Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from February 2007

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from February 2007

Non-physical injury settlements and verdicts are fully taxable.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Kelly Ramsdale How many times have we heard that we live in a litigious age? People are suing each other for just about everything. Some cases are sensationalized and ridiculous, but most are genuine cases where someone was...

St. Louis's Metropolitan Square Building's largest tenant adorns monument outside building.(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Bryan Cave's logo finally adorns a 10-foot-high slab of granite erected more than seven months ago in front of the Metropolitan Square Building in downtown St. Louis. Bryan Cave, which is the largest tenant in the...

New name, new Congress give hope to plaintiffs' bar, renamed for justice.(Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Nora Lockwood Tooher - Dolan Media Newswires With a new name and a Democratic majority in Congress, the national plaintiff lawyers' organization formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America is optimistic that the...

Existing and former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices pay visits to St. Louis.(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Will Connaghan U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be paying visits to St. Louis over the next two weeks. Roberts is slated to serve on the panel of judges for the annual...

Missouri law firms announce personnel and management changes.(Suzanne S. Swacker)(Jeffrey H. Kass)(Brief article)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Carmody MacDonald's Suzanne S. Swacker was elected to the Board of Directors for the La Clinica Latino Community Health Centers. La Clinica is a multicultural proficient Health Care Center for the...

Former Xspedius Communications CEO demands over $3.8M from Missouri law firm.(Mark Senda)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Former Xspedius Communications Chief Executive Mark Senda demanded more than $3.8 million from Spencer Fane Britt & Browne before filing a malpractice lawsuit against the firm and three attorneys over their handling of...

Missouri public defenders hope for more people and more money.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Legislators last week issued a series of recommendations to shore up the Missouri State Public Defender's system, calling for a partial return to an arrangement the state abandoned 18 years ago. The Public...

Missouri Supreme Court says ambiguous insurance policies must be resolved in favor of insured.(Seeck v. Geico)(Case overview)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck It was a case that had Missouri attorney groups either worried or hopeful that a new principle was about to be carved out of the law. But in the end, Missouri Supreme Court said it really boiled down to a matter of...

Missouri judges and statewide elected officials are assured of getting a pay raise.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck For just a moment last week, it appeared that a proposal to veto judges' first pay raises in seven years might have a shot. The Senate committee considering the proposal, which had already cleared the House, took up a...

Out-of-court statements heard in background of 911 call admissible in Missouri court.(State v. Kemp )(Case overview)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Joy Simmons One morning in October 2003, Jackie Washington was running down the street, dressed only from the waist down, and extremely upset. She told her neighbor that her boyfriend, Lamont C. Kemp, had been holding her...

Advice for attorneys who want to go beyond the first steps of partnership.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole For attorneys who want to go beyond the first steps of partnership to equity partnership, having a big book of business may not be the be-all, end-all. Lacking a significant client base isn't a death knell to...

Partners tell how they made it and what new lawyers should do.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Charles Emerick It has been only a year since Willie Epps Jr. became a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon. But already he has learned that being partner requires a special ability to play well with others, in addition to the...

New Partners from Missouri's Top 20 law firms.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Anderson, Robyn L., Lathrop & Gage, Kansas City Askelsen, Erik H., Stinson Morrison Hecker, Kansas City Baris, Melissa Z., Husch & Eppenberger, LLC, St. Louis Barton,...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: February 5, 2007.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Default Judgment - Motion To Set Aside - Failure To File Where a defendant did not file a motion to set aside a default judgment against him in a property tax decision, the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: February 5, 2007.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice SLAPPS - Interlocutory Appeal - Special Motion To Dismiss Where a defendant faced with tort claims including libel and tortious interference with business relations raised...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: February 5, 2007.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Motion To Dismiss - Conversion To Summary Judgment - Waiver Where a defendant-insurer in a personal injury action attached evidence outside of the pleadings in the form of a...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: February 5, 2007.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Fraudulent Misrepresentation - Third- Party Beneficiary Expelled Student (1) Where a student sued a college professor for breach of contract based on an employment contract between...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: February 5, 2007.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Antitrust Sherman Act - Monopolization - Medical Device Where a manufacturer of a medical device used in dialysis brought a Sherman Act claim against a competitor, the plaintiff did not...

Verdicts & Settlements February 5, 2007: MoDOT's actions created unsafe snow ramp.
February 5, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Maniscalco $250,000 award An arbitration panel awarded $250,000 to a man injured when the pickup truck in which he was riding flew over a guardrail. The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission was found to be...

