The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing whether the plaintiffs in a medical-malpractice verdict the court overturned earlier this year should get a new trial. The court on Sept. 4 heard a rare second round of arguments in the case. In ...

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In a rare move, the Missouri Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider a February ruling in which it overturned a $2.3 million verdict against a Kansas City-area surgical center. The original ruling said the plaintiffs had failed to prove the ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court overturned a $2.3 million verdict against a Kansas City-area surgical center, citing a lack of proof that the facility was negligent in providing credentials to the surgeon who operated on the plaintiff.

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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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