainment lawyer won last year against pop star Katy Perry. Michael Kahn of Capes Sokol was lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the high-profile, ...

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