Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from June 2003

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from June 2003

Mo. Court of Appeals' Eastern District Rules Settlement Of Med-Mal Case Enforceable Against MIGA.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Jones A med-mal settlement agreed to by a defense attorney was enforceable even after the claims adjuster reneged on the agreement on the grounds that the attorney had no authority to settle, the Missouri Court of...

Tort Reform, Nursing Home Bills Move On To Missouri Governor.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Anne C. Vitale While budget battles dominated the headlines during much of the General Assembly's 2003 session, which ended May 16, several bills sent to Gov. Bob Holden are certain to have an impact on the practice of law in...

Missouri Supreme Court Rules Attorney's Fee Had Priority Over State Claim.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Jones A lawyer's contingent fee in a civil judgment for a prisoner had priority over the state's claim for reimbursement of incarceration expenses, the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled in a case of first impression. ...

Interview with Missouri Senior Judge Byron Kinder.(Interview)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff In 2002, after 30 years on the bench, Judge Kinder, facing mandatory retirement this year, decided not to run again. He stepped down at the end of 2002, and was given senior judge status by the Supreme...

Verdicts & Settlements June 2, 2003: Owner of mine sues stockholders after they shut down the mine.(Brief article)
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.5 Million Verdict An owner of a mining operation sued the other stockholders after they shut down the mine. Marvin Tipton and Ed Kelley owned Mill Creek Gravel Inc., which was formed in...

Missouri Lawyers In The News: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Lee's Summit firm of Dodig, Arbuckle & Carey announced that A. Scott DeVouton has joined the firm as a member. DeVouton is a graduate of Marquette University and the University of Missouri-...

Missouri Legal Community Obituaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff William A. Stolar William Stolar, a longtime attorney and former St. Louis Alderman, died on May 14 at the age of 95. After receiving his law degree from Washington University in 1935, Stolar...

Verdicts & Settlements June 2, 2003: Couple Died Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning On Boat.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $25.69 Million Verdict The family of a Joplin couple who died of carbon monoxide poisoning on their houseboat sued the manufacturer of a generator. Randolph and Lois Anderson were vacationing...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Incarceration Reimbursement Act - Attorney's Fees - Priority Where an inmate who sued the police board for violation of the state's criminal activity forfeiture act was awarded...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Motion to Assume - Real Property - Denial Where debtor had received an offer to purchase its golf course property and the bankruptcy court determined that no default existed under...

10 Years Ago In Missouri Lawyers Weekly: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Circumstantial Evidence Rule Discarded The Missouri Supreme Court threw out the circumstantial evidence rule when it affirmed a defendant's convictions for murder, robbery and armed criminal action...

Verdicts & Settlements June 2, 2003: Doctor Who Operated On Wrong Toe To Pay $75K.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Kelly Kress How much is a big toe worth? That was the question facing Deborah Dodge, a Springfield attorney for a man who went in for surgery on his left big toe, only to have the doctor operate on the right one. The parties...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Evidence - Sufficiency - Methamphetamine Manufacture (1) Where a duffel bag full of methamphetamine ingredients and manufacturing equipment was found in defendant's residence along...

Verdicts & Settlements June 2, 2003: Doctor Operated On Wrong Toe.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $75,000 Settlement A Kimberling City man sued his surgeon and a hospital after the surgeon operated on the wrong toe. In February 2000, Harold Myers, 68, was scheduled for surgery on his left...

Verdicts & Settlements June 2, 2003: Tractor-Trailer Hit Plaintiff Head-On.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $400,000 Settlement A Shannon County man who was hit head-on by a truck while he was on the shoulder of a highway sued the truck driver. Brian Gillingham was on his way home from the night...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Jurisdiction - Receivers - Nursing Home Where a therapy provider sued a nursing home company for breach of contract and quantum meruit and the Cole County trial court appointed...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Rule 84.04 - Brief - Inadequate Where the points relied on in the brief of an appellant in a civil case failed to set forth the legal reasons for her claims of error and the...

