Personal Injury Defense
![Supreme Court Declines Credit Card Companies' Request to Review Class Certification](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/139999_06072024.jpeg)
Financial Services Law Blog
Supreme Court Declines Credit Card Companies' Request to Review Class Certification
![Sanction of Dismissal with Prejudice Approved for Repeated Discovery Violations](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/139730_05132024.jpeg)
![Missouri Supreme Court Reverses Trial Court, Finding Plaintiff Failed to Present Submissible Negligence Claim Under the "Known Third Person" Exception to the Third-Party Criminal Act Rule.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/137790_01292024.jpeg)
!["Judicial Hellholes" - Cook County rises to number 2 while St. Louis, St. Clair and Madison County Hold Steady](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/137632_02062024.jpeg)
!["Judicial Hellholes" - Cook County rises to number 2 while St. Louis, St. Clair and Madison County Hold Steady](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/137634_02062024.jpeg)
![Old Navy's discounted sales failed to provide basis for valid Missouri Merchandising Practices Act claim.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/137624_01292024.jpeg)
![Plaintiff Denied Review of Huffing Death Case Dismissal](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/137470_11222023.jpeg)
Product Liability Law Blog
Plaintiff Denied Review of Huffing Death Case Dismissal
![For the First Time, Kansas Federal Court Bars Product Liability Claims Based on Plaintiff's Illegal Conduct](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/135130_10052023.jpeg)
Product Liability Law Blog
For the First Time, Kansas Federal Court Bars Product Liability Claims Based on Plaintiff's Illegal Conduct
![Illinois Expands Law to Allow Punitive Damages for Wrongful Death and Survival Plaintiffs](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/135117_10042023.jpeg)
![Venue and Selection of Registered Agents for Corporate Defendants](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/135091_10032023.jpeg)
Missouri Law Blog
Venue and Selection of Registered Agents for Corporate Defendants
![No Laughing Matter...Assumption of the Risk Defense Upheld.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/134817_08212023.jpeg)
Missouri Law Blog
No Laughing Matter...Assumption of the Risk Defense Upheld.
![The Impact of Mallory v. Norfolk Southern R. Co. in Illinois, Missouri & Kansas](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/134665_08042023.jpeg)
Product Liability Law Blog
The Impact of Mallory v. Norfolk Southern R. Co. in Illinois, Missouri & Kansas
![Illinois Appellate Court Expands Specific Personal Jurisdiction Analysis](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/133410_06222023.jpeg)
Illinois Law Blog
Illinois Appellate Court Expands Specific Personal Jurisdiction Analysis
![All Claims Means ALL: The PREP Act Provides Immunity in COVID-19 Vaccination Case](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/133354_06192023.jpeg)
Drug / Device Law Blog
All Claims Means ALL: The PREP Act Provides Immunity in COVID-19 Vaccination Case
![Square peg, round hole. Ordinary work product claims not enough to keep settlement agreement from disclosure.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/133017_05162023.jpeg)
!["Judicial Hellholes" - St. Clair and Madison County Make Their Way off the List While Cook County and St. Louis Hold Steady](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/130004_01102023.jpeg)
!["Judicial Hellholes" - St. Clair and Madison County Make Their Way off the List While Cook County and St. Louis Hold Steady](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/130005_01102023.jpeg)
![Missouri Legalizes Marijuana: How Amendment 3 Could Change the Workplace](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/129779_01092023.jpeg)
Employment & Labor Law Blog
Missouri Legalizes Marijuana: How Amendment 3 Could Change the Workplace
![Jackson County, Missouri Jury Rejects 3M Surgical Blanket Infection Claims](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/129549_11042022.jpg)
Drug / Device Law Blog
Jackson County, Missouri Jury Rejects 3M Surgical Blanket Infection Claims
![Missouri business owners owe no general duty to protect against third-party criminal acts.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/129194_10062022.jpg)
![SCOTUS Rules States May Seek Recovery from Settlement Payments Allocated for Future Medical Expenses](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/127321_07292022.jpg)
![U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Monsanto's Appeal to End Roundup Lawsuits](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/127221_07182022.jpg)
Product Liability Law Blog
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Monsanto's Appeal to End Roundup Lawsuits
![Timely Motion for Change of Judge Strips a Judge's Authority to Rule on Subsequent Motions](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/126067_07182022.jpg)
![Mulligan of an Affirmative Defense: Missouri Supreme Court holds physician-patient privilege not waived by having asserted certain affirmative defenses](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/125783_05312022.jpg)
![Mulligan of an Affirmative Defense: Missouri Supreme Court holds physician-patient privilege not waived by having asserted certain affirmative defenses](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/125784_07182022.jpg)
![Admitting agency no longer bars direct negligence theories in Illinois.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/124545_05312022.jpg)
Illinois Law Blog
Admitting agency no longer bars direct negligence theories in Illinois.
