Where the family of a man who died from asbestosis sued the manufacturer of asbestos-containing boilers, which the man inspected as part of his job, the summary judgment record presented a genuine dispute to be decided by a jury as ...

Tagged with: Causation Exposure to Asbestos

Where a claimant challenged the denial of his claim for permanent total disability, sufficient competent evidence supported the finding that the work-related accident was not the prevailing factor in causing the claimant’s tinnitus, so the judgment denying the claim is ...

Tagged with: Causation SIF Liability Tinnitus

Where plaintiffs sued a city housing authority and its director and insurer after a woman and her four children died from smoke inhalation in an apartment kitchen fire, summary judgment for the defendants is affirmed because there was insufficient evidence ...

Tagged with: Causation Fire Deaths premises liability

  Where a hospital employer challenged an award of permanent partial disability to an employee for a wrist injury she suffered in a fall at work, the commission did not err in finding that the injury arose from the course ...

Tagged with: Causation Compensable Injury Employment Law Inherent Risk

Where appellant investors challenged an order dismissing their adversary complaint in a Chapter 7 case, the judgment is affirmed because the bankruptcy court did not err in finding that no debt to the investors resulted from a consent order issued ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Causation Consent Order Investment Loss

Where a plaintiff in a medical-malpractice case claimed that defendant anesthesiologists negligently administered an incorrect dose of morphine that caused her to suffer injuries including sleepiness, depression and an inability to bond with her new baby, the judgment is affirmed ...

Tagged with: Causation expert testimony medical malpractice Negligence

Ackman v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (MLW No. 71708/Case No. ED105794 – 12 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Quigless, J.)

Tagged with: Causation Cumulative Injury FELA Negligence

Leonetti’s Frozen Foods, Inc. v. Rew Marketing, Inc. (MLW No. 71565/Case No. 17-1445 – 9 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Erickson, J.)

Tagged with: Causation Negligence Project Termination

White v. ConAgra Packaged Foods, LLC. (MLW No. 71267/Case No. SC96041-9 pages) (Fischer, C.J.)

Tagged with: Causation Heart Attack Prevailing Factor Workers’ Compensation

Coonce v. Simons (MLW No. 70658/Case No. SD34597 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Bates, J.)

Tagged with: Causation Negligence Prison Nursing Care wrongful death

Liles v. C.S. McCrossan, Inc. (MLW No. 70323/Case No. 15-3801 – 17 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)

Tagged with: Causation civil rights gender discrimination Retaliation