The storm that hit St. Louis in July 2006 knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of residents, downed trees and power lines and damaged the historic Switzer Building on Laclede’s Landing beyond repair. Just two miles south of downtown ...

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A Cole County jury has awarded more than $1 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit. David Smith alleged that he sustained severe kidney damage after his doctor, Patrick Sporleder, of Associated Family Physicians in Jefferson City, failed to inform him ...

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A Jackson County jury has awarded $1.5 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit against tobacco company Brown & Williamson. The amount is a fraction of the $110 million plaintiffs’ attorney Ken McClain requested in closing arguments yesterday. It’s also ...

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 Editor’s note: The original post listed the damages as economic, rather than noneconomic. Parents were awarded $6 million in a wrongful death case in which they alleged that Saint Louis University’s failure to diagnose and treat a bacterial infection led ...

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An appeals court has reinstated a $17.3 million jury verdict that a Jackson County trial judge had thrown out after trial. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District this morning said the class of about 314,000 plaintiffs had established that ...

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Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, was told by a federal jury to pay $388 million to a Singapore company for stealing a patented invention used to deter software piracy. The jury in Providence, R.I., deliberated less than two ...

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A St. Louis County judge has increased a $4.9 million jury verdict to a printing company’s minority shareholder to more than $5.6 million. A jury awarded $1.9 million in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages to Stephen Smith ...

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A St. Louis County judge has increased a $4.9 million jury verdict to a printing company’s minority shareholder to more than $5.6 million. A jury on March 20 awarded $1.9 million in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive to ...

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Owners of an unusual commercial vehicle are entitled to lost profits for loss of use and replacement costs of the vehicle when it is damaged in a wreck, said the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Supreme Court affirmed a trial court's award of $201,000 to Gateway Foam Insulators Inc. for the loss of profits, replacement cost and environmental cleanup costs, associated with the wreck of its specialized foam insulation installation truck. The court only reversed an $11,723 award for loan interest.

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A U.S. district judge has refused to reject a $16 million verdict to a man in his wrongful imprisonment case and awarded his attorneys approximately $1.6 million in fees and costs. In August, a jury awarded Theodore W. White Jr. ...

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A federal jury in Iowa has awarded $7.5 million to a man who worked at a microwave popcorn plant and developed a lung disease caused by a chemical in the artificial butter flavor. The plaintiff, 69-year-old Ronald Kuiper, did not ...

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