Verdicts & Settlements June 2, 2003: 72-Year-Old Fell In Casino.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendant's Judgment A 72-year-old woman sued St. Jo Frontier Casino after she slipped and fell while on the riverboat. Anna Lou Webster, a caterer, was delivering a wedding cake to the St....

Sixteenth Circuit Judicial Nominees: June 9, 2003.(Brief article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff On June 3, the Sixteenth Circuit Judicial Commission nominated a panel of three persons to fill the position of Circuit Judge of the Sixteenth Circuit in Jackson County. The vacancy was created by the...

University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Wins National Competition.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law is the 2003 national champion of the American Bar Association Law School Division Client Counseling Competition. The members of Mizzou's winning team...

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis wants Martial Arts In The Courtroom.(Brief article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Calling all stressed-out litigators! The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis wants to help you relax, maintain stamina through lengthy trials and avoid litigation burnout. Beginning...

History Is Made: First African-American Chief Justice Of The Missouri Supreme Court.(Brief article)
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff On May 21, the Missouri Supreme Court made history by electing Judge Ronnie L. White the first African American Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. White will succeed Chief Justice Stephen...

More Attorneys In Missouri Turning To 'Divorce Planners'.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Anne C. Vitale Missouri family lawyers are increasingly turning to certified divorce planners to help untangle complicated financial issues in dissolution cases, observers say. CDPs, licensed by a Michigan-based institute, are...

Missouri Court of Appeals' Eastern District Rules No Comp Subrogation In Legal-Mal Lawsuit.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Anne C. Vitale Where a lawyer for an employee injured in a car accident missed the statute of limitations for a personal injury lawsuit against the other driver, the insurance company that paid workers' compensation benefits to the...

Missouri Lawyers In The News: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Thomas Polcyn was elected chair of the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. Polcyn practices Intellectual Property and Information Technology law at...

Mo. Court of Appeals' Western District Rules Statute Of Frauds Didn't Apply In Case Against Bank.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Jones A property owner who claimed his bank duped him into stopping payments on a promissory note as part of a "friendly foreclosure" -- and then reneged on the deal by selling the property out from under him -- could...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Automatic Stay - Notice Of Appeal - Rehabilitation Where a Chapter 11 debtor sought to rehabilitate a notice of appeal that it filed in state court after petitioning for bankruptcy,...

10 Years Ago In Missouri Lawyers Weekly: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff 'Contention' Interrogatories Test Eased Whether a plaintiff must answer a so-called "contention" interrogatory is a matter within the trial court's discretion and not the subject of a "hard and...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Banks and Banking Promissory Note - Installment Note - Statute of Limitations Where a note signed by a borrower who later defaulted specified a time of payment and did not state that it was...

Tort Victim Fund Claimants In Missouri To Get 9 Cents On The Dollar.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Kelly Kress Parties who have filed claims on the Tort Victims Compensation Fund will get only 9 cents on the dollar, according to Fund administrators. Established in 1987 to aid injured people unable to collect civil judgments...

Verdicts & Settlements June 9, 2003: Woman Had Hernia After Car Accident.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendant's Verdict A St. Louis County woman sued over abdominal injuries she claimed to have suffered in a rear-end accident. In March 1997 Cynthia Sklebar was rear-ended by Megan Gibson on...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Order of Protection - Expiration - Mootness Where a woman obtained a full order of protection against her neighbor under the adult abuse act and the order expired without...

Verdicts & Settlements June 9, 2003: Wife, Sister Fought Over Life Insurance.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $154,976 Settlement Metropolitan Life Insurance Company filed a declaratory judgment suit after two women both claimed to be the sole beneficiary of a Springfield man who died in an automobile...

