A Kansas City-area attorney facilitated a confidential settlement between Ford Motor Co. and the 16-year-old victim of a North Carolina car crash.

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A product liability suit over a car explosion that killed a state trooper and injured a man could be headed to a Jackson County jury for the third time since it was filed in 2003.

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I was flipping through the morning talk shows (awww, look at the Scottish deerhound!) when I came across a disturbing consumer report on “Good Morning America” about toning shoes.

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The Missouri Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling for Ford Motor Co. in a product liability case and clarified a conflict in the law on what plaintiffs must do to pursue failure to warn claims.

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The Missouri Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling for Ford Motor Co. in a product liability case and clarified a conflict in the law on what plaintiffs must do to pursue failure to warn claims.

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A Northwest Missouri woman who claims her daughter died from complications of a birth control patch has agreed to settle with its manufacturers, but the agreement also needs a Jackson County judge’s OK before she’ll receive any money. A judge ...

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Chrysler’s acceptance of responsibility for claims has put the bloom back on some product liability cases. The auto manufacturer has agreed to accept product liability claims on vehicles made by its predecessor company before June 10, 2009, and involved in ...

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Allstate Insurance Co., which brought a subrogation action on behalf of a boat owner whose boat caught fire nine months after purchase, has recovered a $22,000 verdict, plus $56,000 in attorneys’ fees, in a St. Louis County product liability and ...

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Lawyer Stephen F. Meyerkord, “the perfect opponent,” will receive the Award of Honor, the highest award given by the Lawyers Association of St. Louis. He was dubbed the perfect opponent not because he’s easy to defeat; he isn’t. Rather, it’s ...

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In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court made plaintiffs’ lawyers happy Wednesday with its 6-3 decision allowing individuals to bring state claims against drugmakers. Dirk Vandever, a plaintiffs’ attorney with the Popham Law Firm in Kansas City, called the ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that patients can sue drugmakers for failing to provide adequate safety warnings, upholding a $7 million award to a musician who lost her arm after being injected with Wyeth’s Phenergan nausea treatment. The justices, voting ...

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