Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from August 2008

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from August 2008

8th Circuit Court of Appeals rules dissent takes trial court to task over Batson.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco The conviction of a black man for first-degree murder by an all-white jury was upheld Tuesday over the defendant's Batson challenge by a divided 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Defendant Herbert Smulls...

Missouri Supreme Court: Imprecise opinions.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Bryan Utter Everybody makes mistakes, but a recent Missouri Supreme Court case shows that when it comes to judicial opinions, sometimes even the most benign error can take up to a quarter-century to set right. In its decision...

Decision from Mo. Southern District COA extends employee rights under old workers' comp law.(Missouri)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Bryan Utter Workers' compensation protections just got a boost from the Southern District Court of Appeals. The appellate court's July 9 opinion in Meyers v. Wildcat Materials, Inc. extends the rights of employees to be...

Mo. Supreme Court rules commitment allowed for prior SVP offenses.(sexually violent crime, Missouri)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese A divided Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed a man's commitment as a sexually violent predator, even though the sentence he was completing did not qualify as a sexually violent crime. The court heard arguments in...

Six months of coping for two St. Louis lawyers.(John Hessel and Ignatius Yuan on losing their friends in a gun shooting)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Betsy Lee John Hessel dreams about Cookie Thornton. In these vivid yet shadowy visions, Cookie chases him through the Kirkwood city council chambers. Some nights, the dreams end with Hessel scrambling down a flight of stairs,...

Mo. Supreme Court rules distress claim eludes 'zone of danger'.(Missouri)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese A man involved in a crash can sue the other driver for emotional distress from seeing the other man's dead child, the Supreme Court has ruled. Tommy Jarrett brought a negligence case against Michael Jones after...

Tradition meets ambition for Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Scott Lauck In the flurry of last week, between last-minute hand downs and the needs of his family, outgoing Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. made his last drive as a member of the Missouri Supreme Court from Cape Girardeau to the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Domestic Relations Modification - Past-Due Child Support - Bond Where a father, who was more than $10,000 behind in child support payments, filed a motion to modify custody and for abatement of...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Post- Conviction Relief - Guilty Plea - Punishment Range Even though a judge did not go over the possible sentences with a criminal defendant, the waiver form signed by defendant...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Insurance Refusal To Settle - Bad Faith - Punitive Damages (1) Where an insurer refused to settle for the $50,000 policy limits a claim resulting from an auto accident in which the insured...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Venue - PSC - Penalty Action Where the Public Service Commission brought a penalty action against a water and sewer company in Boone County, under the applicable and specific...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Medicare Reimbursement - Adjustment Request - Timeliness Where a hospital sought judicial review after its adjustment request for Medicare reimbursement was denied as untimely,...

Verdicts & Settlements August 4, 2008: Bank, developers agree to $10.75M judgment.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese A bank and developers who were trying to refurbish a St. Louis building and turn it into work space and condominiums have reached a $10.75 million consent judgment. Great Southern Bank sued CHD Design Development...

Verdicts & Settlements August 4, 2008: Family of hit-and-run victim reaches settlement.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Angela Riley The family of a man killed in a hit-and-run accident by an impaired driver reached an $800,000 settlement with the driver and his employer. On May 18, 2007, Duane Heasty Jr. had been dropped off at the movie...

Insurer recovers $600K in property subrogation case.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale An insurance company has recovered $600,000 as subrogee in a Jackson County lawsuit claiming water damage from a negligent sprinkler inspection. PMA Insurance Co. insured U.S. Properties, the owner of a...

State of Missouri settles lawsuit over mental-health center death.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Angela Riley The mother of a mentally retarded man who swallowed a pen at the state-run Northwest Habilitation Center has reached a $354,000 settlement with the state over his death. Attorney General Jay Nixon's office paid...

St. Charles County Circuit Court rules subdivision did not discriminate against disabled homeowner.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale The trustees of a St. Charles County subdivision have prevailed in a lawsuit accusing them of disability discrimination against a disabled homeowner. After the St. Charles County jury returned a defense verdict, the...