Verdicts & Settlements February 5, 2007: Mo. patient wins verdict over botched gall bladder surgery.(Gaines v. Bush)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale $101,300 verdict A patient won $101,300 in his Scott County case over a botched gall bladder removal surgery. His attorney says it represents the county's first plaintiff's verdict in a medical malpractice case in...

Verdicts & Settlements February 5, 2007: Mo. sheriffs win defense verdicts in civil rights case.(Highfill, et al. v. Ebker, et al.)
February 5, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale Defense verdict A former Gasconade County sheriff and deputy sheriff have won defendants' verdicts in an Osage County civil rights case alleging unlawful arrest and excessive use of force. The arrest stemmed...

Detainees need legal access protections.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Karen J. Mathis On behalf of the American Bar Association, this letter is sent in strong support of the Petition for Rule-Making to Promulgate Regulations Governing Detention Standards for Immigration Detainees, submitted by...

Supreme Court selects St. Louis attorney as new chief disciplinary counsel.(Alan D. Pratzel )
February 12, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck The Supreme Court of Missouri has selected St. Louis attorney Alan D. Pratzel to serve as the state's chief disciplinary counsel, the court said last week. Pratzel is expected to begin working in his new position...

Sandra Day O'Connor will hear Missouri voting discrimination case.(Brief article)
February 12, 2007... Byline: Donna Walter An 8th Circuit panel, including former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, will hear a challenge to Missouri's voting law today. In Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services et al. v. Robin Carnahan,...

Study: fewer blacks attending Missouri's law schools.(Brief article)
February 12, 2007... Byline: Donna Walter, Missouri Lawyers Media Most Missouri law schools have admitted fewer African-American law students in recent years and need to do more to recruit and retain them, the Mound City Bar Association concluded in a new...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: February 12, 2007.(Husch and Eppenberger L.L.C.'s donations)(St. Louis Bar Foundation)(Richard Martin, Blackwell Sanders)
February 12, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Husch & Eppenberger is the first law firm to commit funds to the St. Louis Bar Foundation's "Strengthening the Foundation of Justice" fundraising campaign. The Firm donated $10,000 to the Bar...

Bills would alter Missouri's 187-year-old retrospective clause.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck The Missouri Constitution has held since 1820 that laws can't be applied retroactively, but a recent Missouri Supreme Court decision is making some legislators rethink that proposition. Last summer, the court upset...

A.G. Edwards to face trial over handling of Saigh trust.(A.G. Edwards Trust Co., Rose Saigh)
February 12, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole A.G. Edwards Trust Co. will be heading back to St. Louis County Circuit Court over the company's approval of $1.3 million in renovations to nonagenarian Rose Saigh's home, but it won't face a claim of conspiracy. ...

GM prevails in product liability case.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Anne C. Vitale General Motors Corp. has won a defendant's verdict in a St. Louis City product liability case arising from a fiery car crash that killed a 16-year-old girl. The girl's mother claimed that the 2000 Chevrolet...

Law professor: Immigration bill on solid ground.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck An immigration bill introduced in the Missouri Legislature is on solid legal ground, says a prominent University of Missouri-Kansas City law professor, even though one major provision has yet to be tested in state...

You only thought you knew law firm Brown & Crouppen.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole St. Louis television audiences are familiar with the Brown & Crouppen advertisements. Terry Crouppen - the soft spoken, bearded attorney with glasses - can be seen touting his firm's diverse plaintiffs' practice as...

Courts played hot potato with case.(appeals)
February 12, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Richard M. Paul III of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy handles a fair number of appeals, but for some reason he just wasn't having any luck with the most basic of appellate duties. "I'd file my brief, and the court of...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: February 12, 2007.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Judgments - Finality - Real Property Where property owners claimed subdivision trustees lacked authority to erect fences and gates and sought a declaratory judgment and an...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: February 12, 2007.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Effectiveness Of Counsel - Jury Instruction - Parole Eligibility Where a criminal defendant convicted of murder argued his lawyer was ineffective for failing to prepare a jury...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: February 12, 2007.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Municipal Annexation - Quo Warranto - Verification (1) Where two municipalities wanted to annex property located between the cities, the trial court had jurisdiction to consider the petition...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: February 12, 2007.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Collective Bargaining Agreement - Renewal - Withdrawal Even though a company notified a union that it would withdraw from a collective bargaining agreement upon its expiration, the...

