State Farm to pay $6.8 million to Florida policyholders State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the largest U.S. home and auto insurer, agreed to pay $6.79 million to more than 12,000 policyholders whose screen enclosures were damaged by hurricanes in ...
Read More »Hancock family sues Shannon’s
Drivers of disabled car and tow truck also sued
Read More »Arnold loses eminent domain case over dental practice
The tide may be turning in favor of property owners in eminent domain cases. First the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, determined that three properties in Clayton that developer Centene Corp. tried to condemn for an office complex were ...
Read More »Hancock family sues Shannon’s
Drivers of disabled car and tow truck also sued
Read More »SEC responds to complaints with Sarbanes-Oxley change
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, responding to complaints that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has been too costly to implement, approved guidelines that will allow executives to focus their attention on factors most likely to trigger financial misstatements. The SEC on ...
Read More »K.C. woman sues parent company of Marshalls over hacked records
Teresa Lamb shopped at Marshalls at least once a month from 2003 to 2006 not realizing every time she swiped her credit card she might have shared her information with computer hackers. The Kansas City resident filed a class action ...
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Charges filed in stabbing that killed one over weekend A Kansas City woman faces charges for her alleged involvement in a weekend stabbing that left one man dead. Jackson County prosecutors charged Amesha L. Williams, 20, with second-degree murder and ...
Read More »Missouri seen as front line in judicial war
A political battleground state, Missouri may now be on the frontier of the next war against the courts, according to a new national study. The study was produced by Justice at Stake Campaign and its partners, the Brennan Center for ...
Read More »Judge awards $7.5 million for death a year after crash
The 2006 death of a Holden man was the result of a crash caused by a drunken driver, a Jackson County judge determined Wednesday. Judge Sandra Midkiff awarded the family of Tony Bryant $7.5 million after hearing three days of ...
Read More »Correction
Stinson Morrison Hecker is adding 39 Blumenfeld Kaplan & Sandweiss attorneys. The move, announced Tuesday, means Stinson will become the second Kansas City firm to grow in St. Louis by adding Blumenfeld attorneys. The information was incorrect in an article ...
Read More »Former Gonzales aide names Graves as ninth U.S. attorney to be removed
Monica Goodling, former White House liaison for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, confers with her attorney John Dowd, right, before testifying at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in Washington. Goodling said the Justice Department intended for Todd ...
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