The mother of a 34-year-old woman with cerebral palsy who died after breaking her leg at a central Missouri assisted-living center settled a suit against the owners for $325,000. Jessica Bowers had been in the care of Pierce Home in ...

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A Jackson County judge has ordered $10,000 in sanctions against an attorney after finding she violated a gag order in a wrongful-death case involving her client, the suspect in the slaying of Kansas City attorney Thomas Pickert. On May 15, ...

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The family of a child who died when she became entangled in the pull cord of a window blind reached a $1.525 million settlement with the blind’s retailer and manufacturer, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney. James T. Corrigan of O’Leary, ...

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The parents of a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a vehicle last year in Independence have agreed to settle their lawsuit against the driver for $2 million, according to the family’s attorneys. Nicholas Hinrichs of the Hinrichs Law ...

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Jackson County jurors found against the son of a trucker who claimed his father’s traffic death was the result of negligence by the vehicle mechanic who worked on his tractor trailer. “It was a surprising verdict actually,” said James D. ...

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The family of a man who choked to death at a Kansas City nursing home reached a $1 million settlement, according to the plaintiffs’ attorneys. Attorneys Brett Williams Brown & Crouppen and Jonathan Steele of The Steele Law Firm said ...

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  Where plaintiffs sought a declaration that they were entitled to bring a wrongful-death action as the equitable adoptive parents of an  incapacitated person, the doctrine of equitable adoption is solely for the benefit of the child, so adoptive parents ...

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  Plaintiffs appealed the grant of summary judgment to defendant, which argued that plaintiffs’ wrongful-death action was barred by the applicable statute of limitations. On appeal, plaintiffs argued that their action was timely filed and re-filed within the statutory savings ...

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The adult children of a Canadian couple who died in a single-vehicle accident in Livingston County will receive a settlement of more than $575,000. Douglas R. Bradley of Bradley and Bradley, who represented the adult children of Sheri and Leslie ...

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A Jackson County judge has ordered that the daughter of a man accused of killing a Kansas City attorney be jailed for contempt of court.

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The family of an epileptic man in southwest Missouri who suffered a seizure, crashed his car and was fatally shot by a responding officer settled with the city of Republic and two of its police officers for $1.2 million. The ...

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