A St. Louis County jury rejected a medical-malpractice claim by the family of a man who died following his admission to Mercy Hospital for atrial fibrillation. The jury deliberated for about two hours following a seven-day trial in July. The ...

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Police shot and killed a man, whose grandmother filed a wrongful-death suit, claiming to be his next of kin. The man was survived by his parents, both of whom were incarcerated at the time. The man’s father wrote to the ...

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Defendants, representing passengers injured and killed in a car accident involving a vehicle operated by Blake Isaacson, who was insured by plaintiff, appealed from the grant of summary judgment to plaintiff. On appeal, defendants argued that the district court should ...

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Defendant sought his father’s admission to plaintiff’s rehabilitation facility. As part of the admission process, defendant signed an admission agreement that included an arbitration agreement and waiver of jury trial. However, defendant was not his father’s legal guardian or attorney-in-fact. ...

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Where a mother, who was minimally involved in her son’s childhood and life, challenged the distribution of a majority of the proceeds from her son’s wrongful-death settlement to the father, the mother did not show that the trial court abused ...

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Where the family of a man who died in an accident at a assembly plant sued the plant owner for wrongful death, the trial court did not err in refusing to allow a plant witness to testify because he had ...

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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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