Category: St. Louis Personal Injury Lawyer

Motorcycle Drivers More Likely to Suffer Serious Injury or Death in Accidents

A Government Accountability Office report looking at data collected in 2010 estimates that motorcyclists are 30 times more likely to die in a crash than people using other vehicles.  According to the report $16 billion was spent for deaths and injuries related to motorcycle accidents but the overall cost is hard to calculate. The change […]

Written by on December 11, 2012

Faulty Dishwasher Blamed for Fire

A dishwasher that had been the subject of a recall in 2009 has been blamed for causing $70,000 in damages to a St. Peters home. The dishwasher, a Bosch and Siemens Model according to the report in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was recalled by BSH home Appliances Corporation due to a bad electrical component that […]

Written by on December 6, 2012

Generator Recalls for Two Products Announced in November

The use of generators has been in the news recently with all of the power outages on the east coast that resulted from Hurricane Sandy’s devastation. We certainly aren’t strangers to rough weather in Missouri, so purchasing a generator may very well have crossed your mind in order to keep your home powered in the […]

Written by on November 22, 2012

Two Demolition Workers Injured at Site of Apartment Fire

The same St. Louis apartment building that was the scene of a fierce fire in July, leaving the building devastated and 250 people displaced from their homes, was the scene of an accident on November 11. In a story published by St. Louis Post Dispatch November 12 it was reported that two demolition workers were […]

Written by on November 20, 2012

Hospital Pays Settlement for Violating Federal Law

A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article published November 4 reports a Joplin Hospital, Freeman Health System, will pay $9.3 million for improperly compensating Doctors that referred patients to the facility. It is against federal law for physicians to send patients to hospitals that they have a financial vested interest in. This violation was found by an […]

Written by on November 15, 2012

Prison Time for Five Time DWI Defendant

A man who has been arrested at least five times for DWI has been sentenced to four months in jail after accepting a deal from prosecutors.  A story published in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reveals that the driver, who crashed into two parked cars at a McDonalds in Des Peres Missouri in 2010, was unaware […]

Written by on November 13, 2012

August Busch IV Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit

The former CEO of Anheuser-Busch brewing company and great-great grandson of company founder August Busch has reached an agreement to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.  The suit was filed against him in relation to the accidental death of his girlfriend Adrienne Martin.  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the death was caused by an accidental […]

Written by on November 8, 2012

Truck Driver Sentenced in Court

A recent story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Adam Steinmann, a 27 year old truck driver, has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.   Steinmann was given an eight year sentence after an accident he caused took the lives of two innocent women. Mr. Steinmann did not properly secure a 46,000 pound piece of […]

Written by on November 6, 2012

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Warns Patients of Possible Meningitis Exposure

The St. Louis Post Dispatch recently reported that the company that produced the steroid that has been linked to the meningitis outbreak had supplied another drug used at St. Elizabeth Hospital.  So far there has been only one meningitis case investigated that was caused by a heart injection that this particular drug is used for.  […]

Written by on November 1, 2012

Warrenton Man Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter

The man driving a car that went out of control and overturned, ejecting his passenger, on Sunday night has been charged with involuntary manslaughter following the passenger’s death. The story, reported on Tuesday October 23, 2012, is especially tragic as the passenger was the driver’s father. The Missouri state police say that the two men […]

Written by on October 30, 2012