Missouri Lawyers Weekly articles from May 2006

Missouri Lawyers Weekly archives from May 2006

IP issues for companies to consider regarding internet blogs.(intellectual property)
May 1, 2006... Byline: John E. Ottaviani Your new client calls with a question. She has heard about other business owners who are operating "blogs" and wants to start one for her business. She asks whether there are any legal issues regarding her...

Law Day celebrates the enduring values of America.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Chief Justice Michael A. Wolff Law Day started as a competitive event during the Cold War. In 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower first proclaimed May 1 as Law Day; the date was chosen to contrast our system that embodies the rule of...

A Missouri judge's and patrolman's fishing trip nearly turned tragic.(Greg Kays and Jason Riggs)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff What was meant to be a relaxing few days of fishing near the Arctic Circle last July nearly turned tragic for a Missouri judge, highway patrolman and their wilderness guide. But luckily, this "heckuva...

Missouri law firms announce personnel and management changes.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Gary Sarachan, a principal in the law firm of Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan P.C., has been appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court to The Disciplinary Committee for Region X. Sarachan was also...

St. Louis's graduates of Washington University law school have highest overall pass rate.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Anne C. Vitale Graduates of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis had the highest overall pass rate of the four Missouri law schools on the February 2006 bar exam, with 83.33 percent passing. Saint Louis University...

Missouri Lawyers Weekly finds a number of extremely effective ways to get law firm leaders attention.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole In the course of gathering the information for the Money 10 survey, Missouri Lawyers Weekly found a number of extremely effective ways to get the attention of law firm leaders. For some, it required only asking for...

St. Louis-based Lewis Rice & Fingersh recognized as Missouri's most profitable law firm in 2005.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole With 776 lawyers, St. Louis-based Bryan Cave dwarfed all state competitors in headcount, gross revenues and profits. But that still didn't make it Missouri's most profitable big law firm in 2005. That distinction...

Missouri judges debate over not having a raise in nearly six years.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Tammy Worth Missouri judges haven't gotten a raise in nearly six years, and the governor, legislators and bar leaders are now publicly squabbling over the issue - amid worries that judgeships in the state will soon be so...

Perchlorate litigation on the rise across the country.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Dick Dahl The chemical compound perchlorate has already generated plenty of heat as a key ingredient in rocket fuel. But now it's generating heat of a different kind. Over the last few years, scientists, policy-makers and...

Missouri Court of Appeals case summaries: May 1, 2006.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Finality Of Judgment - Contempt Order - Enforcement Where an ex-husband who was the subject of a contempt order appealed the order, no warrant was issue so the order was not...

Missouri Court of Appeals case summaries: May 1, 2006.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Motion To Compel - Parties To Contract - Wrongful Death Where plaintiffs sued a nursing home for wrongful death and the defendant requested arbitration pursuant to its contract with...

Missouri Court of Appeals case summaries: May 1, 2006.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Existence Of Contract - Essential Terms - Quantum Meruit (1) Where homeowners and a construction company stated in the contract for the construction of a new home that the price was...

Missouri Supreme Court case summaries: May 1, 2006.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Out- Of-State Attorney - Admission To Practice - Signature Requirement Even though an out-of-state attorney not authorized to practice law in Missouri was the only attorney to sign a...

U.S. Bank Court of Appeals: May 1, 2006.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Counseling Requirement - Failure To Meet - Exigent Circumstances Where individual debtors did not receive credit counseling services and did not show exigent circumstances, the...

United States Court of Appeals case summaries: May 1, 2006.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Remand Order - Finality - Whistleblower Statute Where an employee sued his employer under the Minnesota Occupational Safety and Health Act and a whistleblower statute, an...

St. Louis jury awards call center worker over $114M in employee discrimination suit.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $114,265.22 verdict A federal jury sided with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a disabled call-center worker by taking a stand against workplace discrimination and awarding the young...

Jasper County judge rules in favor of emergency room doctor.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense verdict A directed verdict for the defense cleared a Joplin doctor of medical malpractice allegations in March, but by the end of April the plaintiff's attorney responded by filing a notice...

Missouri jury rules in favor of contractor and designer in house fire suit.(Laiben Construction and Larran Inc.)
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense verdict An insurance company's claim that faulty workmanship led to a house fire failed to ignite favor with a Jefferson County jury. Joe and Matilda Leonard were excited to move into...