![Admitting agency no longer bars direct negligence theories in Illinois.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/124546_05312022.jpg)
Transportation Law Blog
Admitting agency no longer bars direct negligence theories in Illinois.
![Missouri Debates Shortening its Personal Injury Statute of Limitations](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/124522_05312022.jpg)
Missouri Law Blog
Missouri Debates Shortening its Personal Injury Statute of Limitations
![Illinois Supreme Court Workers' Compensation Act is Exclusive Remedy Only Against "Immediate Employers"](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/121910_06202022.jpg)
![Court Applies Two-Year Statute of Limitations for Health Care Providers to Bar Plaintiff's Claim Despite Attempt to Label It as One for Ordinary Negligence](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/121726_06092022.jpg)
![TRO Puts Illinois Judicial Circuit Redistricting to a Halt](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/120475_06072022.jpg)
Illinois Law Blog
TRO Puts Illinois Judicial Circuit Redistricting to a Halt
![The Pandemic Continues to Impact Kansas City Area Trials and Verdicts](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/120425_06272022.jpg)
Missouri Law Blog
The Pandemic Continues to Impact Kansas City Area Trials and Verdicts
![In 2021, a Record Setting $1 Billion Dollar Verdict was Rendered Against a Trucking Company - Demonstrating that Nuclear Verdicts in Trucking Cases Continue to Rise](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/120162_06152022.jpg)
![Year in Review: A Midwest-Focused Review of 2021 Product Liability Cases](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/120099_08232022.jpeg)
Product Liability Law Blog
Year in Review: A Midwest-Focused Review of 2021 Product Liability Cases
!["Judicial Hellholes" - A trio of Illinois Counties Move Up the List while the City of St. Louis Remains an Honoree](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/120021_07012022.jpg)
![Missouri Court of Appeals Holds Two-year Statutory Limitations Period Does Not Apply to Action Against In-home Personal Care Provider](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/119675_06202022.jpg)
![COVID Liability Bill Update - Governor Signs Legislation Shielding Healthcare Providers and Others From Most COVID-Related Lawsuits](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/118251_06202022.jpg)
![COVID Liability Bill Update - Governor Signs Legislation Shielding Healthcare Providers and Others From Most COVID-Related Lawsuits](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/118253_08042022.jpg)
![Prejudgment Interest Has Hit Illinois](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/116581_06072022.jpg)
Illinois Law Blog
Prejudgment Interest Has Hit Illinois
![COVID Liability Bill Heads to Governor's Desk](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/116511_06202022.jpg)
Healthcare Law Blog
COVID Liability Bill Heads to Governor's Desk
![An Inconvenient Forum? Move to Dismiss Before It's Too Late](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/116331_09222022.jpeg)
Missouri Law Blog
An Inconvenient Forum? Move to Dismiss Before It's Too Late
![Illinois Courts Begin Weighing in on COVID-19 Exposure Claims](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/115943_06072022.jpg)
Illinois Law Blog
Illinois Courts Begin Weighing in on COVID-19 Exposure Claims
![What is Open and Obvious? Time to Ask the Jury.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/115783_09222022.jpeg)
Missouri Law Blog
What is Open and Obvious? Time to Ask the Jury.
