The U.S. government has agreed to pay $6.97 million to settle claims from 82 people who accused a former physician assistant at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas of sexually abusing them. Dan Curry of Brown & Curry in Kansas ...
Tagged with: Brown & Curry Federal Tort Claims Act U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas Veterans Affairs hospital
Read More »A southeast Missouri economic development agency that sued its insurers in federal court in regard to a weather-damaged building settled the complaint for $5.5 million. Poplar Bluff Industries settled the suit against Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. ...
Tagged with: Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. Hartford Fire Insurance Co. Insurance case Poplar Bluff Industries U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Read More »A Jackson County judge has ordered an Uber driver to pay $8.2 million to a woman who sued him for sexually assaulting her in 2017. According to court records, in December 2018, Judge Charles McKenzie entered a judgment on the ...
Tagged with: Assault And Battery Jackson County Circuit Court Stueve Siegel Hanson Uber
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The Court of Appeals Western District on Dec. 10 affirmed a $5.35 million judgment for a man wrongfully convicted of killing a newspaper editor in Columbia. Ryan Ferguson spent a decade in prison for the 2001 murder of Columbia Daily ...
Tagged with: 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Columbia Police Department Court of Appeals, Western District Kent Heitholt Ryan Ferguson Wrongful Conviction
Read More »An O’Fallon police lieutenant and sergeant settled a joint lawsuit in St. Charles County against the city, its former chief and two higher-ranking officers for a total of $550,000. Sgt. Scott Walker and Lt. Jeffrey Lange sued the city, now-retired ...
Tagged with: employment discrimination Lt. Jeffrey Lange Sgt. Scott Walker
Read More »A Jefferson County woman won a settlement of nearly $500,000 after she was seriously injured in a low-speed crash, according to her attorneys. Matt Jett and Christopher Finney said their client, Cindy Houck, was waiting at the intersection of Highway ...
Tagged with: Finney Injury Law Motor vehicle collision
Read More »A Jackson County jury awarded slightly more than $1 million in damages to a Kansas City woman who alleged she suffered a botched tubal ligation. Kathleen M. Hagen of Watson & Dameron, who represented plaintiff Maria Ordinola Velasquez, said she ...
Tagged with: Jackson County Circuit Court medical malpractice tubal ligation Watson & Dameron
Read More »A St. Louis County jury rejected a medical-malpractice claim by the family of a man who died following his admission to Mercy Hospital for atrial fibrillation. The jury deliberated for about two hours following a seven-day trial in July. The ...
Tagged with: Brown & James medical malpractice Mercy Hospital wrongful death
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A Missouri appeals court has affirmed a $3.5 million verdict for a railroad conductor who was injured in a 2013 train collision in Kansas. On Nov. 26, a three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled in ...
Tagged with: BNSF Railway Co. Cass County Circuit Court Federal Employers' Liability Act Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Stephen C. Wynn
Read More »A black St. Louis police captain who claimed he was made a scapegoat to cover up misconduct by a group of white officers settled a suit against the city for more than $1.1 million. Former Chief Sam Dotson fired Ryan ...
Tagged with: employment discrimination case Pleban & Petruska Law racial discrimination case
Read More »A St. Louis circuit judge properly granted a new trial in a gender-discrimination case that previously resulted in a $7.3 million verdict against United Parcel Service, a Missouri appeals court has ruled. On Nov. 26, a three-judge panel of the ...
Tagged with: gender-discrimination case Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Retaliation United Parcel Service
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