The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reported that a driver of a car that struck and killed a bicyclist last year was sentenced to three years imprisonment. The sentence is the result of a plea bargain and the Kirkwood woman may be eligible for parole in one year. The incident was brought to trial because the […]
According to a Columbia Missourian story reprinted in the St Louis Post-Dispatch the Missouri law against texting by young drivers has not yet resulted in many tickets being written. The story does pass on the sentiment that it is a hard law to enforce, maybe because of the fact that those violating the law may […]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reported that a man who was driving the wrong way on Interstate 55 near Sidney Street was killed after his car collided with another vehicle in an accident on. The driver had been traveling southbound on I-55 on February 24 before entering the northbound lanes and striking the other vehicle. […]
The Missouri Senate that has passed a bill to fund the bankrupt Second Injury Fund of the Missouri Workmen’s Compensation System. This bill also has some provisions though that relate to liability claims that have been in the courts for several years. In an effort to keep the Second Injury Fund solvent many toxic exposure […]
The members of the Missouri State Senate have passed a bill that should help many injured workers and their families. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial article on February 17, 2013 the Second Injury Fund has not been able to pay injured workers for injuries from years ago. Once this bill becomes signed into […]
The Staphylococcus aureas bacteria that can cause the very serious infection known as MRSA has been found by a recent research study to be prevalent in nursing homes. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of California Irvine, found that twenty of the twenty two homes evaluated had the bacteria present. This bacterium is […]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reported that two drivers were killed when their vehicles were involved in an accident on Highway 100. According to details from the Missouri Highway Patrol the accident occurred on February 13, 2013 when one of the vehicles crossed over the center line and hit the other vehicle head on. Police […]
According to a recent report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch one man was killed and another was injured in a collision at an intersection in St. Louis on February 4, 2013. The impact was so violent that one driver suffered fatal injuries after being thrown completely from his vehicle. The other driver involved was taken […]
On Saturday February 2nd a tractor trailer operator lost control of his truck exiting Interstate 44 and entering Interstate 270 and has died in the crash involving no other vehicles. According to the news story published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the police believe the sudden snow may have had something to do with the […]
The Toyota Motor Corporation has issued a recall of 907,000 vehicles that have faulty airbags and another 385,000 Lexus IS vehicles for faulty windshield wipers. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported on January 30, 2013 that most of the airbags were in Corolla models or Corolla Matrix models manufactured between 2001 and 2004. The airbags […]
