A Missouri Senate committee is weighing a bill that would reduce Missouri’s statute of limitations for personal injury suits to two years from the date of injury.
Read More »Supreme Court rulings are few but mighty
The Missouri Supreme Court has returned to in-person arguments and cleared some long awaited cases off its docket. But its annual output remains below normal.
Read More »Supreme Court weighs denial of arbitration
The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether a group of former car owners are bound by an agreement to arbitrate their claims against a loan servicer that is simultaneously suing them for the amounts they still owe on their cars.
Read More »Court’s confirmation signals success for hundreds of claims
A lot of small cases and a lot of small screens added up to a big series of arbitration awards for a Kansas City litigation team — with more on the way.
Read More »Son of talc plaintiff shares in wrongful-death $37.78M recovery
The son of a now-deceased plaintiff in a massive verdict against Johnson & Johnson won a nearly $37.8 million share of the final judgment, according to his attorneys.
Read More »Court finds company litigated too long to enforce arbitration
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 10 that it’s the job of the courts, not an arbitrator, to decide if a defendant litigated a case too long before seeking arbitration.
Read More »Arbitrator had no power to end class action, appeals court rules
A recent opinion of the Missouri Supreme Court has doomed an arbitrator’s award in favor of a car dealership, subjecting it once gain to a class-action lawsuit.
Read More »Governor signs COVID liability bill
Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill intended to offer liability protection for health care workers, manufacturers and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More »‘Reasonable standard’: KC lawyer leads effort to define data security practices
Two years ago, William R. Sampson of Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City set out to help define what “reasonable” data security looks like. The basic answer: More cybersecurity is not always better.
Read More »2020 In-House Counsel Awards: Barbara A. Enneking
“I was always really more drawn to the business side of law.” Looking over Barbara Enneking’s career, it’s easy to see how true that is.
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