A Kansas car accident in which a woman died will leave her survivors $1.3 million in settlement payments from two insurers.
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Read More »A Kansas car accident in which a woman died will leave her survivors $1.3 million in settlement payments from two insurers.
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Read More »A Kansas City attorney achieved a $3.35 million judgment for the widow and two children of a 29-year-old man killed in a 2017 car crash, leaving unresolved a challenge to Kansas’ cap on noneconomic damages in wrongful death cases.
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Read More »A wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from the July 2019 murder of two Wisconsin brothers in Missouri has resulted in a $2 million settlement.
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Read More »The owner of a St. Charles County sports bar reached a confidential settlement with the parents of a 23-year-old man who died in a one-car crash moments after leaving the bar. Gary and Julie Mills sued Premier Entertainment Saint Peters ...
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Read More »The parents of a teenage driver killed in a head-on collision settled a wrongful-death claim for $700,000, according to their attorney. Jared Rose said the collision between two pickup trucks took place in 2018 on a two-lane road in rural ...
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Read More »The widow of a 40-year-old Potosi man killed while trying to redirect traffic at an accident scene settled a wrongful-death suit for a total of $765,000 against the local volunteer fire department and the 18-year-old EMT who struck the man ...
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Read More »The Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District affirmed a nearly $870,000 verdict for the family of a man who died of complications from prostate surgery at a Sikeston hospital. Roosevelt Rhoden underwent a transurethral resection of the prostate at Missouri ...
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Read More »Plaintiffs filed suit against defendant, alleging he and others were responsible for the murder of plaintiffs’ decedent. Plaintiffs asserted a claim for wrongful death and fraudulent transfer, alleging defendant engaged in a series of financial transactions to hinder his creditors. ...
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Read More »The parties cross-appealed from the judgment entered in plaintiffs’ medical-malpractice and wrongful-death claim. Defendants argued that the trial court erred in not reducing the judgment by the amount of the settlement between plaintiffs and a joint-tortfeasor, while plaintiffs argued that ...
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Read More »Plaintiffs appealed from the denial of their new fraudulent-concealment claims, after defendants moved to dismiss plaintiffs’ wrongful-death claims as barred by the statute of limitations. Plaintiffs argued for tolling the limitations period based on defendants’ intentional efforts to fraudulently conceal ...
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Read More »An Oklahoma jury found that a railroad holds the bulk of the responsibility for a 2013 vehicle-train collision that killed a truck driver. “The Knight family is very thankful for the service of the jury and the judge,” said Grant ...
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