A woman injured after the car she was riding in hit a horse has lost her Camden County personal injury suit against the horse’s owner. Plaintiff Tanya Battison was a passenger in a vehicle driven by her husband when they ...
Read More »Anything but the Norm
With a calm demeanor, Norm Fretwell denied there was little, if anything, intriguing to say about himself. However, his slight grin revealed there was something more to tell. Leave it to Norm to play down a life that has not ...
Read More »ABA survey finds most lawyers favor pro bono work
A vast majority of lawyers surveyed by the American Bar Association believe lawyers should engage in pro bono work, but a smaller majority reported giving free legal assistance to help the poor. Ninety-three percent of the 1,100 attorneys surveyed agreed ...
Read More »Borrowers prevail against bank
A St. Louis County judge awarded nearly $1.2 million to plaintiffs as part of a class action suit against a bank that had been charging borrowers a document preparation fee in violation of state statutes. The class of plaintiffs brought ...
Read More »Missouri judicial conduct rules less restrictive than Minnesota's
The 8th Circuit recently took its cue from the U.S. Supreme Court and found that two additional clauses of Canon 5 of the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Canons of Judicial Conduct are unconstitutional. Although Missouri has similar clauses governing judicial conduct, ...
Read More »Technology is both a great work saver and work maker
Technology is a great work saver. It’s also a great work maker. It’s pretty much up to us. While technology was once viewed as the key factor in reducing our workload, it now seems it will lead to greater demands ...
Read More »Auto fraud law covers everything related to sales of cars
Chinese-American writer Lin Yutang said, “When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.” By that philosophy, justice should flourish in the rare practice of auto fraud. About 16 million new cars were sold to consumers in the ...
Read More »Animal clinic's driver not covered under company insurance policy
Commercial insurance policies can be confusing, but the Western District says if they are correctly read as a whole, instead of dissected, error can be avoided. In Jeff Miller v. Patrick Michael O’Brien and State Auto, the Missouri Court of ...
Read More »COA riles gas station owners not protected by statute of limitations
The owners of a DeSoto gas station that leaked gasoline and contaminated a neighbor’s land and groundwater are not protected by the statute of limitations because the plaintiffs asserted claims for a continuing trespass and a temporary nuisance, the Missouri ...
Read More »Missouri gets $21 million boost in affordable housing
CharterMac, which through its subsidiaries is one of the nation’s leading full-service, multifamily finance companies, announced that it has provided more than $21 million in debt and equity financing to ERC Development Group L.L.C. for the development of two new ...
Read More »Fighting back against video games
People of all ages are hooked on video games. In fact, recent studies have found that 83 percent of children between the ages of 8 and 18 live in a home with a video game console. And while the age ...
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