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Missouri Court Affirms Ovarian Cancer Talc Verdict For Non-Residents

December 11, 2017

By Order filed on November 29, 2017, the Missouri Circuit Court Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit (City of St. Louis) (“Missouri Circuit Court”) affirmed a Missouri jury’s verdict in favor of 61 talc plaintiffs, two of whom were Missouri residents and the remaining 59 were non-residen[...]

Missouri Veteran Receives $8.3M Settlement For VA Malpractice

November 21, 2013

A retired 43-year-old U.S. Army veteran and long-time postal worker from St. Louis, Missouri had a cardiac stent implanted at the John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri during February 2009, after he experienced chest pain. The stent was implanted by using a catheter inserted t[...]

$10.8M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Routine Catheterization

September 3, 2013

On August 29, 2013, a Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded $10,831,155 to the family of a 34-year-old woman who died after a routine cardiac catheterization in February 2011. The woman left behind her husband and three children, ages 5, 9, and 11. The woman had gone to her doctor due to bronc[...]

Missouri $6.4 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stroke

July 16, 2013

A Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife $6.4 million on July 5, 2013 for a stroke the man suffered in 2007. The basis for the man’s medical malpractice lawsuit was his primary care physician’s failure to diagnosis and treat his bacterial infection that led to a str[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Failure To Treat Uninsured’s Necrotizing Fasciitis

July 4, 2013

A Missouri medical malpractice lawsuit is scheduled for a jury trial in September 2013 for the disabling injuries and the substantial pain and suffering sustained by a 66-old-man who claims that a Missouri hospital emergency room failed to provide him required medical care because he did not have[...]

Missouri State Senators Looking To Harm Medical Malpractice Victims (Again)

May 2, 2013

On April 30, 2013, Missouri state senators debated proposed new legislation (House Bill 112) that would reinstate a $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases that the Supreme Court of Missouri had held in its July 31, 2012 decision in the Watts v. Lester E. Cox Medical Cen[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Claim For Stillborn Baby And Mother’s Death

December 18, 2012

A medical malpractice jury is in the midst of hearing and deciding a medical malpractice case in Missouri that began last week and is expected to end sometime this week. The medical malpractice claims arise from the delivery of a stillborn on December 6, 2006 and the death of the mother 31 days la[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Determines Cap On Noneconomic Damages Is Unconstitutional

August 1, 2012

In its written opinion filed on July 31, 2012, the Supreme Court of Missouri held “that section 538.210 [Missouri’s $350,000 statutory cap on noneconomic damages] is unconstitutional to the extent that it infringes on the jury’s constitutionally protected purpose of determining the a[...]

Missouri $1.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 21, 2012

Earlier this month, a Missouri medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case that alleged that an 88-year-old woman who was a resident of a Missouri nursing home was left unattended and standing alone in her room after an aide helped her with [...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Cap Being Challenged

April 5, 2012

A 2005 Missouri law that placed caps on non-economic damages in the amount of $350,000 is presently being challenged as unconstitutional in a case before the Supreme Court of Missouri. The case involves a medical malpractice claim arising out of the birth of a baby in Missouri on November 1, 2006.[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims In Missouri — Official Report

May 14, 2011

According to the official 2009 Missouri Medical Malpractice Insurance Report, 2009 was a very good year for medical malpractice insurance companies in Missouri — they were profitable for the sixth straight year, with the total of payments for claims, loss adjustments, and administrative co[...]

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