Verdicts & Settlements February 12, 2007: Court orders money back into trust.(Lanagan v. Rorke)(Case overview)
February 12, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale $365,000 judgment The Greene County Circuit Court ordered that $364,771 be returned to a trust in response to a breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit filed by the remainder beneficiaries. Plaintiffs claimed that their...

Verdicts & Settlements February 12, 2007: Bad faith case settles for $7 million.(Case overview)
February 12, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale $7 million settlement The owner of a window washing company settled a Jackson County bad faith lawsuit against his liability insurance carrier for $7 million. He claimed he was exposed to an excess judgment when the...

Verdicts & Settlements February 12, 2007: Patient settles for $2.3 million.(Case overview)
February 12, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale $2.3 million settlement A woman and her husband reached a $2.3 million settlement in their medical malpractice case against a surgeon over a botched bowel surgery. The plaintiffs also asserted negligence claims...

Verdicts & Settlements February 12, 2007: Dollar Tree settles patent infringement case.(Case overview)
February 12, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale $375,000 settlement The holder of a patent for an instructional baseball pitching device reached a settlement in his patent infringement case against Dollar Tree Stores Inc. filed in U.S. District Court for the...

Commentary: What lawyers need to know about appraisers.(Column)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Boyd Harris I have heard many times that good communication is a strong factor in any relationship. I believe this applies in business relationships as well as personal. This was brought to light a few weeks ago as I visited with...

Kansas City lawyer to lead national aviation group.(Gary C. Robb elected to Chair of the Aviation Law Section of the American Association for Justice)(Brief article)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Gary C. Robb has been elected Chair of the Aviation Law Section of the American Association for Justice. Robb is a partner with the Kansas City personal injury law firm of Robb & Robb. The Aviation...

Minority clerkship program launches in Kansas City.(Brief article)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Nine law firms may hire summer associates from a minority summer clerkship program being launched this year by the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. A committee made up of hiring partners from the firms met...

Variety of events to mark Dred Scott sesquicentennial.(Dred Scott v. Sandford 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857))
February 19, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff This year marks the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford, and a wide variety of events will mark the historic occasion. From the Old Courthouse to Washington...

Final Twist: Suit settled for $5 million in favor of St. Louis Blues hockey player.(Tony Twist)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Donna Walter After nine years of litigation and jury verdicts of $24.5 million and $15 million, former St. Louis Blues hockey player Tony Twist has settled his right of publicity claim against Todd McFarlane Productions Inc. for $5...

Missouri Lawyers In the News: February 19, 2007.
February 19, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Missouri/Southern Illinois Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) announced the members of the organization's 2007 Executive Committee. President: Mike Pitzer, Rabbitt, Pitzer &...

Makers of Twinkies' bankruptcy filling coffers of Kansas City law firm.
February 19, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole As the Solutia Inc. bankruptcy case on the other side of the state has been steadily pumping money into law firms' coffers, the bankruptcy of Kansas City-based Interstate Bakeries Corp. has been doing the same for...

Missouri appeals court rules state payment to foster parents is not income.
February 19, 2007... Byline: Joy Simmons Payments from the state for foster care may not be considered for child support or maintenance purposes, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District held in a case of first impression. The court made the opposite...

Missouri appeals court upholds sentence for non-biological father.(Case overview)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck The state called it a simple legal decision with ample caselaw supporting it. But a dissenting opinion says a man should not have been jailed for failing to pay child support without a court's determination that the...

Protectors of the non-partisan court plan.(Missouri Institute for Justice)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Geri L. Dreiling One way to measure the degree of political hostility aimed at the Missouri judiciary is to look at the activity of the Missouri Institute for Justice. The Kansas City-based organization, whose roots date back to...

St. Louis-based Bryan Cave sees Far East as gateway to growth.
February 19, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Don Lents' office window doesn't look down at the St. Louis Arch, although it does appear to. "It's a trick of perspective," Lents said. The Arch actually tops out a few feet above the Metropolitan Square building,...

Missouri senate may kill second injury fund.
February 19, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck In the wake of a controversial Missouri Supreme Court decision last month, state legislators want to clarify a provision of workers' compensation law. Along the way, they just might dismantle the state's entire second...

Verdict & Settlements February 19, 2007: Claim settles for $20M against electric company.(Adriana Willis, Individually and as Conservator of the Estate of Brian C. Willis v. Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Edward Willis d/b/a M&M Seamless Guttering)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Anne C. Vitale The Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative has agreed to a guaranteed $20.7 million settlement with a gutter repairman who made contact with a power line, leaving him severely brain-damaged. The structured settlement,...