Commentary: Authors, will bumping and termination.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Francis M. Nevins How much testamentary freedom do authors enjoy? If you think copyright owners enjoy the same power to dispose of their property the way people who own personalty or realty do, you are in for a surprise. From...

Responses to gender survey down by Missouri Bar members.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole How women and minorities are treated in law firms and in the courts isn't as hot a topic now as it was 15 years ago. At least that's the impression given by the number of responses to a "Gender and Justice" survey...

Missouri, Bryan Cave and Shook, Hardy & Bacon: On the move in D.C.(Washington, D.C.)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole In Missouri, Bryan Cave and Shook, Hardy & Bacon have their headquarters offices across the state from each other. Their Washington, D.C., offices soon will be housed in the same building. Bryan Cave is taking...

Missouri Legal Briefs: August 4, 2008.(Obituary)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Services are scheduled today for Kansas City attorney Frank Smith III, who died July 30. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and services will be 10:30 a.m. at St. Monica Catholic Church,...

Should you make a federal case out of your case?
August 4, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan Most of the time the decision of where to file a lawsuit is an easy one. But sometimes lawyers are faced with cases where both state and federal courts may have jurisdiction. So then the lawyers must ask...

$36 million payday possible for Walters Bender Strohbehn & Vaughan attorneys in Kansas City.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Late last year, Walters Bender Strohbehn & Vaughan attorneys and paralegals were slogging through seven-day workweeks before and during a trial over alleged illegal mortgage loan fees. Some attorneys and paralegals...

Top stock options.(Brief article)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Former Anheuser-Busch Cos. chief legal officer Mark Bobak's $5.3 million stock option award was the biggest last year for the 100 highest paid general counsels, according to Corporate Counsel's 2008 ranking. Bobak's...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: August 11, 2008.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Simon Passanante raised $15,600 for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri during a benefit seminar this year at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis. Attorney Amy Collignon Gunn organized the seminar,...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: No derivative claim allowed in genital mutilation case.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco A Gambian woman who was subjected to female genital mutilation and feared that her two American-born daughters would be forced to undergo the practice was denied withholding of removal by the 8th U.S. Circuit...

Commentary: Paternity sometimes muddies wrongful death suits.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan The death of a child is one of the most painful experiences a parent could endure. Whether through an accident, sickness or violence, it is a loss than can never be made whole. Should the child's death occur...

St. Louis-based General American receivership pays $3.1M for defense legal bills.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole After the liquidators of General American settled with an investment bank and an accounting firm, a former executive remained a defendant in the lawsuit over the insurance company's collapse. Leonard Rubenstein,...

Missouri Supreme Court: Expert testimony OK'd for medical malpractice theory.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka The most famous embodiment of the legal concept of res ipsa loquitur is the surgical sponge left in the body. It's an injury so obvious that you don't need expert testimony to prove the doctor was negligent. In a...

Radio Activity: Five Kansas City lawyers discuss having radio shows.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Bridget Heos If you've ever written an op-ed for the newspaper, you know it feels good to articulate your views to an audience. Some lawyers take that a step further by having their own radio show. For lawyers who have thought...

Missouri mediators subject to disciplinary proceedings.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka A Supreme Court rule quietly handed down a year ago places Missouri lawyers who work as mediators or arbitrators under the jurisdiction of the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel. Under Rule 4-2.4 of the lawyers'...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Dismissal - Failure To Prosecute Where a trial court in 2004 dismissed without prejudice a suit filed by a property buyer in 1998 after a failed real estate transaction and the...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Incarceration Reimbursement - 'Good Cause' - Sufficient Funds Where the state sought incarceration reimbursement from an inmate, the inmate presented evidence that money in his...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Post-Conviction Relief - Reopening - Abandonment Where the motion court found that defendant was abandoned by counsel who failed to file his notice of appeal and restarted the time...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court - App. Panel Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Brief article)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy IRA Exemption - Lack Of Response - Standing Where a debtor did not file a response to the trustee's objection to debtor's claim of exemption in an individual retirement account, the...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Banks and Banking Security Interest - Sale Proceeds - Notice Where a bank that held a security interest in a dairy farm brought an action against competing creditors for allegedly retaining...

