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The deadline is quickly approaching for those thinking of submitting a nomination for The Daily Record’s Second Annual KC Legal Leaders of the Year awards. Individuals from the legal community will be chosen for the award by a panel of ...

Timing is everything. A defendant doctor and his attorney found that out the hard way after the Missouri Supreme Court overturned for the second time a trial court’s decision to reduce the amount of the damages against the doctor by ...

A Missouri father who was acquitted of sex abuse charges made during a custody battle has won nearly $170,000 in a malicious prosecution case. William Bather of Liberty, Mo., claimed that his ex-wife obtained a three-count grand jury indictment against ...

A Jackson County trial court will have to recalculate lost profits awarded to the owners of a damaged airplane, the Missouri Supreme Court held Tuesday, putting an end to the split among appellate districts over what expenses courts should deduct ...

Specific and practical training has been identified as the reason for poor performance levels among rank-and-file workers and their immediate supervisors. In turn, only one of two employees believes their employer has done a good job of providing them with ...

For the second consecutive year, a federally mandated cap on temporary, nonagricultural foreign worker applications has been reached early, leaving landscape contractors without the labor they tend to rely on come spring and summer. There is no sign of that ...

An employee was injured while performing work that was not the usual business of his company and was therefore not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits as a statutory employee, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled in ...

A murder defendant who asserts self-defense may present evidence the victim had a violent reputation to prove the victim was the initial aggressor, the Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday. The Supreme Court’s decision clarifies the law, said attorney Gary E. ...

At the start of a new year, the nation’s home builders expect the housing market to remain strong as a growing economy helps offset the impact of slowly rising mortgage interest rates, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells ...

A dump truck driver who backed over and killed a co-employee could not be sued for wrongful death, the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Western District has ruled. The driver was immune under the workers’ compensation law, the court said, since ...

Corporate taxpayers take note: Paying an estimated fee is not the same thing as making a deposit. This, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, explained in its resolution of a dispute between Ford Motor Co. and the city of ...