Despite a slowing economy, President Donald Trump declared this week the United States was enjoying a “boom the likes of which we have never seen before!” Trump told the Economic Club of New York that “we have delivered on our ...

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"Incurred" doesn't mean "paid," a Missouri appeals court said in the first appellate decision to interpret a state statute that provides a framework for determining the amount of medical damages that may be submitted to a jury. The decision by the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District is a victory for plaintiffs' lawyers, who want juries to calculate verdicts using the higher amount of what health care providers bill, rather than the lower amount of what they accept as payment.

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A St. Louis County jury awarded a man $37,000 more than what he was awarded in his first trial after he was allowed to enter all of his medical damages. In August, Judge Steven Goldman granted Ronald Vickery’s motion for ...

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St. Louis County Circuit Judge Stephen Goldman created a stir when he declared the medical bills statute of Missouri’s tort reform law unconstitutional. In an order granting the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, Goldman in August said the law ...

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A Missouri appeals court heard arguments Tuesday morning about the meaning of the medical billing statute - a subject with no current caselaw to draw from. Paul Hasty, who represents Charles Danter, a driver who hit a pedestrian, argued that the pedestrian, James Berra, should not have been allowed to present to the jury medical bills totaling just more than $90,000. The nearly $29,000 Medicare paid satisfied Berra's financial obligation to his health care providers, he argued.

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The medical bills statute of the 2005 tort reform law is unconstitutional, a St. Louis County judge said Thursday as he granted a plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. Judge Stephen Goldman called the procedure for determining the reasonable value ...

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