A St. Louis County jury rejected a medical-malpractice claim for a woman’s death after surgery to fix her pacemaker. Sandra Watson, 59, underwent surgery to replace a generator on her pacemaker on Nov. 18, 2010. Her heart stopped during surgery ...

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A St. Louis County jury found a doctor was not negligent in the case of an Illinois woman who suffered partial blindness after the doctor referred her to another physician. “The allegation of negligence boiled down to Dr. Thomas’ referral ...

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A 23-year-old St. Charles County mother whose newborn died soon after labor and delivery complications settled a wrongful-death claim against St. Louis-based SSM Health for $750,000. Plaintiff’s attorney Matt O’Grady said his client’s infant daughter Ariel was declared dead 10 ...

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  Defendant appealed from the judgment entered against it in plaintiff’s medical-malpractice action, alleging defendant’s employee physician negligently installed an artificial hip in plaintiff. Defendant argued, among other issues, that the trial court erred in its evidentiary rulings regarding qualifications ...

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  Where a plaintiff sued a surgery center claiming that it negligently granted surgical privileges to a surgeon who injured him during a gall bladder-removal procedure, the jury verdict for the plaintiff is reversed because the plaintiff failed to present ...

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Boone County jurors decided that a doctor was not negligent in connection with nerve injuries suffered by a child during a difficult delivery. “The primary issue was whether or not Dr. [Kimberly] Morse applied too much traction, more than a ...

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A Jackson County jury decided that doctors at a Kansas City hospital were not liable for permanent injuries suffered by a pre-term baby at the center of a multi-million dollar medical malpractice matter. “It was a well-tried, hard-fought case on ...

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A female patient who alleged she suffered permanent injuries to her hand from a post-surgical blood clot reached an $800,000 out-of-court settlement with a Missouri hospital, according to her attorney. After undergoing heart surgery, the patient received an arterial line, ...

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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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