Missouri jury favors individual responsibility in medical malpractice case.
May 1, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense verdict A St. Louis jury that deliberated for 2 1/2 hours determined that individual responsibility was more critical than teamwork when it found for the defendant in a medical malpractice...

Commentary: Physician beware.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Donn H. Herring During the last several years, as reimbursements for professional medical services have declined, physicians have looked for new and different ways of generating additional revenue for their practices. One approach...

"Public Health Emergencies and the Law" conference to be held in St. Louis.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff "Are You Ready? Public Health Emergencies and the Law," a major conference sponsored by The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, The American Bar...

St. Louis law office of Blackwell Sanders launches hospitality practice.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Blackwell Sanders formed a new practice area designed to better serve its hospitality clients. The hospitality group routinely represents hotels, restaurants, casinos, golf resorts, timeshare...

Drug court association in MO honors Supreme Court judge.(Missouri)(Claire McCaskill Award)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff The Missouri Association of Drug Court Professionals honored Supreme Court of Missouri Judge William Ray Price Jr. on Wednesday, April 26, at its annual conference in Osage Beach for his efforts...

Missouri Lawyers in the News: May 8, 2006.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Douglas S. Beck of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Lee Brumitt of Dysart Taylor Lay Cotter & McMonigle and James Swaney, Jr. of Newhouse, Byers and Swaney will receive the 2006 Robert C. Welch Volunteer Attorney...

The race down the legislative stretch in Jefferson City.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole Former inmates cleared by DNA could look forward to checks from Missouri, while the state's public defenders could see an increase in theirs. Two bills tackling the issues of a raise for public defenders and...

Parents settle for $14M over death of daughter, unborn grandchild.(Case overview)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Anne C. Vitale The parents of a pregnant woman who died in a multivehicle accident have settled their Jackson County wrongful death case against three trucking companies for $14,475,000. The settlement included $12 million for the...

Employer concerns grow with increased employee Internet use.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Correy E. Stephenson If you're at work reading this story on the Internet, you may be in trouble. According to Burstek, a company that provides employee Internet management software, 78 percent of all employees access the...

MO Court of Appeals rules company lacks standing to appeal Gaming Commission ruling.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Joy Simmons A casino company and owners of property near a proposed casino site did not have standing to appeal a decision by the Missouri Gaming Commission, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled. At...

State Bar to post attorney discipline records in Missouri online.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Donna Walter Missouri is joining the growing number of states that post online the names of attorneys subjected to discipline. The state Supreme Court decided in April to post the names of those attorneys it disbars, suspends...

Class-actions proceed against nonprofit hospitals.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Emily Umbright A group of class-action lawsuits filed around the country could have lawyers scratching their heads - and nonprofit hospitals burying them in the sand - on whether medical malpractice is out and breach of contract is...

New Jersey case worries employment lawyers.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Correy E. Stephenson Already facing concerns about lost productivity and possible network security risks, employers are reeling from a recent decision by a New Jersey appellate court. In that case, the court reversed summary...

MO Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: May 8, 2006.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Subpoenas - Affirmative Converse Instruction - Discovery (1) Where a trial court in a breach of contract case quashed plaintiff's subpoenas duces tecum as vague, overbroad and...

MO Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: May 8, 2006.(personal injury)(negligence)(Missouri )
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Venue - Corporate Defendant - Foreign Corporation Where a plaintiff who was a resident of Dade County filed a personal injury action in Greene County against a Kansas corporation...

MO Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: May 8, 2006.(medical license revocation, hit- and-run accident)(division of property insurance proceeds)(child support)(Missouri)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Medical License - Revocation - Hit- And-Run Accident Where a doctor entered a guilty plea to a felony after he hit and killed a pedestrian and left the scene of the accident and...

MO Supreme Court Case Summaries: May 8, 2006.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Motion To Compel - Third- Party Beneficiary - Amway Businesses (1) Where Amway-related business claimed several Amway distributors were conspiring to misappropriate their business...

U.S. Court Of Appeals Eighth Circuit Case Summaries: May 8, 2006.
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Arbitration Agreement - Exemption - NASD Where parties signed an agreement to arbitrate "any dispute" according to the rules of the National Association of Securities Dealers, the agreement...

