A St. Louis jury awarded $11 million to a man who shot himself in the eye with a pneumatic staple gun, though jurors also held the plaintiff 30 percent at fault for his injury.

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A man who was severely injured when he was dumped from bucket truck onto the parking lot 30 feet below reached an $8.3 million settlement, according to his attorneys.

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A Phelps County judge gave final approval in the waning days of 2022 to a class-action settlement on claims that certain brands of infant formula were inaccurately labeled.

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A St. Francois County awarded $29 million to two workers injured when the wooden trusses they were installing collapsed under them.

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A St. Louis County jury decided that a body armor manufacturer will not pay $34 million for a City of Florissant police officer’s paralysis after he was shot on duty while wearing its armored vest.

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A St. Louis law firm said it obtained a $15.5 million settlement for a 3-year-old girl in Oklahoma who suffered a traumatic brain injury when she became entangled in the cord of a window blind.

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Plaintiff suffered serious injuries to his fingers. He filed suit against defendant, the successor to the designer of the machine that injured him. The district court granted summary judgment to defendant, ruling that plaintiff failed to provide evidence of when ...

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Plaintiff suffered serious injuries to his fingers. He filed suit against defendant, the successor to the designer of the machine that injured him. The district court granted summary judgment to defendant, ruling that plaintiff failed to provide evidence of when ...

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Where a tree service employee, who was injured while working, sued a wood chipper manufacturer, the employee’s motion to remand is affirmed because even if the district court erred, the employee cannot get the relief he wanted according to prior ...

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Where property owners brought an action alleging that a fire was caused by a defective refrigerator installed in  a recreational vehicle, the defendant sold but did not manufacture, design or assemble the refrigerator, so it was immune from liability under ...

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Defendants appealed from the judgment entered against them, awarding plaintiff actual and punitive damages for plaintiff’s use of defendants’ talc products. On appeal, defendants argued that the trial court lacked personal jurisdiction over them. The trial court exceeded its authority ...

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