A St. Louis jury on Monday awarded a woman $55 million in her case against Johnson & Johnson that claimed her ovarian cancer was linked to the company’s talcum powder products, including baby powder. The verdict is the second high ...
Read More »Voter ID requirement advancing in Missouri Senate
The Missouri Senate on Monday agreed to a requirement for people to show photo identification when voting, ending almost a month of Democratic attempts to block the legislation and clearing a path for it to pass the Legislature. Republicans agreed ...
Read More »St. Louis jury awards $55M in Johnson & Johnson cancer suit
For the second time in three months, a St. Louis jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a huge award over claims that its talcum powder causes cancer. The jury deliberated eight hours Monday before ordering the company to ...
Read More »Missouri Democrats see scant progress on police oversight
Taped on the office door of Rep. Brandon Ellington, the chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, is a cutout of the House public safety chairman’s smiling face, topped with the words “This is what bigotry looks like!” The poster directs ...
Read More »EPA announces latest steps addressing Missouri landfill fire
The owner of a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste has agreed to new measures meant to slow and help monitor the underground blaze, a U.S. Environmental Agency administrator said last week. While stressing there’s no evidence ...
Read More »Husch to combine with Wisconsin firm
One of Missouri’s largest law firms is getting bigger. Husch Blackwell announced Friday that it is merging with one of Wisconsin’s biggest law firms. The combination with Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, a 140-lawyer firm based in Milwaukee, is effective July 1. ...
Read More »Nixon promises ‘tight look’ at tort bills
Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday said he hasn’t decided what action he would take on two bills passed this week that would make changes to tort law. “Anything that changes hundreds of years of law requires a very tight look ...
Read More »Expert witness bill goes to governor
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 ...
Read More »KC business wins $1.4M verdict in contract dispute trial
A dispute over a broken contract led to a $1.479 million jury verdict Tuesday for a North Kansas City company. The plaintiff, Info-Data Services Inc., is a data management services company, according to court records. Since about 2000, it contracted ...
Read More »Missouri Senate passes rules on releasing body camera video
The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would limit the public’s access to some footage from police body cameras, which Republican lawmakers said was a necessary prerequisite for more law enforcement departments to take up the technology. Other bills mandating ...
Read More »Billy Busch offers $1 more than siblings for Grant’s Farm
Kraftig Brewing Co. founder William K. “Billy” Busch is now offering $1 more than his siblings in his effort to buy Grant’s Farm in south St. Louis County. Busch on Monday increased his offer for the attraction to $26,000,001. He ...
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