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A St. Louis jury awarded $17.6 million in a medical malpractice case involving opioid over-prescription. Tim Cronin, of the Simon Law Firm which represented the plaintiff, said he thinks the most important evidence to the jury was the “colossal amounts ...

A confidential $15.5 million settlement has been reached in a suit stemming from a rear-end collision between a vehicle and a semi parked on a rural highway that severely injured a 3-year-old boy. Charles A. “Chip” Gentry, of Call & ...

A St. Louis County jury has found that a medical facility is not responsible for damages in the case of a man who suffered complications from a sigmoid colon resection. “It is a known complication of the procedure which can ...

A jury has sided with a Lee’s Summit hospital and physician sued for medical malpractice and wrongful death by the family of an 80-year-old man who died after complications from hernia surgery. David King was admitted to Saint Luke’s Hospital ...

A St. Louis jury has decided that a hospital was not liable in the death of an organ transplant patient who perished of ailments related to rejection of her donor heart. “She was admitted to the hospital and the rejection ...

A Kansas City woman who nearly died from an abdominal wall hematoma while pregnant and lost her unborn son recently won a $2.5 million verdict from a Clay County jury in her case against a North Kansas City Hospital emergency ...

A Jackson County jury found in favor of an emergency room physician accused of negligence in a case that resulted in a woman’s death. The jury returned the defense verdict May 6 following a five-day trial and about two hours ...

A Clay County jury has ruled in favor of the defense in a matter related to injuries alleged in a follow-up procedure for a spinal tap. “The plaintiff was in her mid-30s,” said James Myers of Shaffer Lombardo Shurin, which ...

A Boone County jury has found that a woman who alleged nerve damage after an endoscopy is not entitled to damages, according to a defense attorney in the case. “We defended it from a standard-of-care point – that [the nurse] ...

An arbitration panel has awarded nearly $425,000 to a Clay County doctor who alleged that the Wells Fargo brokerage improperly allowed his ex-wife to tap into his retirement account during their marriage. Dr. Mark Schroeder of Liberty, an internal medicine ...