U.S. District Court, Eastern District finds for preachers in negligence, battery lawsuit.(Case overview)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense verdict A pair of preachers accused of creating a physically abusive environment for teenagers in a program for troubled teens prevailed in a battery and negligence suit. However,...

Buchanan County Circuit Court rules for defense in colon cancer makes case.(Eva Todd v. Orlyn Lockard, M.D., and St. Joseph Gastroenterology Inc. )(Case overview)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense verdict A rare form of cancer helped convince a Buchanan County jury that a woman's death was not due to negligence on the part of a St. Joseph doctor. Eva Todd was concerned about a...

Verdicts & Settlements May 8, 2006: Injured boy, mom settle with shirt manufacturer.(Case overview)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $625,000 settlement The design of a child's shirt was at the center of a $625,000 settlement after a boy and his mother suffered burns when the clothing ignited. It was July 15, 2001, when the...

Verdicts & Settlements May 8, 2006: $600K award reached in work zone collision near Rolla.(Case overview)
May 8, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $600,000 settlement A construction worker, struck and injured by a tractor trailer while working in a work zone, settled his negligence claim against the defendant for $600,000. David...

Outsourcing offers a way to maximize practice development investment.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Wayne Davis According to the American Bar Association, practice development, marketing and, yes, "sales" remain the greatest concerns among practicing attorneys in today's marketplace. Why is it that the legal industry continues to...

St. Louis tort defense team moves to another law firm within the city.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Allison Retka, St. Louis Daily Record A three-person toxic tort defense team has made an in-city move to another law firm. The three attorneys, Daniel G. Donahue, C. Raymond Bell and Robert S. Sanderson, formerly of Herzog...

Entry-level hiring at law firms strengthens.(Brief article)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff The market for entry-level associates at law firms has strengthened somewhat, according to the most recent edition of "Patterns & Practices: Measures of Law Firm Hiring, Leverage & Billable Hours," an...

The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis' executive attorney retires this month.(Ken Klein)(Sherry King appointed)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Emily Umbright After a 38-year career spanning stints as lobbyist, limousine driver and bar association director, Ken Klein, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis' executive director for 25 years, eased into retirement...

Missouri attorney promotions and personnel changes.(Brief article)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Husch & Eppenberger L.L.C. expresses great pride in our colleague, Jennifer L. Schwendemann, for being awarded the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis' President's Outstanding Service Award....

Missouri courts discuss whether license fee contractors can be fired based on political ties.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Geri L. Dreiling For more than two decades, the question of whether license fee contractors can be fired based solely on their political ties has been litigated in state and federal court, eventually ending in a Missouri Court of...

Speculation swirls over Missouri attorneys running license fee offices.(Derrick Good)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Geri L. Dreiling When Derrick Good was awarded a contract to run a license fee office in High Ridge last year, he said his goal was to improve customer service. The president of the Jefferson County Republicans hung his picture in...

Missouri worker's comp law gives medical providers a better chance in getting paid in these cases.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Donna Walter Missouri medical providers stand a better chance at getting paid in workers' compensation cases now that the state appeals court has said state law prohibits the Division of Workers' Compensation from rejecting...

Missouri court of appeals rules that termination is allowed in sexual favoritism case.(Tenge v. Phillips Modern Ag. Co.)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole Being fired to placate the boss's wife after flirting with the boss does not constitute sexual discrimination under Title VII. That's the determination the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made in an April 28...

Proposed amendment could increase Missouri judicial salaries.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole Bills addressing salaries for judges and other elected state officials, changes in the whistle-blower law and medical malpractice insurance were clearing final hurdles in the last days of the Missouri General...

Missouri Legal Ethics Counsel said prosecutors have the discretion to amend traffic citations.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Charles Emerick A state ethics committee has determined that municipal prosecutors did not violate the Rules of Professional Conduct when they agreed to defective-equipment pleas in the Kansas City Municipal Division. In a...

New Missouri bankruptcy law raises liability risks for lawyers.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Correy E. Stephenson, Lawyers USA Marc Stern, a solo practitioner in Seattle, Wash., recently had to give a client the debt relief agency disclosures required by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005....

