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The Missouri House gave final approval on Wednesday to an overhaul of the standards for courts to admit expert testimony. The bill, passed 85-68, would require Missouri courts to follow the so-called Daubert standard, named for the 1993 U.S. Supreme ...

The Missouri House on Tuesday sent a bill to the governor that could reduce how much plaintiffs can collect in medical damages in personal injury suits. The change to the collateral source rule passed on a 95-57 vote following an ...

As expected, Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday appointed Jeff Harris as a circuit judge for the 13th Judicial Circuit, which covers Boone and Callaway counties. Harris’ appointment comes even as he is seeking election to hold the seat permanently. He ...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to review a $12.5 million verdict for a former railroad worker injured in a Jefferson County railyard accident. The February 2014 verdict by attorneys from Schlichter Bogard & Denton in St. Louis was ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the state’s noneconomic damage cap for medical malpractice cases involving wrongful death. In a 5-2 ruling, the court said the cap is not an unconstitutional violation of equal protection rights, even though until ...

A state appeals court on Tuesday upheld most of a record judgment in a wrongful foreclosure case, though it said the plaintiffs cannot keep the title to the property. Early last year, a Clinton County judge awarded David and Crystal ...

A $10.5 million jury verdict that put a St. Louis law firm out of business has been affirmed on appeal. The November 2014 award against Green Jacobson, then a prominent transactional and complex litigation firm, was the largest-ever reported legal ...

An administrative law judge has issued what is believed to be the first award under a recent state law that granted enhanced benefits in cases involving death from asbestos exposure. Judge Mark Siedlik on April 4 approved an award of ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday said credit card transactions are not a form of “manufacturing,” denying a tax break to a company and paring back a series of precedents that had used an “expansive interpretation” of the term. Missouri ...

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit against a gun store alleged to have sold a weapon to a mentally ill woman who used it to kill her father. The court ruled that Missouri law recognizes “negligent entrustment” ...

A state appeals court has turned down a group of St. Louis residents who tried to save a city ordinance requiring voter approval to publicly fund sports stadiums. In doing so, the Missouri Court of Appeals declined to review a ...