A jury awarded $350,000 to families of toddlers whom eyewitnesses said were abused at an Emporia State University-run daycare center. The unanimous verdict against the school and its daycare director came in less than three hours after a six-day trial ...

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An Iowa woman injured during a family Fourth of July celebration in Boone County reached a $250,000 settlement with an insurer for her future in-law. “One of the mortars must have been knocked over or broken or something,” said plaintiff’s ...

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A late-night shoving match that ended with a gunshot in a St. Louis diner parking lot resulted in a verdict for the defense. Joshua Davis of Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice defended concealed-carry permit holder James Bommarito in connection with ...

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A Clay County dog owner attacked by her own pet will receive a $160,000 settlement from the agency that allowed her to adopt it. Elizabeth Seymour sued the KC Pet Project in connection to injuries she received from an American ...

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A bicyclist who crashed on a roadway in Boulder, Colorado, settled for $820,000 with a company alleged to have improperly patched the pavement, according to his attorney. Alvin A. Wolff Jr. of Wolff & Wolff Trial Lawyers in St. Louis ...

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Six defendants have agreed to pay a combined $47 million to plaintiffs affected by a boiler explosion that killed four people and injured three others in 2017 in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, according to the plaintiffs’ counsel. The ...

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A Kansas City man who fell from a rented hydraulic lift onto his driveway while painting his home settled a personal injury lawsuit against a regional hardware store for $3 million. David W. Taylor, 64, sued Euston’s Hardware Inc.  in ...

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Where an insurer challenged the denial of its motion to set aside judgments in a dispute over an agreement to limit damages in a personal injury lawsuit to the amount of insurance coverage, the judgment is affirmed because the parties ...

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Where a medical-device manufacturer challenged the enforcement of a child-support lien on the proceeds of a personal-injury action that it paid to the plaintiff’s ex-husband, arguing that the plaintiff failed to comply with the exclusive statutory method for attaching the ...

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Skaggs Chiropractic, LLC v. Ford (MLW No. 71729/Case No. SD35234 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, J.)

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A.H. v. Midwest Bus Sales, Inc. (MLW No. 69194/Case No. 15-2317 – 12 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Riley, J.)

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