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The spouse of a deceased hairdresser sickened by asbestos will receive more than $940,000 for her late husband’s illness.
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Read More »Wife of hairdresser prevails on mesothelioma claim
Utility worker’s children settle for $791,291 under mesothelioma-benefit law
The estate of a longtime power company worker who died of mesothelioma reached a settlement of more than $791,000, according to the family’s attorney. Randall Barnes of Barnes & Associates in Jefferson City said the decedent, August Dudenhoeffer, worked for ...
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Read More »Mesothelioma-benefit law doesn’t apply to defunct employer
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Feb. 18 that the family of a man who died from asbestos exposure cannot recover under an enhanced-benefit law that was enacted long after his employer went out of business. In a 5-2 decision, the ...
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Read More »Jury finds Ford Motor Company liable for mechanic’s lung illness
Jurors in St. Louis on Aug. 22 found that Ford Motor Company was liable for the lung illness suffered by a South County man who worked as a mechanic at automobile dealerships from the 1960s to the 1980s. According to ...
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Read More »Eastern District says insurers on the hook for long-ago cases
The Court of Appeals Eastern District says the family of a man who died from asbestos exposure can recover under Missouri’s enhanced-benefits law, even though it was enacted decades after his employer went out of business. In a split ruling ...
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Read More »Negligence : Product Liability – Mesothelioma – Damages
Poage v. Crane Co. (MLW No. 70494/Case No. ED103953 – 43 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Dolan, J.)
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Read More »Negligence : Product Liability – Mesothelioma – Damages
Poage v. Crane Co. (MLW No. 70494/Case No. ED103953 – 43 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Dolan, J.)
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Read More »Senate debates Second Injury Fund
A debate over the fate of the Second Injury Fund will continue. The Missouri Senate last week spent days working on a bill that would put more money into the nearly insolvent fund while limiting the types of disabilities it covers, but lawmakers reached no resolution.
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Read More »Family wins $4.5 million in asbestos death case
A Clay County jury awarded $4.5 million on Wednesday in a family’s wrongful death asbestos lawsuit. The suit was brought by the wife and two children of a Kansas City ceiling tile installer, Robert Wagner. Wagner worked for various contractors ...
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Read More »Family awarded $4.5M in asbestos wrongful death case
A Clay County jury awarded $4.5 million in a family’s asbestos wrongful death case. Robert Wagner, of Kansas City, worked as a ceiling tile installer for more than 30 years and was exposed to a variety of materials containing asbestos. Wagner developed ...
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Read More »‘Fear of cancer’ damages overturned in railroad case
The U.S. Supreme Court, siding with a CSX Corp. unit and the railroad industry, set aside a $5 million award to a man who said his 33-year career as a company electrician was to blame for his brain damage and ...
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