![Should you Shovel that Snow? The Massachusetts Rule is still the Rule in Missouri.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/115699_09222022.jpg)
![Jurisdictional Expansion: Specific Personal Jurisdiction Just Got Broader](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/115705_06072022.jpg)
Product Liability Law Blog
Jurisdictional Expansion: Specific Personal Jurisdiction Just Got Broader
![Governor Pritzker Vetoed HB3360 but HA2 which imposes a 6% prejudgment interest is already close on its tail.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/115624_09212022.jpeg)
![U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Review Issue of Jurisdiction for Non-Resident Plaintiffs in Products Cases](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/115338_09272022.jpeg)
![Do Illinois Businesses Face a Wave of Lawsuits Following the COVID-19 Pandemic?](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/114849_09212022.jpg)
![The Kansas City Area Saw Trials Plummet in 2020 Due to the Pandemic](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/114726_10272022.jpg)
Missouri Law Blog
The Kansas City Area Saw Trials Plummet in 2020 Due to the Pandemic
![If Illinois' Governor signs HB3360 it would impose a 9% pre-judgment interest.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/114526_09212022.jpeg)
![Parson's Pandemic Protections for Providers - Governor Parson Encourages Tort Liability Legislation During COVID-19 State of Emergency](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/114077_06202022.jpg)
![Parson's Pandemic Protections for Providers - Governor Parson Encourages Tort Liability Legislation During COVID-19 State of Emergency](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![Missouri enacts significant changes affecting punitive damages and consumer protection claims](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![Where There Has Been No Genuine Opportunity to Conduct Relevant Discovery, a Motion for Summary Judgment is Premature](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![Limiting Logo Liability for Motor Carriers](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
Missouri Law Blog
Limiting Logo Liability for Motor Carriers
![Let's Be Specific About Personal Jurisdiction: Missouri and Illinois Address Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![Let's Be Specific About Personal Jurisdiction: Missouri and Illinois Address Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![Missouri House Approves Stricter Standards for Punitive Damages Claims](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
Missouri Law Blog
Missouri House Approves Stricter Standards for Punitive Damages Claims
![Timing is Everything: Missouri Appellate Court Reminds Us Evidence Cannot be Excluded as "Subsequent Remedial Measures", Where the Remedies Preceded the Accident](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![Kansas City Area Saw Increase in Defense Verdicts in 2019, According to Annual Jury Data](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![Illinois First District Appellate Court upholds $4.8 million asbestos verdict against John Crane.](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![Illinois First District Appellate Court upholds $4.8 million asbestos verdict against John Crane.](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/104258_07012022.jpg)
Product Liability Law Blog
Illinois First District Appellate Court upholds $4.8 million asbestos verdict against John Crane.
![City of St. Louis falls to 5th on the Judicial Hellhole list with Madison and St. Clair Counties, Illinois close behind ranking 7th.](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![City of St. Louis falls to 5th on the Judicial Hellhole list with Madison and St. Clair Counties, Illinois close behind ranking 7th.](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![Is a case overturned due to confusing special interrogatories still relevant under rule change?](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![Illinois Court of Appeals Draws Careful Distinctions for Access to Mental Health Records](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![Taxation of Lost Wages Awards Under the FELA: the Illinois Appellate Court Applies Loos v. BNSF](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![United States Supreme Court Holds Counterclaim Defendants May Not Remove Diverse Lawsuits](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/95713_06072022.jpg)
Product Liability Law Blog
United States Supreme Court Holds Counterclaim Defendants May Not Remove Diverse Lawsuits
![What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been: Illinois Supreme Court Upholds Decision That Res Judicata Does Not Apply to Involuntary Dismissal of Multiple Prior Complaints Spanning Ten Years](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![Second Update: Hopping On The Missouri Bandwagon? Not So Fast Out Of State Litigants.](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![Illinois Counties Remain Top Jurisdictions for Asbestos Litigation in 2018](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Statutory Caps on Noneconomic Damages](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/92478_09272022.jpeg)
![Update: Hopping on the Missouri Bandwagon? Not so Fast Out-of-State Litigants.](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![In a case of first impression, the Appellate Court of Illinois allows counsel to withdraw previously disclosed testifying expert](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![Hopping on the Missouri Bandwagon? Not so Fast Out-of-State Litigants.](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
Missouri Law Blog
Hopping on the Missouri Bandwagon? Not so Fast Out-of-State Litigants.
