A Sugar Creek couple has agreed to settle their medical-malpractice suit against The Children’s Mercy Hospital, bringing to a close an unusually contentious case marked by discovery disputes, atypical hostility between counsel and ultimately an attempt to remove the judge.

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A plaintiff who alleged negligence by a doctor during spinal surgery reached a $425,000 settlement, according to the plaintiff’s attorney. Brent A. Sumner of the Sumner Law Group in St. Louis said the defendant doctor allegedly malpositioned the screws during ...

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St. Charles County jurors determined that a mental health professional was not liable after a man murdered his family within hours of his last therapy session. Thomas Comer killed his wife Carole and two adult children, Rebecca Kelleher and John ...

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Where plaintiffs brought a medical-negligence action against their health care providers claiming that negligent post-operative medical care of an ovarian cyst resulted in the woman’s infertility and related complications, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the evidence raised a ...

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Plaintiffs sued defendant medical malpractice, alleging defendant failed to exercise reasonable care to counteract the side effects of medication it prescribed. During trial, the district court excluded plaintiff’s expert, concluding he was “not qualified to testify regarding the standard of ...

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Plaintiff appealed the adverse grant of summary judgment based on her lack of standing. Plaintiff filed suit against defendant on behalf of the estate of her deceased husband. Where the probate court reappointed plaintiff as administrator ab initio after she ...

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A Scott County jury awarded nearly $870,000 to the family of a man who died after suffering a year of complications from prostate surgery at a Sikeston hospital. Roosevelt Rhoden underwent a transurethral resection of the prostate at Missouri Delta ...

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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 ...

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A Cape Girardeau County jury sided with a group of medical providers who were alleged to have negligently injured a man’s esophagus following a bariatric surgery. During the procedure at St. Francis Medical Center in 2013, certified registered nurse anesthetist ...

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St. Louis County jurors have ruled that a doctor is not liable in the death of a woman who died after one of her blood vessels tore during a cardiac catheterization. Plaintiff Thomas Grellner is the surviving husband of patient ...

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Sherrer v. Boston Scientific Corporation (MLW No. 72016/Case No.WD80010 – 60 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Martin, J.

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