Liquidators want billions from Goldman Sachs.(The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Fresh off a $95 million settlement with Morgan Stanley, the liquidators of General American are adding Goldman Sachs to their list of defendants. The liquidators filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday, Feb. 13, seeking...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: February 19, 2007.(State v. Newton )
February 19, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law HIV Exposure - Jury Instruction - Constitutionality Where a jury found an HIV-positive defendant guilty of two counts of exposing others to the virus without their knowledge or...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: February 19, 2007.(State of California ex rel. Phyllis Moore v. Shepard )
February 19, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Res Judicata - Related Issues - Child Support Where a father was the target of an action for the reimbursement of public funds from the state of California used for the support...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: February 19, 2007.(Brehe v. Department of Elementary & Secondary Education)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Teacher Discipline - 'Moral Turpitude' - Second-Degree Child Endangerment Where a teacher pleaded guilty to second-degree child endangerment for leaving her three children in a...

Missouri Supreme Court Decisions: February 19, 2007.
February 19, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Probate Sexually Violent Predator - 'Mental Abnormality' - Expert Testimony (1) Where the constitutionality of Missouri's civil commitment statute was challenged by a man alleged to be a...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: February 19, 2007.(Buser v. Raymond, et al.)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Physician Discipline - Absentee Judge - Absolute Immunity Where a doctor claimed the state board violated his due process rights by using an absentee judge during a disciplinary...

Verdicts & Settlements February 19, 2007: Injured customer shares blame in trip-and-fall case.(Ward v. Hardy's Truck and Auto Parts Inc.)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale $222,000 verdict. $160,000 when adjusted for allocation of fault A customer received a $222,000 verdict in her Greene County premises liability case against a truck and auto parts store. The customer, who was...

Verdicts & Settlements February 19, 2007: Insurance company prevails in case seeking $6 million.(Cedar Hill Hardware and Construction Supply, Inc. v. Insurance Corporation of Hannover)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Anne Vitale Defense Verdict An insurance company has won a defendant's verdict in a U.S. District Court case alleging breach of insurance contract and vexatious refusal to pay an insurance claim, and seeking more than $6...

Verdicts & Settlements February 19, 2007: Jury finds for defense in deadly head-injury case.(J.D. Lawrence v. Narin Arunakul, M.D. and Skaggs Community Hospital Association)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Defense verdict A jury deliberated 15 minutes before finding that a southern Missouri hospital and one of its doctors weren't negligent in failing to order a CT scan for a man who died after an injury sustained...

Verdicts & Settlements February 19, 2007: Airbag failure leads to head injuries.(Maechling v. General Motors)
February 19, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Confidential settlement A lawyer hopes a confidential settlement in favor of her client will nudge car companies to change the design of airbags. On Dec. 22, 2004, plaintiff Mathew Maechling was driving his 2003...

Take a deep breath: More lawyers embracing meditation.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Associated Press staff Lawyers are usually known for their analytical brains, persuasive prowess and take-no-prisoners argumentative skills. Zen-like tranquility doesn't typically come to mind. A growing number of law schools,...

Bryan Cave's strategies names Democratic president.(Broderick Johnson joins Bryan Cave Strategies)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Bryan Cave's lobbying arm added two more Democrats, tapping one of them as the new president of Bryan Cave Strategies. Former Clinton administration staffer Broderick Johnson is the new president of Bryan Cave...

Missouri Supreme Court Judge touts need for early eye tests.(Richard Teitelman )
February 26, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck The only early screening for eye problems that Missouri Supreme Court Judge Richard Teitelman ever got was his first-ever report card. "This is the first time anyone noticed or even thought about me having bad...

Missouri law firms announce personnel changes and promotions.(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Daniel J. Lett has been elected 2007 president of the St. Louis chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). Lett is general counsel for Bunzl USA, Inc. Also elected for 2007 were Vice...

Justices seek meaning of 'control' in St. Louis University case.(Saint Louis University v. Masonic Temple Association of St. Louis)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Saint Louis University is clearly guided by the ideals and principles of the Society of Jesus that has been affiliated with it since 1829. But is it controlled by that creed? That's another question. Actually, it...

Official English bill unlikely to affect Missouri courts.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck Under a proposal in the Missouri House, the state would require the English language to be used in all official proceedings. But its sponsor and even national English-language advocates say courts need not fear that...

