A St. Louis jury deliberated for less than an hour before siding with two contractors sued by a nationally prominent developer of student housing regarding water damage to an apartment complex next to Saint Louis University. Education Realty Trust sued ...

Tagged with: Fox Smith Law Negligence

Plaintiff filed a negligence action against defendant insurers on a claim of negligence, alleging that they negligently hired a contractor to remediate a leak in plaintiff’s home that subsequently caused plaintiff to become ill. The trial court granted summary judgment ...

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A woman who received a $1.5 million verdict in 2018 for a T-bone crash near a Taco Bell restaurant in St. Louis must take her case to trial for a second time as a result of a ruling by the ...

Tagged with: Brown & James Finney Injury Law Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Motor vehicle collision Negligence

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Missouri Supreme Court is poised to hear a case that potentially could open the door for plaintiffs to bring negligence claims against religious entities. On Dec. 31, the Missouri Court ...

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A 39-year-old mentally disabled woman who was sexually assaulted by another resident of a group home settled her claim for $1.75 million, according to her attorney. Jill Kanatzar of Dollar Burns & Becker in Kansas City said the victim, who ...

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A man who was taken into police custody at gunpoint while driving a rental vehicle settled with Hertz for $25,000 after alleging the company wrongly reported the car had been stolen, according to his attorney. Zachary D. Poole of ZDP ...

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  Where plaintiff and her husband challenged the admission of photographs of a damaged rental vehicle after a judgment for the plaintiff on her negligence action against a driver who rear-ended her vehicle, the judgment regarding the liability of respondents ...

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Where a man, who was injured at work when a co-worker allegedly allowed a roller door to fall on him, sued the co-worker for personal injury, the co-worker’s actions in loosening bolts and prying the door loose from wall anchors ...

Tagged with: co-employee liability Negligence ‘Inherently Dangerous Conduct’

Where a plaintiff, who was injured when he fell from a bridge, appealed a directed verdict in favor of the city defendant, arguing that he made a submissible case for waiver of the city’s sovereign immunity, the judgment is reversed ...

Tagged with: Dangerous Condition Negligence personal injury Sovereign Immunity

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled May 14 in favor of a man who fell off a short bridge in Union and sued that city for negligence. The question for the panel was whether Judge Gael D. Wood ...

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  Where plaintiffs sought a declaration that they were entitled to bring a wrongful-death action as the equitable adoptive parents of an  incapacitated person, the doctrine of equitable adoption is solely for the benefit of the child, so adoptive parents ...

Tagged with: Equitable Adoption Negligence Standing wrongful death