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Missouri Injury Law Blog

News and events dealing with Missouri injury and accident Law.
By Benjamin J. Sansone, Esq.

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 07:43:19

Illinois Personal Injury Settlement - BB Gun Injury - $335,000.00 Through Homeowner's Insurance

Posted on September 03, 2010
Illinois personal injury victim received a personal injury lawsuit settlement on behalf of her child in the amount of $335,000. Her child sustained serious personal injuries in Illinois to his neck when he was shot by a pellet gun. The child was playing at a friend?s home when the Illinois personal injury incident occurred...

$5.3 Million Settlement in Wrongful Death Case

Posted on August 31, 2010
DuPage County IL ? A settlement was recently announced regarding a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the husband of Samantha Medina, Chris Medina, against Dr. Mark Kelly and his practice, Winfield Radiology; Dr. Henry Echiverri and his practice, Neuromed Clinic; and Central DuPage Hospital...

$65 Million Verdict Upheld in Florida Car Crash Suit

Posted on August 27, 2010
August 21, 2007, 19 year old Kendra Lymon was driving her Dodge Neon through an intersection and was struck by Robert Bohn, a part time tractor-trailer driver for Bynum Transport, Inc. Another tractor-trailer in the opposite turn lane blocked Bohn?s view, but he turned left anyway hitting Lymon on her driver?s side and crushing the entire vehicle...

Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Katie's Kids Learning Center Daycare

Posted on August 19, 2010
Last week, in Delray Beach, Florida, attorney Andrew Yaffa filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Katie's Kids day care after a staff member found 2 year old Haile Brockington dead inside the facility's van. Haile and the other children were picked up by the van around 9 a...

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St. Louis Tractor Trailer Accident

Posted on August 18, 2010
A tractor trailer accident occurred around 11:30 a.m. this past Monday, at the Taylor Avenue overpass. The truck struck the median barrier that runs between east and westbound Highway 40 (Interstate 64), killing the driver, Thomas J. Niemeyer. At this time, witnesses and emergency responders are unsure of the reason why the driver lost control of the truck...

Medical Malpractice Veridct - Cardiac Arythmia after Gastric Bypass Procedure

Posted on August 13, 2010
This past Wednesday, an jury returned a $6.2 million medical malpractice personal injury verdict against Shands Hospital in favor for the family of a University of North Florida Business School professor who died in 2002 from complications arising after a gastric bypass surgery...

Missouri Premise Liability Lawsuit - Bar Responsible for Defective Condition of Steps

Posted on August 12, 2010
A Kansas City woman and Missouri premise liability personal injury victim, sustained a fractured foot and dislocated shoulder when she fell from a newly constructed smoking deck at the Green Duck Lounge. The bar had recently built the deck off the rear of the building in response to the smoking ban on indoor spaces...

Missouri Work Comp Law - Courts Open up Pathway to Co-Worker Liability

Posted on August 07, 2010
For years under Missouri workers compensation law that the injured employee's sole remedy is to make a Missouri work comp claim. Meaning that they cannot also sue the co-worker that may have been negligent in causing the injury to the worker. That was the give and take of work comp law in Missouri, negligence or legal liability does not need to exist meaning an injury gets compensated regardless of fault, but in exchange the amount of compensation is limited by work comp reimbursement rates and charts depicting value in weeks for certain body parts and injuries...

Missouri Medical Malpractice Issues - Almost No Public Information About Serious Medical Errors

Posted on August 05, 2010
The St. Louis dispatch recently had an article exposing the near impossible task of reviewing a doctor?s ?resume? or finding any detailed information on Missouri medical malpractice cases they were involved in or if they have any reported medical errors to any supervisory board...

St Louis Area Truck and Bus Crash - Missouri Serious Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Resulting from Tragic Accident

Posted on August 05, 2010
Around 10:15 this morning 2 people were killed and 40 plus injured from what the Missouri Highway Patrol is calling a Missouri chain-reaction automobile accident on I-44 near Gray Summit. As a semi truck cab ? no trailer attached ? neared a slowed convergence area, caused by an approaching construction zone, a GMC pickup truck slammed into the back of the cab...

