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A federal judge in Kansas City sided with American Family Mutual Insurance in a property-damage lawsuit filed by a group of aggrieved condo and townhouse owners after a May 2014 hail storm. Brighton Crossing Condominium Association and Brighton Crossing Homeowners ...

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A St. Louis County jury has awarded a $2.5 million verdict to a woman whose car was struck in a T-bone collision by a man pulling out of his driveway. “It was a damages case,” said Christopher Finney of Finney ...

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Jurors returned a six-figure judgment against a lender who evidently garnished a debtor’s wages without properly serving her first. “They garnished her for over two years — closer to three,” said Christopher Roberts of Butsch Roberts & Associates. “They garnished ...

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A Kansas military school will pay nearly $370,000 to a man whose 12-year-old son was sexually assaulted in a 2014 dorm-room attack by a fellow student at the Episcopalian boys’ boarding academy. In a December ruling, arbitrator John H. Phillips ...

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A Kansas City law firm won a jury verdict worth more than $11 million for a truck driver who was injured in a train collision in North Dakota. Grant L. Davis of Davis, Bethune & Jones said the plaintiff, David ...

A complex case against a defunct Kansas City-area car dealership appears to have produced more precedent than money. In a 52-page opinion on Feb. 13, the Western District Court of Appeals said an insurer wasn’t liable for more than $1.5 ...

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A man who was severely injured while trying to help a stranded motorist reached a $1.275 million settlement with multiple insurers, according to his attorney. Attorneys Richard D. Klein and Michael Avioli said the plaintiff was riding as a passenger ...

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A family of four injured in a vehicle collision reached an out-of-court settlement of $1.5 million with the insurer for the at-fault driver, who died in the collision. According to Mark Cantor of Cantor Injury Law in St. Louis, the ...

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Boone County jurors decided that a doctor was not negligent in connection with nerve injuries suffered by a child during a difficult delivery. “The primary issue was whether or not Dr. [Kimberly] Morse applied too much traction, more than a ...

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A southwest Missouri jury sided with a couple from Salt Lake City, Utah, who sued a Branson timeshare developer due to what they called false assurances that their ownership stake included the use of more sought-after vacation properties in California ...

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A Cape Girardeau woman injured in a collision with a driver for an auto-parts store reached a $1.475 million settlement in the matter. “Basically, the O’Reilly Auto Parts driver was coming the opposite direction and driving too fast for conditions,” ...

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