Verdicts & Settlements August 11, 2008: Jury finds property owner deserved more compensation.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese A property owner challenged the amount that St. Louis was paying to take its land, and a jury has agreed, finding the land was worth more than double the city's offer. The St. Louis Land Clearance for Redevelopment...

Verdicts & Settlements August 11, 2008: Motorcyclist awarded $200,000 for soft-tissue injuries.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A Jackson County jury awarded $200,000 to a motorcyclist injured after another motorist allegedly caused him to lose control and crash. "The challenge of the case was convincing the jury to award significant...

Verdicts & Settlements August 11, 2008: Child settles over tire blowout that killed father.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale The young daughter of a man killed after a tire blowout has reached a confidential settlement in her Jefferson County products liability case against three tire manufacturers. The plaintiff alleged the retreaded...

Verdicts & Settlements August 11, 2008: Determined father reaches settlement in wrongful death claim.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Angela Riley After a paternity battle in court, the determined father of a woman killed in a traffic accident reached a $534,099 settlement with the driver's insurance company. The suit wasn't the typical wrongful death claim....

Verdicts & Settlements August 8, 2008: Jury awards $2.58 million in medical malpractice suit.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Angela Riley A St. Louis County jury awarded $2.58 million to a husband and wife in a medical malpractice case where the man contracted a staph infection and lost his right leg, part of his left foot, a kidney and some hearing. ...

Verdicts & Settlements August 11, 2008: Jury clears SLU obstetrician of negligence.(Saint Louis University)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale Saint Louis University has prevailed in a medical negligence action alleging that a university-employed obstetrician failed to timely perform an operative delivery or Cesarean section, causing the child, now 7, to...

Verdicts & Settlements August 18, 2008: Wrongful death suit settles for $150,000.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese The mother of a woman who died after being slipped a drug has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the attacker for $150,000. Sandra Murray sued John Berger after her 26-year-old daughter Tressa Gross' death in...

Verdicts & Settlements August 18, 2008: Client settles legal malpractice case.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A client claiming his lawyer's mistakes and dishonesty caused him to lose nearly $350,000 in a collection case has reached a confidential settlement of his Jackson County legal malpractice case against the lawyer and...

Verdicts & Settlements August 18, 2008: Trucking company settles accident case for $3M.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter A trucking company agreed to pay $3 million to an elderly couple for injuries the husband suffered when a semitrailer hit the John Deere tractor he was driving. The husband was 61 when the accident occurred two...

Verdicts & Settlements August 18, 2008: Defense verdict returned in suicide wrongful death case.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Bridget Heos When a patient says he is suicidal, doctors at psychiatric hospitals take preventive measures. But because talk of suicide is so common among patients, psychiatrists make judgment calls every day as to how drastic the...

Missouri Supreme Court: Exceptions causing concern.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Mike Geigerman Most individuals would agree that confidentiality is fundamental to maintaining the integrity of the mediation process. Until recently, Missouri practitioners and mediators could justifiably feel secure that there...

Missouri's lawyer-legislators prepare for battle.(Brief article)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka In this heated election year, dozens of lawyers are vying for spots in the General Assembly come November and have the potential to up the number of attorneys in Jefferson City. Twenty-eight lawyers sat in the...

Kansas City's Shook, Hardy & Bacon: A firm environment for women and mothers.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Shook, Hardy & Bacon was recognized as one of the top 50 law firms for women by Working Mother magazine. The Kansas City firm earned accolades from the publication for its 14 weeks of leave for new parents, both...

Early returns.(Brief article)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Richard Jackoway Ballots are rolling in already for the second annual Missouri's Best survey of the legal profession. We thought you might want to have a sneak peek at some top contenders in the early returns. Missouri's Best...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: August 18, 2008.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Jennifer Collet has joined Spencer Fane Britt & Browne as the firm's new marketing director. Collet, who has 20 years' experience in marketing, was previously the director of marketing at Andrews...