![City of St. Louis - Still A Judicial Hellhole](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
Missouri Law Blog
City of St. Louis - Still A Judicial Hellhole
![Employees: An affirmative and purposeful reminder that the safety of your co-workers may also be your duty](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![Missouri Court of Appeals Declines to Adopt a Parking-Lot Right-of-Way Rule](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![Eighth Circuit Takes a Hardline Position on Non-Retained Expert Witness Disclosures](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![Federal Preemption Doesn't Bar Railroad's Suit Against Locomotive Seat Manufacturer](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
Product Liability Law Blog
Federal Preemption Doesn't Bar Railroad's Suit Against Locomotive Seat Manufacturer
![Breaking Up [Plaintiffs] Is [Not] Hard To Do](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/75525_07012022.jpg)
Drug / Device Law Blog
Breaking Up [Plaintiffs] Is [Not] Hard To Do
![You've Got Mail - Service of Process by Mail is Satisfactory under the Hague Service Convention](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
Product Liability Law Blog
You've Got Mail - Service of Process by Mail is Satisfactory under the Hague Service Convention
![Federal Judge Clobbers Claims in a Class III Medical Device Case](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/66131_06272022.jpg)
Drug / Device Law Blog
Federal Judge Clobbers Claims in a Class III Medical Device Case
![Indiana Judge Relies on Bausch to Bounce Preemption Motion](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/65551_06062022.jpg)
Drug / Device Law Blog
Indiana Judge Relies on Bausch to Bounce Preemption Motion
![Court Muzzles Counsel: Says Defendants Cannot Ask Plaintiffs if Their Attorneys Referred Them to Treating Physicians](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![The Daubert Standard - Coming Soon to a Missouri Court Near You](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
Missouri Law Blog
The Daubert Standard - Coming Soon to a Missouri Court Near You
![Federal Judges Blow Their Stacks Over Boilerplate Objections](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
Product Liability Law Blog
Federal Judges Blow Their Stacks Over Boilerplate Objections
![Reports of the Death of Litigation Tourism in Missouri Have Been Greatly Exaggerated](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![Mere Designation of an Expert Witness Does Not Waive the Work Product Doctrine Protections](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![Supreme Court of Missouri Holds No Waiver of Work Product Privilege When Party Rescinds Designation of Expert Witness Without Disclosing the Expert's Analysis or Conclusions](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![Enforceable Exculpatory Clause in Contract Results in Summary Judgment for Defendant](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![Forum Non Conveniens - When Home Isn't Always Convenient](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
Drug / Device Law Blog
Forum Non Conveniens - When Home Isn't Always Convenient
![UPDATE: Capped & Constitutional](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
Missouri Law Blog
UPDATE: Capped & Constitutional
![Missouri Court of Appeals Again Rules That Police Officer Testimony as to Fault of Party to Accident is Inadmissible](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![Capped & Constitutional](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
Missouri Law Blog
Capped & Constitutional
![Kansas Court of Appeals Upholds Noneconomic Damages Cap Again](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
Kansas Law Blog
Kansas Court of Appeals Upholds Noneconomic Damages Cap Again
!["Excusable neglect" is a real standard requiring real evidence (Updated 01.04.2016)](B07AF5/assets/images/NewsImages/30187_02062023.jpeg)
![A Declined Invitation, But Does An Open Door Still Remain?](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
Missouri Law Blog
A Declined Invitation, But Does An Open Door Still Remain?
![Missouri Court of Appeals Weighs in on the Stringent Requirements of the Pre-Judgment Interest Statute, and Whether Partial Payment of a Judgment Waives the Right of Appeal](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![State's "Right to Try" Legislation Hangs Drug and Device Manufacturers Out to Dry.](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
![Frying the Frye Test and Increasing the Caps: New Amendments to Kansas Civil Actions and Civil Procedure](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![ACOG and Permanent Brachial Plexus Injuries at Birth](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
Missouri Law Blog
ACOG and Permanent Brachial Plexus Injuries at Birth
![In a differential etiology, experts need not rule out all possible causes](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
Product Liability Law Blog
In a differential etiology, experts need not rule out all possible causes
![Medical Malpractice: Strict Compliance with the Missouri Health Care Affidavit Statute is a Must](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
![Punitive Damages Part 1: Don't Get Caught Flat-Footed](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
Kansas Law Blog
Punitive Damages Part 1: Don't Get Caught Flat-Footed
![Workers' Compensation + Retaliation + Missouri Supreme Court adopts the "contributing factor" standard](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
Employment & Labor Law Blog
Workers' Compensation + Retaliation + Missouri Supreme Court adopts the "contributing factor" standard
![Kansas abolishes assumption of the risk defense.](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)
Kansas Law Blog
Kansas abolishes assumption of the risk defense.
![A mundane lesson from an important decision, or, the importance of presenting evidence](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb0.png)
![No Signed Settlement Necessary, Except When It Is](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb1.png)
Kansas Law Blog
No Signed Settlement Necessary, Except When It Is
![Missouri's New Uninsured Motorist Law Precludes Uninsured Driver's Right to Non-Economic Damages](/B07AF5/static_assets/images/thumb2.png)