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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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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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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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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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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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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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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