Missouri Court of Appeals case summaries: May 15, 2006.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Administrative Union Agreement - Binding - Section 105.520 Even though a sewer district and a union agreed to a pay grade advancement schedule, agreements between unions and administrative...

Missouri Court of Appeals case summaries: May 15, 2006.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Appellate Practice Record On Appeal - Sufficiency Where plaintiffs brought an action to collect on a bond issued by the county in 1871 and the trial court found the action barred by the...

Missouri Court of Appeals case summaries: May 15, 2006.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Arbitration Designated Arbitrator - Essential Contract Term - Ambiguity Where parties agreed to arbitrate a dispute before a specified arbitrator and the arbitrator was not available, whether...

United States Court of Appeals case summaries: May 15, 2006.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Expungement - Privacy Act Claim - Investigation Where plaintiff sought expungement of and access to his record and damages from several federal agencies under the Privacy Act and...

Missouri asthma patient suffers brain damage after respiratory arrest and receives $950K settlement.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff $950,000 settlement An asthma patient's added symptoms led to brain damage and ultimately a $950,000 medical malpractice settlement. The names of the parties are confidential. In December...

St. Louis jury awards $500K to woman involved in a crash with police officers.(Robinson v. St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners, et al.)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $500,000 verdict After deliberating for only 20 minutes, a unanimous St. Louis jury awarded $500,000 to a woman involved in a crash with police officers and sent an unspoken message for cops to...

St. Louis jury clears family physician and family radiologist of medical malpractice.(Dr. Karl Killion, Dr. Clayton Trimmer)(David Lee Romero et al. v. Clayton Trimmer, D.O. and Karl Killion, D.O.)
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense verdict A St. Louis County jury agreed that a 44-year-old woman's lung cancer and brain tumor were unrelated, and cleared a family physician and a radiologist of medical malpractice claims...

Jury rules in favor of St. Louis car dealership and orders plaintiff to pay attorney fees.
May 15, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Defense verdict:The owner of a sports utility vehicle was ordered to pay attorney fees after the lawsuit he brought against a St. Louis car dealer ended in favor of the defendant. In July 2002, Tam...

Chief Justice warns of looming threats to the judiciary at the Missouri Bar's Annual Spring Meeting.(Michael A. Wolff )
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff (Chief Justice Michael A. Wolff spoke to members of the Bar at The Missouri Bar's Annual Spring Meeting in Jefferson City on May 12, 2006. The following was his speech.) At the close of the...

Disagreement between Missouri house speaker and state senator affects success rate of bills.(Matt Bartle, Rod Jetton)
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff A tiff between state Sen. Matt Bartle and Republican House Speaker Rod Jetton didn't appear to hurt bills coming out of the Judiciary Committee that Bartle chairs, but Bartle's own bills didn't fare so...

Comedy duo brings laughs to Missouri senate floor.(Patrick Dougherty and Chuck Gross)
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff It may not have been as knee-slapping funny as the "Seinfeld" show, but a recent exchange of quips on the last day of session in Jefferson City passed for a stand-up routine in the Missouri Senate. ...

Missouri Gerald Tockman Conference on Talmud & Contemporary law provides twelfth forum.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff The Gerald Tockman Conference on Talmud & Contemporary Law provides a forum for the comparative analysis of legal, ethical and public policy issues under Jewish and secular law. It offers modern legal...

Missouri law firms announce new promotions and personnel changes.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff On The Move St. Louis Area Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus P.C. is pleased to announce the addition four new attorneys to its St. Louis and Clayton offices. Paul J. Cambridge joins the firm...

Missouri judge says Green County is in desperate need of another circuit judge.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Donna Walter Greene County is "in desperate need" of another circuit judge, says Judge J. Dan Conklin. "We haven't had another circuit judge here since 1978, and we've had a 69 percent increase in population." But last year,...

Kansas City tries to condemn and take downtown parking lot from private investor group.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole Twice Kansas City tried to condemn and take a downtown parking lot owned by private investor group Broadway-Washington Associates. The city, which wanted the lot for an office building, failed both times using...

Missouri jury decides if settled claims were covered by insurance.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Anne C. Vitale A jury -- and not a judge -- in a federal district trial has decided what portion of a lawsuit settlement paid by an insured was for claims that were covered under the insurer's umbrella policy and what portion, if...

