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Buried in the 750-page federal budget law is a bombshell for lawyers who practice elder law and estate planning – changes to the Medicaid long-term care eligibility rules that threaten to turn Medicaid planning on its head. The changes will ...

State legislators this year will narrow the law’s definition of property blight, the majority leader of the Missouri House of Representatives told a group of area businesspeople on Friday. “I think we will tighten the definition of blight,” said Republican ...

A debt collector who was not notified that a medical bill was disputed for 18 months cannot be sued under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for allegedly misstating the debt amount to the plaintiff’s attorney, the 8th Circuit has ...

Attorney Lon Walters not afraid to take the big cases

Business groups are praising three bills designed to expand workplace safety regulations, which they claim are currently burdensome, unclear and punitive. But labor groups say the bills would leave workers less protected. The bills were introduced by Sen. Michael Enzi, ...

Gazing deeply into her eyes, the CPA murmured to his love, “You have an exquisite asset-to-liability ratio.” With a sigh, she fell into his arms. “Oh, sweetheart, you balance my books like no other man&#133” The scenario, although perhaps not ...

A St. Louis City jury sided with the St. Louis Cardinals against a woman who claimed security at a baseball game in 2002 punched her with her 7-year-old son on her lap. The plaintiffs, Michelle Honeycutt and her 7-year-old child, ...

An en banc panel of the Western District Court of Appeals became deeply divided while interpreting a document deadline in the child support statutes. The crux of Brenda D. Owsley f/k/a Brittain v. Clayton J. Brittain lies on what lawmakers ...

Forensic accounting has come into the spotlight in recent years, in the wake of the shocking scandals at Enron and other large corporations, and the need to investigate money trails of terrorists. But for the most part, forensic accounting firms ...

At first glance, the CareerBuilder.com headline sounded incredible: “25 percent of men say dating the boss helped boost the economy.” While that was a misread, the actual headline proved only slightly less sensational: “25 percent of men say dating the ...

The family of a 14-year-old student athlete settled its lawsuit against the girl’s coach, her school and the gym where she was injured during basketball practice. The terms of the settlement were confidential, but the alleged damages were $6.9 million. ...