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In what came as a surprise to both sides, the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday said a doctor alleged to have missed a man’s fatal brain tumor cannot be sued for his wrongful death — but he can be sued ...

Missouri has the distinction of being home to the only federal appeals court in the country to rule against the U.S. government in a still-raging dispute over contraception. As litigation prepares to start again, will that be a distinction without ...

When the Republican-led Missouri Legislature overhauled the state’s tort laws in 2005, lawmakers considered a major change to the way evidence of medical damages would be introduced in personal injury suits. The final version of the bill settled on a ...

Four years ago, when the Missouri Supreme Court threw out caps on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases by overturning a 20-year-old case to the contrary, Judge Mary R. Russell made an unsuccessful plea for the court to respect precedent. ...

The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether state law now allows — possibly inadvertently — post-judgment interest on medical malpractice awards.

The Missouri Supreme Court last week heard a case that raises thorny questions of mortality. The case involves the death of Joseph Mickels, who was discovered in February 2009 to have an aggressive brain tumor and, despite surgery, died June ...

On paper at least, the Missouri Legislature’s proposed overhaul of standards for courts to admit expert testimony appears well positioned to pass this year.

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to address a constitutional challenge to a $4.3 million medical malpractice verdict, leaving the award in place. In December 2013, a Buchanan County jury sided with plaintiff Douglas Stewart against a St. Joseph ...

The family of a 34-year-old Kansas woman who died of an overdose two days after surgery reached a $1.48 million settlement with the defendants in the case last year, according to the survivors’ attorney. Ashley L. Ricket of Dollar, Burns ...

In July 2012, an 11-year-old girl entered Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis for scoliosis surgery. She emerged paralyzed from the waist down. The cause of Ronnie Hamm’s heartbreaking injuries were murky, and hotly contested. Attorneys for Hamm argued ...