Missouri Supreme Court rules polygraph obtained held admissible although defendant confessed.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Thomas F. Harrison Polygraph tests were held admissible in a case where police lied to a defendant and told her that she had failed the polygraph test to get her confession. The defendant went on to confess, and the Missouri...

Missouri Court of Appeals says liability limitation provision misapplied by trial court.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Denise G. Callahan It's a fine line between victory and defeat. Just ask Rockwell Automation Inc. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, just put a $97.6 million defeat right back at its door. Rockwell caught a break...

Missouri Court of Appeals reverses and remands earlier St. Louis Circuit Court decision.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Allison Retka If a company fails to hold up its end of an employee contract, the contract is void and can't be used to prosecute an employee who likewise breaches the contract. This was the unanimous opinion of the Missouri...

U.S. Supreme Court overlooks private property case.(Lingle v Chevron U.S.A. Inc.)(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lingle v. Chevron took away one argument property owners could use to seek damages over government regulation of private property. The ruling was significant but was eclipsed by the...

Question rose about Missouri eminent domain initiative petition.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Heather Cole Attorney Stan Wallach was cornered outside the Schnucks grocery store in the St. Louis suburb of Des Peres recently by a young man seeking signatures for an eminent domain ballot initiative. Wallach read over the...

Missouri Court Of Appeals case summaries: May 22, 2006.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Appellate Practice Contempt Judgment - Compliance - Mootness Where a wife in a dissolution was found in contempt for failing to comply with a judgment pendente lite, the wife's appeal became...

Missouri Court Of Appeals case summaries: May 22, 2006.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Appellate Practice Rule 84.04 - Brief - Inadequate Where the brief of defendants in a civil case included a 53-page statement of facts and the points relied on and argument section also failed...

Missouri Court Of Appeals case summaries: May 22, 2006.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Administrative Powerball Ticket - Deadline - Refusal To Pay Where the state lottery commission refused to pay a $100,000 prize to a man who bought a winning Powerball ticket because he failed...

Missouri Supreme Court case summaries: May 22, 2006.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Banks and Banking Deed Of Release - Demand Letter - Notice Where plaintiffs sent their bank a demand letter for a deed of release under Section 433.130 and the bank failed to timely provide the...

Missouri U.S. Bank Court Appellate Panel case summaries: May 22, 2006.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Bankruptcy Frivolous Appeal - Sanctions Where a creditor that filed objections to debtors' amended plans lacked standing to object to the plans because it did not hold an allowed claim and the...

Missouri United States Court of Appeals case summaries: May 22, 2006.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Administrative Preemption - Hearing Aids Sale - Mail Order Where an Illinois company sold hearing aids in Missouri without complying with state statutes that required fitting and testing by a...

Missouri attorney files a motion for a new trial after jury found in favor of the defendant.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Defense verdict The attorney for a stroke victim, who claimed his injury was the result of a chiropractic adjustment, filed a motion for a new trial immediately after a divided jury found in favor...

Missouri lawyers settle for $500K without mediation.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff $500,000 settlement Lawyers representing insurance companies, rural families, a landowner and two boys involved in an accidental shooting were able to settle a case for $500,000 without mediation...

Chevrolet Lumina seatbelt design blamed for teenager's paralysis.
May 22, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly staff Confidential settlement Concern for the well-being of a disabled teenage crash victim ultimately prevailed as lawyers for the plaintiff and defense reached a confidential settlement before their...

Verdicts & Settlements May 29, 2006: Driver alleges low-speed crash left him permanently disabled.(Johnny L. Thomas Jr., and Marsha Thomas v. Walt's Drive-A-Way Inc., and Thomas Stone)(Case overview)
May 29, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff $259,400 verdict A St. Louis jury award of $259,400 to a contract driver can be a lesson to defense lawyers on how to mitigate damages. Kathryn Van Voorhees said she wanted to submit...

Verdicts & Settlements May 29, 2006: Jury clears doctor of medical malpractice after he admits error.(Anita Bailey v. Rogelio Bautista, M.D.)(Case overview)
May 29, 2006... Byline: Missouri Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense verdict A Randolph County jury faced with all sides in agreement that a surgeon was in error cleared the doctor of medical malpractice charges related to a gallbladder operation gone bad....