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Allegations that Kansas City’s Water Department regularly promoted less-qualified white employees at the expense of black workers, and was a hostile work environment were at the center of a trial that started this week in Kansas City. The plaintiff, LaDonna ...

The second largest plaintiff’s verdict of 2015 was cut from $433.7 million to just under $188 million Tuesday by a Missouri appeals court. The Western District Court of Appeals found that new hospital construction in Lee’s Summit and Independence counted ...

The Raymore-Peculiar School District has agreed to a $320,000 settlement of a lawsuit alleging that the district failed to follow its policy after a student’s sexual assault on a school bus and bullying by other students. The district disclosed the ...

A juror’s failure to disclose that her son died in a car crash has led the Southern District Court of Appeals to reverse a $19 million wrongful death verdict. The case stemmed from the death of Scott Spence, who was ...

A lengthy battle over whether healthcare giant HCA met its obligations as part of its purchase of Kansas City-area hospitals returned to court Tuesday, this time before the Western District Court of Appeals. HCA is appealing a $433.7 million judgment ...

The Western District Court of Appeals upheld a $3.25 million jury verdict against a Grain Valley company awarded to a woman shot on its property by her ex-boyfriend. Truck insurance provider Owner-Operator Services, Inc., also known as OOSI, appealed the ...

An Independence insurance agent received a $20,450,000 jury verdict Friday in her age and sex discrimination suit against American Family Insurance. A Jackson County jury returned the verdict following nearly four and a half hours of deliberations and two weeks ...

A lawsuit against a Kansas City firefighter and the Kansas City Fire Department over a motorcycle crash involving a city vehicle has ended in a $350,000 settlement. The Kansas City Council approved the settlement agreement by a unanimous vote without ...

Mary Marquez, deputy court administrator and director of Family Court Services, was promoted to court administrator effective Feb. 1, 2017, according to court spokeswoman Valerie Hartman. Marquez replaces Jeff Eisenbeis, who is retiring at the end of January. She has ...

An Orrick man paralyzed by a chain of crashes on Interstate 435 in Kansas City in 2014 received a $30 million jury verdict Thursday and his wife received a $7.5 million verdict on her loss of consortium claim. Tim Dollar ...

Strong support for Republican candidates statewide extended to the state’s contested judicial races Tuesday, as Republicans ousted two Democratic circuit judges in one circuit and swept races in two others. In the 23rd Circuit’s Division 3 circuit judge race, Republican ...