An administrative law judge is judicially estopped from making claims in a discrimination suit that are inconsistent with claims he made in a separate dissolution case, the Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously ruled.

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The Missouri Supreme Court is considering the validity of a $7 million verdict that a former administrative law judge won against the state.

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A St. Louis jury on Friday awarded $4 million in actual damages and $3 million in punitive damages to a former administrative law judge who claimed he was retaliated against after filing a discrimination complaint.

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A workers’ compensation settlement will net more than $422,000 for a man who claimed injuries after two falls at his place of employment.

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A 60-year-old painter injured in a 2010 workplace accident settled a workers’ compensation claim with his former employer for nearly $400,000 after appealing an administrative law judge’s initial decision to the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

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A lengthy workers compensation and liability case resulting from an auto accident in St. Louis County settled through mediation for a combined total of more than $700,000.

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The victim of a car crash in southwest Missouri will receive benefits paid over the rest of her life in a workers’ compensation case.

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A woman injured while lifting boxes will receive more than $1 million in workers compensation due to the combination of a favorable judgment and eventual settlement.

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A workers’ compensation case involving a one-vehicle trucking crash has been settled for more than $195,000, said the attorney representing the plaintiff.

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A workers’ compensation case over a woman who lost her leg after she allegedly was accidentally shot at a pawnshop has ended with a $1.66 million settlement, a St. Louis attorney said.

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A Bosnian immigrant working as a meat cutter at a St. Louis meat plant was awarded $143,332 in a workers’ compensation claim after an 800-pound rack tipped over, pinning him to the floor, fracturing his jaw and causing other injuries.

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