Cannon Law: Canon law in KC.(Kansas City)(Brief article)
August 18, 2008... Byline: MOLW Staff In October, the Kansas City archdiocese is to host close to 400 canon lawyers at the national convention of the Canon Law Society of America. The five-day convention will include workshops on the similarities and...

Cannon Law: The career arc of a canon lawyer.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka The majority of the 2,500 canon lawyers in the United States are priests, but as the number of priests declines worldwide, there has been a push in recent years for more laypeople and women to enter the field. At...

What Missouri's civil lawyers learn from the Church's legal system.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka So-called activist judges are frequent foes of political groups in Missouri, some of which have waged expensive campaigns to go after judges who they say are legislating from the bench. The Catholic Church shares...

Archbishop Raymond Burke: From St. Louis to Rome.(Apostolic Signatura)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka When Archbishop Raymond Burke made it a habit to publicly refuse Holy Communion to Catholic politicians and public figures who supported abortion rights, he was relying on more than strident personal belief. It...

Loan plans designed to entice new public defenders in Missouri.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese Law students preparing for graduation and struggling between the public-service jobs they crave and the salaries they need have some relief that could make the decision easier. Loan forgiveness programs from the...

Commentary: Top psychiatric experts sway jury.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Will Connaghan Explaining medical cases to a jury is always a daunting task. When the case involves a mental illness the explanation can become even more difficult. Selecting the right expert witnesses for a psychiatric medical...

Cannon Law: Civil divorce and religious annulments.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka The U.S. canon lawyers and judges who handle hundreds of marriage cases each year dislike the word "annulment." Annulment is an American legal word thrust upon their legal system, they say. But according to...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: August 18, 2008.(Brief article)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Judgments - Finality Where several clients of a law firm, including several individuals and a corporate entity, sued the firm as a whole and several of the firm's members...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 18, 2008.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Ineffective Assistance of Counsel - Uncalled Witnesses - Trial Strategy Where a defendant convicted of first degree murder filed for post-conviction relief claiming...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 18, 2008.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Review Board - Licenses - Professional Misconduct Where disciplinary action against the license of a dentist with practices in Missouri and Wisconsin was based off an order of...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court - App. Panel Case Summaries: August 18, 2008.(Brief article)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Partnerships - Alter Ego - Default Judgment Where a bankruptcy court entered a default judgment against two partnerships finding they were the alter ego of a Chapter 7 debtor, the...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 18, 2008.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Wetlands Conversion Where the Swampbuster provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 prohibited converting a wetland in order to make it possible to farm where it was not...

Off hours: St. Louis attorney's coins tell the history of the world.(Tom Schweich)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Bridget Heos When Tom Schweich was eight years old, his dad gave him a 1909 penny. He still has it. In fact, the Bryan Cave lawyer in St. Louis has all the small change his father, an executive at the May department stores,...

Verdicts & Settlements August 18, 2008: Union Pacific must pay injured ex-worker.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Angela Riley A former switchman for Union Pacific Railroad, who can no longer work due to osteoarthritis, was awarded $1.43 million in a personal injury lawsuit against the railroad on Tuesday in St. Louis City Circuit Court. ...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Hays orders psych evaluation for KC lawyer.(Carlos Romious)
August 25, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Hays has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a Kansas City lawyer involved in a series of disturbances the past four months. Carlos Romious will be committed up to 30 days to the U.S....

Commentary: Still time to vote for Missouri's Best survey.(Brief article)
August 25, 2008... Byline: Richard Jackoway Because of some technical glitches and heavy competition from the Olympics, we're extending polling in the annual Missouri's Best survey of the legal profession until Aug. 28. That means you have until Thursday...