Pizza Hut Delivered a Hefty Lawsuit ? Employer Liability for a Motor Vehicle Accidents Causing Severe and Permanent Personal Injury

Posted on August 02, 2010
In November 2008 Olena and Shari Novak, a mother and her adult daughter, were the victims of a head on collision. The car accident caused serious and permanent personal injury, including permanent brain injuries to the daughter and a broken neck, among other personal injuries, to the mother...

Medical Malpractice St Louis Missouri - Negligent Laparoscopic Gallbladder Removal or "Lap Choli"

Posted on July 28, 2010
Laparoscopic Gallbladder Surgery, medically known as a Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and often abbreviated as Lap Choli, is a surgical procedure that is performed through several small incisions in the abdomen and using surgical probes (laparoscopes) to perform the surgery to remove a problem or diseased gallbladder...

Quick Appeal Bond Guide

Posted on July 15, 2010
Before you consider appealing a court decision, you should know about appeal bonds. They exist as a deterrent to frivolous appeals. As a type of surety bond, an appeal bond requires the party filing the appeal to pay the cost of the original judgment?if the appeal fails?and costs of appealing the ruling...

Motorcycle Injuries on the Rise: Causes, Prevention, and Resolution

Posted on July 01, 2010
Have you ever heard that you?re more likely to be involved in a car accident than in a plane crash? If you have, you?re not alone. It seems to be common knowledge that driving a car is risky business. However, as awareness of the dangers of driving has increased, important steps have been taken to reduce those dangers...

$500,000 Settlement - St Louis Personal Injury, Work Comp and 3rd Party Liability for Negligence

Posted on June 23, 2010
In October 2008 a St Louis personal injury victim and carpenter working on a St Louis Missouri residential two-story home that was under construction in St Louis County. On that same day a negligent construction worker and roofer who was an employee of St Louis based Allen Roofing & Siding was on the roof of that same residential house installing shingles...

St Louis Missouri Bike Accident - Personal Injury Settlement over $200,000.00

Posted on June 02, 2010
St Louis Personal Injury Lawyerr Ben Sansone represents the victim of a motor vehicle and bicycle accident wherein the driver of the car failed to yield to the cyclist in a designated bicycle lane and hit him with the front end of her truck. The St Louis bicyclist suffered from bruises and abrasions and a dislocated shoulder...

St Louis Injury Law - Invasion of Privacy

Posted on May 14, 2010
As previously discussed on this blog and on behalf of an anonymous victim, St Louis personal injury lawyer Ben Sansone is pursuing personal injury claims of invasion of privacy seeking compensatory and punitive damages against Jack Eigles, as well as various claims against Corporate Cash Flow Solutions...

Missouri - texting or phone use and driving laws - Texting Ban Map - Texting and driving Wrongful Death

Posted on April 27, 2010
Article by Erin Mace - Sansone Law, Staff Above is a map showing each state?s current ban on text messaging while operating a motor vehicle. As you can see, more states are restricting all phone use while driving. 23 states and the District of Columbia ban all drivers from texting, while only 8 states ban novice drivers to use their phones for any purpose ? talking or texting...

Missouri Supreme Court Hearing Arguements about Missouri Medical Malpractice and Tort "Reform" Laws

Posted on April 15, 2010
Ann Spradling, et al. v. SSM Health Care St. Louis, SC90613, has challenged the Missouri medical malpractice provision that requires a plaintiff to a file written opinion from a doctor ?practicing substantially the same specialty? as the defendant doctor...

Erin's Corner: "A Well Played Hand" - St Louis Wrongful Death Judgment Not Collectable Against Malpractice Insurer

Posted on April 05, 2010
In a recent St Louis Wrongful Death Verdict, a family will not be able to collect on the $2.4 million dollar St Louis Missouri wrongful death judgment against a local dentist, at least not against any Missouri malpractice insurance coverage. The St Louis wrongful death victim, Henry Johnston, underwent sedation at James Bubenik?s dentist office and died four days later from complications...

