MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

The past year saw some of the highest Top Ten Jury Verdicts nationally in recent years, exceeding the previous two years.

An appeals court has thrown out the lion’s share of a former police officer’s jury award against the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners.

General Motors Corp. has agreed to pay as much as $23.8 million to settle liability for environmental cleanup costs in St. Charles and two East Coast locations, the U.S. said.

The state Supreme Court today upheld a lower court’s judgment in a plaintiff’s jury verdict against a Chad Franklin car dealership.

The Brentwood Municipal Court needs to provide for an independent review of accounting records and reconcile bond liabilities at the end of each month, according to a report released today by state Auditor Thomas A. Schweich.

Lawyers for real estate developer Paul McKee Jr. and opponents of his proposed North St. Louis redevelopment plan will face off in the Missouri Court of Appeals on Wednesday in a dispute about whether McKee is entitled to tax-increment financing.

Thirty-two applicants are vying to replace former Judge John Ross on the St. Louis County Circuit bench. Ross had been serving as presiding judge of the county circuit bench when the U.S. Senate confirmed him as U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Security guards at Barnes-Jewish Hospital severely beat a third-year psychiatric resident without provocation on two separate days last July, according to a lawsuit in the St. Louis Circuit Court.

Over the past few years, the growth in health care costs has quietly been slowing down. Naturally, we’d like to make this trend last. That means we’ll need to avoid betting big on just one strategy.

A new U.S. government unit will investigate misconduct in the bundling of mortgage loans into securities that fueled the housing bubble and contributed to the financial crisis, Attorney General Eric Holder said.

Home Builders Association Patrick Sullivan predicts a 15 percent increase in homebuilding activity this year compared to 2011.