Thompson Coburn is only Missouri-based firm in top 20 job satisfaction survey.(Brief article)
August 25, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole Thompson Coburn fell three slots but still was the only Missouri-based firm to rank in the Top 20 for midlevel associate job satisfaction in The American Lawyer magazine's 2008 annual survey. Thompson Coburn came...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: August 25, 2008.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Gov. Matt Blunt appointed Shane T. Alexander as a circuit judge for the 7th Judicial Circuit in Clay County. Alexander, 40, of Smithville, is the chief assistant prosecuting attorney for Clay County...

Law firms must prepare for disaster.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Heather Cole When old friends and former prosecutors Chris Goeke and Jeff Hilliard launched a law firm together, they didn't do anything the experts advised. They didn't sign an operating or partnership agreement. They didn't...

Election increases diversity on Missouri Bar's Board of Governors.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Elections earlier this month slightly bolstered the diversity on The Missouri Bar's governing body. The eight new governors elected to the board include two women, Megan E. Phillips and Patricia A. Sexton, and one...

Jefferson City law firm loses seized drug money to state.(Hanrahan Trapp)
August 25, 2008... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco The state will be reimbursed from seized drug money for the incarceration of a man who promised the money to the law firm that represented him on possession charges. The Jefferson City law firm of Hanrahan...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: August 25, 2008.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Purchase Contract - Home Warranty - Damages Where home buyers sued a builder under the Missouri Merchandising Practice Act after they failed to timely receive warranties that were...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: August 25, 2008.(Brief article)
August 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Forgery - Evidence - Sufficiency Where defendant's forgery conviction was supported by evidence that, after defendant's friend purchased a car and found the prior owner's...

Missouri Court Of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: August 25, 2008.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Consumer- Directed Services - Eligibility - New Statute Where changes to the law defining eligibility for the Consumer-Directed Services program restrict the personal-assistance...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court - App. Panel Case Summaries: August 25, 2008.(Brief article)
August 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy IRA - Spouse - Income (1)Where a bankruptcy trustee forced the debtor to include in her statement of current monthly income the distribution her non-debtor husband took from his IRA...

United States Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: August 25, 2008.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Secured Lenders - Subsequent Purchasers - Priority of Interest Where a dispute arose between a lender with a security interest in a limestone quarry operator's inventory and...

Making your case: A new world for voice mails.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka In a legal world of Blackberries, Treos and iPhones, voice mail and e-mail has become almost one and the same. For discovery purposes, that technological merger could be problematic or opportunistic. The...

Making your case: Experts expect trouble with documentation.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka Some attorneys are concerned a possible discovery rule could drive away expert witnesses, especially doctors. A proposed Supreme Court rule expands the information experts would have to disclose during deposition,...

Making your case: Metadata discovery debate: costly, ethical, necessary.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Todd B. Natenberg Changing technology has ushered in ethical questions about whether lawyers can search for hidden "metadata" in electronic documents they receive. The issue is a growing concern, and several states and the American...

Verdicts & Settlements August 25, 2008: Personal injury suit defendants agree to settlement.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Sarah Wienke The mother of a Defiance girl permanently disabled in a bike accident settled a portion of her St. Charles County personal injury suit with the engineer, developer and trustees of her subdivision for a total of $2...

Verdicts & Settlements August 25, 2008: Construction worker recovers $900K.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A construction worker has reached a $900,000 global settlement of his Buchanan County personal injury claims arising from a electrical accident at a construction site. Marcos D. Teixeira, a 25-year-old Brazilian...

Verdicts & Settlements August 25, 2008: St. Louis University cleared of gender discrimination.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A St. Louis jury returned a verdict in favor of Saint Louis University and two university employees in a lawsuit accusing them of gender discrimination, retaliation and wrongful discharge. Plaintiff Jacqueline S....

Verdicts & Settlements August 25, 2008: Human error, not crane, caused electrocution.
August 25, 2008... Byline: Charles Emerick A crane company was not liable for the debilitating injuries a Buckner man suffered when he was electrocuted on the job more than three years ago. A Jackson County jury, which heard evidence for nearly two...