Limits on Medical Malpractice Awards Constitutional? Missouri Supreme Court Signals .... Not Constitutional

Posted on March 23, 2010
As many Missouri personal injury victims and Missouri injury attorneys know, since August 2005 Missouri tort "reform" was signed into law and gave health care providers special status by limiting Missouri personal injury judgments or money awards against them to $350,000 in non economic damages...

St Louis Missouri Lawsuit - Invasion of Privacy - Local Businessman Jack Eigles Allegedly Videotapes Women using the Bathroom

Posted on March 09, 2010
A local St Louis area businessman named Jack Eigles has been criminally charged with Invasion of Privacy, a Class D Felony. Allegedly he videotaped several women using the bathroom at his office in addition to several women at his home during holiday parties...

Products Liability - Trunk used for Toddler's Toys Traps Head

Posted on March 09, 2010
A young child suffered severe personal injuries after the oxygen was cut off to her brain for several minutes when the lid of a trunk used for her toys fell and caught her neck. Apparently the trunk had been marketed for years with the knowledge that the trunk was used for toys, moreover, the trunk was at such a level as it is reasonably foreseeable that a young child would open the trunk...

Missouri Product Liability and Failure to Warn - Toy Thrown into Eye - Severe Eye Injury Lawsuit

Posted on March 02, 2010
Previously, the Missouri personal injury lawyers of Sansone Law have represented individuals injured by defective or dangerous toys, we have handled a previous Missouri toy eye injury case to a very successful conclusion. See Missouri toy eye injury lawsuit...

St Louis Missouri Work Comp Case Settles for $245,000.00 plus Future Medical Benefits

Posted on February 18, 2010
A St Louis Missouri work comp claim we have been handling recently settled for a $245,000.00 lump sum representing the present value of approximately $750,000. Our Missouri personal injury client, the injured worker, preferred a lump sum payment as opposed to monthly payments over 25-30 years, thus the case was settled in present value as opposed to payments over many years...

Illinois Supreme Court rules Medical Malpractice Caps are Unconstitutional

Posted on February 04, 2010
Illinois personal injury lawyers that represent medical malpractice victims will be ale to seek justice and full compensation for their clients now that the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases violates the Illinois Constitution...

TBI and Drunk Driving Trends - Guest Author: Chelsea Travers with Care Meridian

Posted on January 19, 2010
Each year in the United States there are well over 1 million people who suffer from some sort of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Of that, between 50,000 and 100,000 people die from a TBI incident and approximately 80,000 to 90,000 are left with some sort of long lasting TBI impairment...

California doctor receives 5 years in prison for.......depends on whose side you take.

Posted on January 18, 2010
Staff Article by Erin Mace. July 2008, a California ER doctor was driving to work and apparently caused two cyclists to wreck their bikes, seriously injuring them. One biker had to have 90 stitches to put his face back together and the other one also had to undergo surgery for his injuries...

Missouri Supreme Court Hears Constitutionality of Missouri Medical Malpractice Non-Economic Damage Caps

Posted on January 14, 2010
In a previous St Louis injury lawyer article I discussed the Missouri medical malpractice caps and that the Supreme Court was scheduled to hear oral arguments on a case challenging the caps. See Missouri Medical Malpractice Caps Article. Today, the Supreme Court heard the arguments from both sides regarding the constitutionality of the medical malpractice damage caps in Missouri...

St Louis Personal Injury Lawyer discusses Legal Elements and Issues Related to 3rd Pary Criminal Act Personal Injury cases in Missouri - Special Relationship or Circumstances Must Exist

Posted on January 08, 2010
Missouri personal injury premise liability for criminal acts arises when there is (1) a "special relationship or circumstances" between the landowner and the personal injury victim, (2) personal injury resulting from a criminal act of a 3rd party, and (3) causation, i...

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