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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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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