Verdicts & Settlements June 9, 2003: Man Died In Multi-Vehicle Accident.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendant's Verdict The family of a Ray County man who was killed in a multiple vehicle accident sued the driver and owner of a tractor-trailer for wrongful death. On Nov. 7, 1999 a field near...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Rule 84.04 - Brief - Inadequate Where an appellant in a civil case filed a pro se petition for a writ of prohibition without complying with any of the requirements of Rule...

Verdicts & Settlements June 9, 2003: Flying Steel Hit Worker In Head.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $204,000 Settlement An employee who was injured when a piece of steel he was working on broke and hit him in the head sued the steel manufacturer and supplier. In 1996 Randy Richardson was...

Verdicts & Settlements June 9, 2003: Woman Sues Football Star For Assault.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendant's Verdict A Houston, Texas woman sued St. Louis Rams football star Marshall Faulk, the father of her three children, for $3 million, claiming he assaulted her. Helen Dunne and Faulk...

Eye Doctor Prevails In Detached Retina Case In St. Louis.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A 5-year-old boy who suffered a detached retina after cataract surgery has lost his St. Louis City medical malpractice case. The defendants, including the eye doctor and the hospital where the surgery was...

Missouri Court of Appeals' Western District Rules Withdrawing Lawyers Get Entire $12M Fee In Case.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Anne C. Vitale >Where lawyers in a firm agreed that "law business" could be "withdrawn" by a departing attorney, an attorney's withdrawal of a contingent case that eventually resulted in a $12 million fee eliminated the other...

St. Louis Attorney Herbert B. Roberts dies at 83.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Herbert Barton Roberts, a St. Louis patent attorney, died on June 7, at the age of 83. After graduating from the Illinois State University in 1942, Roberts went to work as a chemist on the...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Mootness - Order of Protection - Expiration Where an order of protection issued against an appellant expired during the pendency of his appeal and appellant did not respond to a...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Law Rule 29.15 Motion - Videotape Where a defendant convicted of statutory rape stated on videotape that he had not requested an attorney and was trying to cooperate fully but later...

Meet St. Louis Attorney Robert Samuels.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Born: Jan. 11, 1940 in St. Louis Residence: St. Louis Education: St. Louis University School of Law, JD, 1988; University of Missouri-Columbia, MA, 1971; Washington University, AB, 1963 ...

Radio Ads Promote Tort Bill In Missouri.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Have you heard the radio ads set to ominous music that urge you to protect jobs and health care instead of protecting trial lawyers? These 30-second spots are part of an advertising campaign...

St. Louis Firms Will Merge.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Effective July 1, St. Louis-based law firms Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. and Rosenblum, Goldenhersh, Silverstein & Zafft, P.C. will join forces. The combined firms will practice under the...

Missouri Lawyers In The News: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Jill S. Bollwerk and Daniel T. Ryan announced the formation of Bollwerk & Ryan, LLC. The firm will practice in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, workers' compensation, medical malpractice...

Verdicts & Settlements June 16, 2003: Car Crashed Into Building, Hit Woman.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $75,000 Settlement A St. Louis woman who received a $234,990 judgment against an uninsured driver filed a vexatious refusal suit after her uninsured insurance company refused to pay her claim. ...

Verdicts & Settlements June 16, 2003: Man Died Of CO Poisoning On Boat.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.1 Million Settlement The family of a Joplin man who died from carbon monoxide poisoning on a boat sued the owners of the boat, the manufacturer of a gas generator, a marina that performed...

Verdicts & Settlements June 16, 2003: Air Bag Hit Car Seat.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.2 Million Settlement An infant from Kirksville sued her grandfather for injuries she suffered when the air bag in his pickup truck deployed and struck her car seat. On July 21, 2001 Alan...

Verdicts & Settlements June 16, 2003: Live Wire Electrocuted Worker.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $6.5 Million Settlement The family of an electrical lineman who was electrocuted while installing a new transformer on a utility pole sued an equipment manufacturer for products liability. ...

