Missouri In House Counsel Legal news, updates and analysis

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill intended to offer liability protection for health care workers, manufacturers and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

“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.