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A man with preexisting hearing loss, who was injured in a work-related accident, was entitled to benefits from the Second Injury Fund, the Missouri Court of Appeals has held.

A highway department employee who worked at the scene of hundreds of catastrophic automobile accidents did not have to compare her work-related stress to that of similarly-situated employees to receive benefits for her resulting mental injury, according to the Missouri ...

The Missouri Court of Appeals says evidence that a plaintiff signed an informed consent can be prejudicial when the plaintiff only brings a medical negligence claim, but a plaintiff who attacked informed consent evidence in her medical negligence action by ...

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. ...

Whether a frozen embryo should be considered a person is at the heart of a case the Eastern District Court of Appeals heard on June 1.

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 ...