Family members of Kathleen Koutroubis, the 73-year-old grandmother killed in 2016 by a drag-racing wreck in Frontenac, have settled with two defendants in their wrongful-death lawsuit. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company paid the deceased woman’s sons, James and John ...

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A Clay County jury deliberated for nine hours before siding with a North Kansas City medical clinic, doctor and nurse in an infant wrongful-death lawsuit. Natalie and John Piatt filed the suit after the Jan. 22, 2015 death of their ...

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A truck crash that killed a woman and severely injured her adult daughter resulted in a $4 million total settlement, according to an attorney for the plaintiffs. Robert D. Curran of the Curran Law Firm in Springfield said the accident ...

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A dispute stemming from how wrongful-death settlement funds should be distributed has led the Missouri Supreme Court to roll back the standard for appellate review in such cases. In a unanimous ruling July 16, the court affirmed a lower-court judgment ...

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An Ohio hospital paid the estate of astronaut Neil Armstrong $6 million in a confidential agreement to settle allegations that post-surgical complications led to Armstrong’s 2012 death, according to court documents and a report in the New York Times. The 2014 ...

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An Ohio hospital paid the estate of astronaut Neil Armstrong $6 million in a confidential agreement to settle allegations that post-surgical complications led to Armstrong’s 2012 death, according to court documents and a report in the New York Times. The 2014 ...

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The sister of a woman who died in the days after a car accident settled a wrongful-death claim for $750,000. “We had a medical causation problem,” said Zane Cagle of Cagle Law Firm. “She went into the hospital after the ...

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A faulty smoke detector at an Independence rental house led to a $1.6 million settlement for the mother of a 5-year-girl killed in a 2017 fire that broke out in the family’s first day at their new home. Tiffanie Burcham, ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ordered a St. Louis judge to reapportion a wrongful-death settlement, saying a 2 percent share for the decedent’s once-estranged mother was “grossly inadequate.” Nicklaus Macke, 25, died in a car crash on April ...

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