An untimely turning in of timekeeping records proved to be a $56,207 mistake for a Butler County Medicaid provider, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, said as it reversed a circuit court’s partial setting aside of the counselor’s reimbursements. ...
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The Better Business Bureau of Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois has pruned a landscape construction company from its membership. Dream Scapes contractor, Jeremy Rikard, who lists an unconfirmed address in O’Fallon, was notified by mail last week that the BBB ...
Read More »Mother must continue child support payments
A mother’s attempt to cut off her daughter’s child support when her ex-husband died was thwarted by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, last week, which held she must continue to make payments while her daughter attends college. The ...
Read More »All nonpartisan court plan judges retained in Missouri election
In Tuesday’s election, voters across Missouri retained every judge that had been appointed to the bench under the nonpartisan court plan, including Missouri Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Teitelman, who had faced opposition by several conservative groups. Before the election, ...
Read More »Home builders forecast 2005 business
Residential construction activity in 2005 is expected to ease but remain strong, said members of the National Association of Home Builders during a Construction Forecast Conference last week. According to NAHB leaders who attended a semiannual meeting, there is a ...
Read More »Court reverses date maintenance is effective
Maintenance should be awarded effective from the date of the original dissolution decree, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District ruled in a reversed in part, affirmed in part decision. In Pamela S. Comninellis, Appellant/Respondent v. George Comninellis, ...
Read More »Workers' comp award reversed over lack of jurisdiction
The state of Missouri does not have jurisdiction to award workers’ compensation benefits to a Festus woman who injured her wrist while delivering caskets in Tacoma, Wash., because her employment contract with an Indiana-based transportation company was finalized in Indiana. ...
Read More »Deed of release dispute sent to Supreme Court
A case that touches on the constitutionality of two statutes governing the timing and penalties of deeds of release will head to the Missouri Supreme Court, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, said on Tuesday. The transfer comes as ...
Read More »Changes allow alien to appeal deportation order
In recent years, the immigration laws have changed substantially, and many immigrants are unsure of where they stand under the more stringent changes. Such was the case for an illegal alien who gets another chance to appeal a deportation order, ...
Read More »Construction pros LEED field trip
The best way to learn is to see an example first hand. That is why teachers take students on field trips. Demonstrating that they are not too old to learn, members of the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers anticipated ...
Read More »Settlement with drug maker announced
Missourians who bought the anti-depressant drug Remeron could soon receive refunds under a nationwide settlement announced Monday by Attorney General Jay Nixon. Nixon and attorneys general from across the nation filed a preliminary settlement with drug maker Organon USA Inc. ...
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