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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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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A St. Louis jury awarded $4.5 million to the family of a man who drowned when a towboat sank. Patrick Bader of Bader & Murov represented Oliver Johnson, a mate working the deck of the M/V Charlie Boy under the ...

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A 2015 traffic accident in the Kansas City area which left one person dead resulted in a $775,000 settlement due to a damaged safety device along the roadway. “They knew it was broken, and they should have fixed it sooner,” ...

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Where a plaintiff, who argued as a personal representative that the decedent’s death was due to excessive force from officers, challenged the dismissal of a wrongful-death claim that was filed more than four years after the incident, arguing that the ...

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The family of a woman who died from a fall while exiting a vehicle will receive no damages from a Missouri town in the wake of a dispute centering on ownership of a disused rail line. Jana Richards and Josh ...

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A pair of Kansas City attorneys has obtained a $4.1 million wrongful-death settlement in the case of a motorcyclist who crashed with a truck driver who was found to have a habit of disregarding stop signs. Michael C. Rader and ...

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St. Charles County jurors determined that a mental health professional was not liable after a man murdered his family within hours of his last therapy session. Thomas Comer killed his wife Carole and two adult children, Rebecca Kelleher and John ...

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The daughter of an 82-year-old woman who was struck by a vehicle driven by her nurse and died of complications following the incident has agreed to settle her wrongful-death suit against the nurse’s company for $400,000. Her attorney, Rachel Stahle ...

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Two home health care companies have agreed to pay $250,000 to the family of a Barry County man who died of sepsis from bedsores while under their care. Troy Townsend, 53, of Washburn, died in December 2014. His three surviving ...

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The Kansas City Council has approved a $100,000 settlement in the wrongful-death case of a 14-year-old who was beaten and fatally shot at a South Kansas City water park in 2015. The suit stemmed from the death of Alexis Kane, ...

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