A man injured while attempting to break up a fight between two dogs secured a $30,000 settlement. “He tried to separate the two dogs unsuccessfully,” said Scott Kehlenbrink of Reinoehl Kehlenbrink. “In the process of that, we believe that he ...

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The Simon Law Firm rarely hires anyone fresh out of law school. It made an exception for Patrick McPhail, who graduated from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2017.

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Five Jefferson County Circuit Court supervisors, using their official titles, have signed a letter to the editor questioning court clerk candidate Mike Reuter’s fitness for office given his 2000 arrest for domestic abuse.

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A St. Charles man injured in a 2012 Illinois collision with a tractor-trailer has settled an insurance claim against the other driver and his employer for $250,000.

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A 56-year-old Festus woman injured in a three-car crash in January 2012 received $125,000 in a pair of settlements with her own insurance company and another driver’s insurer.

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A 28-year-old Arnold woman injured when a St. Louis pickup truck driver crossed the centerline on a Jefferson County highway has settled an insurance claim for $100,000.

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A Jefferson County judge has rejected a deputy sheriff’s bid to recover civil damages for a shoulder injury he sustained while trying to arrest a drug suspect.

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An Oklahoma insurance company’s collapse has inadvertently helped a Jefferson County motorcyclist injured in a May 2011 accident recover substantially more after he had to turn to his own coverage for uninsured motorists.

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Two friends who were supposedly roughhousing with each other ended with one of them getting beaten to death with a baseball bat, according to testimony at a trial that began on Monday in the Jefferson County Circuit Court. Christopher “Ralph” ...

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A jury awarded three families $2.3 million by AmerenUE in a case that involved a lake tragedy in Jefferson County. Nicholas Harbison, 16, died, and Morgan Milfeld and Timothy Fitzpatrick, both 15 at the time, were injured after they were ...

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A Cedar Hill woman is blaming a doctor and a nurse practitioner at the Cedar Hill Medical Center for her husband’s death. Kelley Heberer filed a wrongful death/medical malpractice lawsuit on Dec. 15 in Jefferson County Circuit Court. She is ...

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