Missouri Court of Appeals' Western District Rules Dad's Visits Can't Be Cut Back Because Of Sports.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Jones Where a trial court ordered that a father would have to miss his scheduled visitation time if it conflicted with his son's sports activities, this was an improper "restriction" of his visitation, the Missouri Court...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Judgment - Finality - Alternative Theories Where a subcontractor sued a contractor for unjust enrichment and breach of contract and the trial court granted summary judgment...

10 Years Ago In Missouri Lawyers Weekly: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Overhaul Of Workers' Comp Passed A major revision of Missouri's workers' compensation law has been passed by the General Assembly and is now awaiting action by the governor. Senate Bill No. 251,...

Splitting Fee In Contingent Case Raises Ethical Issues In Opinion From Mo. Legal Ethics Counsel.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Kelly Kress A lawyer who takes over a personal injury case after the client has fired the original attorney faces several important issues in connection with collecting a fee, a recent advisory opinion issued by the Legal Ethics...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative River Management - Corps Of Engineers (1) Where the district courts of North Dakota and South Dakota enjoined the Corps of Engineers from lowering the level of reservoirs in...

Missouri Supreme Court Rules Worker Gets Attorney Fees For Frivolous Defense.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Anne C. Vitale An employer that refused to pay for treatment of a worker's injury for several years and later raised an unreasonable defense in her workers' compensation case must pay her attorneys' fees, the Missouri Supreme Court...

Ford Sued Over Fiery Crash In Jackson County.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff On June 17 J. Kent Emison filed a lawsuit in Jackson County against Ford Motor Co., claiming that a faulty design caused Missouri State Trooper Mike Newton's Crown Victoria police car to burst into...

'Air Rage' Over Arizona.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff On June 12 St. Louis attorney Howard Shalowitz won a $2 million judgment in Arizona federal court on behalf of his client, a TWA employee who was attacked by a passenger during a cross-country flight....

Missouri Legal Ethics Counsel Issues Opinions: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Informal advisory opinions are issued by the Legal Ethics Counsel under Rule 5.30. The Legal Ethics Counsel only issues opinions to attorneys for their own guidance involving an existing set of facts....

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: June 23,2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Administrative 'Trade' Claims - Reorganization Plan - Negligence Action Where dairy farmers sued a feed company for negligence and did not file a claim with the bankruptcy court...

10 Years Ago In Missouri Lawyers Weekly: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff 'Pretend' Wife, Carrier Have Standing "Interested persons" under Sect. 472.010(15) RSMo should be given a broad interpretation, the Missouri Court of Appeals' Eastern District ruled in two...

Commentary: Dealing With Lawyer Impairment Costly For Colleagues And Clients As Well.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Emily Eichenhorn Experts opine that lawyers suffer from alcoholism, chemical dependency, depression and other psychological problems at higher rates than the general population. Various reasons are offered for this phenomenon,...

Mo. Supreme Court Abolishes Alienation Of Affection Tort.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Jones A woman who was divorced after her husband had an affair could not sue his lover for alienation of affection, the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled. In reversing a $75,000 verdict, the court abolished the tort....

Boone County Switches To Salaried GAL Program.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Anne C. Vitale Reflecting a growing trend across the state, the Boone County family court will begin using part-time, salaried guardians ad litem instead of GALs appointed on a case-by-case basis. The court will retain 16...

Mo. Court of Appeals' Southern District Rules Defense Counsel Worked For Carrier, Jury Told.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Jones The plaintiff in an auto accident case could tell the jury in voir dire that the defendant was being represented by an in-house attorney employed by the defendant's insurance company, the Missouri Court of Appeals'...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Jury Trial - Denial - 'Equitable Clean- Up' Doctrine Where the trial court in a breach of contract case involving legal and equitable claims found that appellant was not entitled...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Domestic Relations Child Support - Appeal - Transcript - Failure to File Where a father who was appealing the trial court's denial of his motion to modify child support failed to file a...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Man Killed In Railroad Crossing Accident.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $500,000 Settlement The wife of a Moniteau County man sued Union Pacific Railroad and Amtrack after her husband was killed by an Amtrak train. Union Pacific was a defendant because it owned the...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Plaintiff's Car Broadsided.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $700,000 Settlement After suffering facial injuries in an automobile accident that required multiple surgeries, a Douglas County woman sued the driver who broadsided her car. Kathy Stephens,...