St. Louis attorney despised by the South and abolitionists alike.(Montgomery Blair)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Richard Jackoway St. Louis attorney Montgomery Blair, Dred Scott's advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court, became a man despised by the South and abolitionists alike. Dred Scott needed a lawyer, again. His freedom suit was...

Missouri House passes resolution that could strip them of jurisdiction.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck It's been somewhat of a rough month for the Missouri judiciary. Last week, the Missouri House passed a resolution that the courts say would strip them of some jurisdiction. The vote came on the heels of comments by...

Lawyers of St. Louis hockey Blues hockey player's firecracker lawsuit fight over who gets paid what.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole Tony Twist's firecracker of a lawsuit against Todd McFarlane's comic book-based business may have fizzled out with a settlement in an Arizona bankruptcy court early this month, but there's still some shouting left to...

U.S. Supreme Court decides cases based on 13th and 14th amendments.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Bridget Heos The U.S. Supreme Court said in 1857 that Dred Scott was not a citizen of this country, but property. Even if he traveled into territories where Congress declared slavery illegal, he was not free. And if he were free,...

Nine things you may not know about Scott v. Sandford.(Brief article)(Case overview)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff * While the Scotts' case wound through state courts, their attorneys fees and court costs were paid by the family of Dred Scott's first slave owner, Peter Blow. * The Scotts case took nearly 11...

McDonald's case seeks ruling under now-defunct law.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck In April 2005, plaintiffs alleging they suffered food poisoning in two rural Missouri counties filed their cases in Jackson County, on the theory that the restaurants where they ate have a lot of franchises there. Is...

Missouri Court of Appeals rules open records law requires administrative agencies to take action.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Joy Simmons Missouri's open records law requires administrative agencies to take action if they wish to close records to the public, even if the records meet one of the exceptions to the law, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: February 26, 2007.(State v. Agnew )(Brief article)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Kidnapping - 'Hostage' - Sufficiency Of Evidence Where a defendant held a woman captive in her apartment and threatened to kill her if his conditions were not met, sufficient...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: February 26, 2007.(Pattie v. French Quarter Resorts)(Jerry Bennett Masonry Contractor, Inc. v. Crossland Construction Co., Inc.)(Phillips v. State )
February 26, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Inadequate Brief - Pro Se Appellant - Employment Security Where the brief of a pro se appellant in an unemployment compensation dispute did not contain a table of cases, a...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: February 26, 2007.(Department of Social Services v. Little Hills Healthcare)(Missouri Gas Energy v. Public Service Commission)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Rulemaking - Medicaid Patient Days - Jurisdiction Where the Administrative Hearing Commission changed a decision of the Division of Medical Services granting an increase in the...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: February 26, 2007.(Davies v. Johanns )
February 26, 2007... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Farm Assessment - Appreciation - FFA Where farmers disputed an assessment of their property by the Farm Service Agency for purposes of a debt restructuring agreement, the...

Treatise a beacon in complex world of business litigation in federal courts.('Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, 2nd ed.)
February 26, 2007... Byline: John C. Dods If law books were marketed as consumer products are, then "New, bigger, and improved" could well be used to describe the second edition of "Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, " the new eight-volume...

Verdicts and Settlements February 26, 2007: Missouri crash yields limited settlement.(Bettie Welch, Stacy Hadley, Matthew Hadley and Ashley Thorpe v. Oran Klein and Transportech)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Scott Lauck $1,496,500 settlement A three-vehicle traffic crash netted a settlement of nearly $1.5 million, but had the insurance limits been higher the injured parties could have gotten enough to cover their ongoing...

Verdicts and Settlements February 26, 2007: RightChoice settles Missouri whistleblower case.(U.S. ex rel. Ronald Ekstrand v. Wellpoint Health Networks Inc.)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Heather Cole $975,000 settlement A whistleblower lawsuit against a Wellpoint Inc. unit for alleged overcharging for federal employees' health care benefits settled for $975,000 after a year of talks and a lengthy investigation....

Verdicts and Settlements February 26, 2007: Mo. tractor accident settles for insurance policy limits.(Susan Repovich vs. Henry Peek)
February 26, 2007... Byline: Charles Emerick $300,000 settlement A Winfield woman whose husband died while trying to help a neighbor move his tractor settled her wrongful death case for $300,000. Susan Repovich's husband, Larry, died in May 2003 while...