A record-breaking $95 million sexual harassment verdict could make employment plaintiffs’ attorneys rethink what claims they bring and provide an object lesson for employers.

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A federal jury awarded a man $160,000 for his breach of contract claim against his former attorney. But the jury sided with the attorney on two of his counterclaims. Tracy Tockstein, a contractor, sued attorney Steven Spoeneman, of Spoeneman, Watkins, ...

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A jury has returned a whopping $89 million verdict in a civil case against a drunken driver. The jury in Franklin County, just southwest of St. Louis, found for a woman who was a passenger in a vehicle struck by ...

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A federal jury awarded $100,000 to a plastic surgery patient whose naked photos were published in a Riverfront Times article about the doctors at a surgery center. The woman, identified only as “Jane Doe” from Georgia, expected her medical files ...

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The storm that hit St. Louis in July 2006 knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of residents, downed trees and power lines and damaged the historic Switzer Building on Laclede’s Landing beyond repair. Just two miles south of downtown ...

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Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, was told by a federal jury to pay $388 million to a Singapore company for stealing a patented invention used to deter software piracy. The jury in Providence, R.I., deliberated less than two ...

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A St. Louis County judge has increased a $4.9 million jury verdict to a printing company’s minority shareholder to more than $5.6 million. A jury awarded $1.9 million in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages to Stephen Smith ...

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Owners of an unusual commercial vehicle are entitled to lost profits for loss of use and replacement costs of the vehicle when it is damaged in a wreck, said the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Supreme Court affirmed a trial court's award of $201,000 to Gateway Foam Insulators Inc. for the loss of profits, replacement cost and environmental cleanup costs, associated with the wreck of its specialized foam insulation installation truck. The court only reversed an $11,723 award for loan interest.

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A U.S. district judge has refused to reject a $16 million verdict to a man in his wrongful imprisonment case and awarded his attorneys approximately $1.6 million in fees and costs. In August, a jury awarded Theodore W. White Jr. ...

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A federal jury in Iowa has awarded $7.5 million to a man who worked at a microwave popcorn plant and developed a lung disease caused by a chemical in the artificial butter flavor. The plaintiff, 69-year-old Ronald Kuiper, did not ...

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The jury’s or judge’s verdict is rarely the end of the story, as a pair of lawsuits recently filed by Davis, Ketchmark & McCreight show. In one lawsuit, filed Feb. 17, the Kansas City plaintiffs’ firm sued The Bar Plan ...

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