Missouri Lawyers In The News: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff St. Louis firm Lashly & Baer announced the addition of two new associates, Chad M. Moore and Susan B. Walker. Moore, who holds a J.D. and M.H.A. from St. Louis University and a B.A. from Truman State...

Lawyers Weekly Announces New Tool For Attracting Clients To Law Firm Websites.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Lawyers Weekly is announcing the launch of a new product that law firms will use to attract clients to their websites: Legal NewsLinks. The new Legal NewsLinks Service automatically sends...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Judgments - Finality - Nunc Pro Tunc Where (1) the trial court in a dissolution of marriage case entered a first amended judgment sua sponte and did not give the parties...

Missouri Supreme Court Case Summaries: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Discipline - Out- Of-State Misconduct - Probation Where an attorney who had received two admonitions for violations of the rules of professional conduct in Kansas and 11 admonitions...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: MoDOT Worker's Truck Hit By Semi.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $150,000 Settlement A Department of Transportation worker sued a tractor trailer driver who rear-ended the dump truck she was driving. On June 3, 1999, Teresa Powers, 41, was driving east on...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Heart Medication Caused Lung Condition.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defendant's Verdict A heart patient sued Metro Heart Health for lack of informed consent after he developed a rare lung condition caused by his medication, Amiodarone. Joe Scott, 67, sought...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Clamp Left In Abdomen After Caesarean.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $2,768,826 Verdict A Jackson County woman sued her medical providers after a clamp was discovered in her abdomen nine years after a Caesarean section. In 1991 Larice Smith, 24 years old at the...

Mo. Supreme Court Rules 'Equitable Adoption' Not Proved In Probate Case.(Missouri )
June 30, 2003... Byline: Kenneth C. Jones Even though a man treated the plaintiff as his daughter for decades after marrying her mother and had no other children, she had no claim on his property after he died intestate, the Missouri Court of Appeals'...

St. Louis Attorney Begins Contingency Commercial Practice.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Anthony Simon, a St. Louis intellectual property attorney specializing in patent, copyright and trademark litigation, left Thompson Coburn earlier this month to begin an innovative contingency-fee...

Missouri Lawyers In The News: June 30, 2003.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Obetz announced that Brett T. Votava joined the firm as an associate. Votava graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and the University of...

BOCA Violation Results In Negligence Per Se Verdict In St. Louis.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Kelly Kress A recent $433,000 verdict in a premises liability lawsuit shows the value of using a building code violation to make a case for negligence per se, according to attorneys. Alan Clanton was at a St. Louis City...

Verdicts & Settlements June 30, 2003: Dodge Omni Crushed In Rear-Ender.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Confidental Settlement A St. Louis woman who was paralyzed when her Dodge Omni was crushed in a rear-end collision sued DaimlerChrysler Corp. for products liabilty. Karen Weir was on her way...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 30, 2003.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Rule 84.04 - Authority - Failure To Cite Where an appellant in a dispute over water system rights failed to cite any authority in support of its points on appeal, the trial...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: June 30, 2003.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Nursing Home Administrator - License Discipline - EDL Where the Division of Aging reversed a proposal to add a nursing home administrator to the Employment Disqualification List,...

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: June 30,2003.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Transfers - Fraudulent - Recovery - Attorney's Fees (1) Even though debtors claimed the trustee was barred from bringing a Section 544(b) avoidance action because he was barred by...