Jackson County jurors awarded nearly three-quarters of a million dollars to a woman who claimed urinary complications in the wake of a hysterectomy.

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A St. Louis jury has awarded $5.08 million to the family of a 58-year-old city police officer who died in 2019 of an undiagnosed blood clot following sleep apnea surgery at SLUCare, a part of Saint Louis University.

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Jurors in southwestern Missouri decided that doctors were not responsible for the death of a man who perished in the hospital due to heart trouble.

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Southwestern Missouri jurors determined that the timing of a diagnosis did not worsen injuries suffered by a woman with a spinal epidural abscess.

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A St. Louis County Court has entered a judgement for the defense in a matter that involved the death of a woman nearly a year after her visit to the emergency room. 

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A Stone County jury returned a defense verdict in favor of a dentist accused of negligence in both using and improperly installing a cantilevered bridge to replace an extracted premolar tooth, instead of the dental implant that was ultimately used when the bridge failed. 

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A southwest Missouri jury swiftly rejected a woman’s claim that Mercy Clinic Joplin failed to timely identify and treat a skin infection suffered after a crush injury to her left leg.

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A child injured at birth and his mother received a $9 million settlement from the doctor involved in the delivery, according to their attorney.

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A man whose lower left leg was amputated in the wake of an infection received a seven-figure verdict in federal court, though it was reduced by Missouri’s damage cap after trial.

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The dismissal of a man’s medical malpractice case will hold after a failed Missouri Supreme Court appeal. When re-filing his suit, his counsel had filed expert affidavits 18 days too late, said the high court.

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A 74-year-old diabetic who went into a medical coma after a mistaken injection settled with an ambulance district and two paramedics for $1.975 million.

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