A plaintiff in the federal Eastern District of Missouri has settled a lawsuit against a Missouri city and three of its police officers for $300,000, according to the plaintiff’s attorney, J.C. Pleban of Pleban & Petruska Law in St. Louis. ...

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A motorcyclist who was hit and severely injured by a FedEx delivery contractor’s truck in south St. Louis County has settled for an undisclosed amount and succeeded in getting the contractor to modify its safety policies. “This was a rare ...

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A motorcyclist who was hit and severely injured by a FedEx delivery contractor’s truck in south St. Louis County has settled for an undisclosed amount and succeeded in getting the contractor to modify its safety policies. “This was a rare ...

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A St. Louis attorney secured a $3.2 million settlement for two officials at a financial company, as well as the expungement of defamatory information in their industry records. David B. Cosgrove of the Cosgrove Law Group said his clients were ...

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Estate of Max Overbey v. Franklin (MLW No. 72049/Case No. WD81136 – 13 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Pfeiffer, J.)

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The children of a woman killed in a fatal crash involving a dump truck have agreed to settle their wrongful-death lawsuit against the truck’s driver and two associated companies for $1.9 million, according to the family’s lawyers. Andrew Nantz and ...

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A woman who alleged she suffered a brain injury in a motor-vehicle collision reached a $2.5 million settlement two months before the case was set to go to trial, according to her attorneys. The plaintiff, represented by Joshua P. Myers ...

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The daughter of a man found dead in a flaming St. Louis shed in early 2011 settled a lawsuit with the owner of the property.

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The family of a construction worker who died while working on the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge in St. Louis settled its wrongful-death claim against the construction companies that were building the bridge.

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The family of a mother and daughter killed in a 2010 collision in eastern Kansas confidentially settled a product liability lawsuit against General Motors after alleging that the women and another passenger were ejected from a pickup truck because of defective door hinges.

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G.H. v. Eli Lilly & Company (MLW No. 65398/Case No. WD75942 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Welsh, J.)

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