Missouri generally retain sovereign immunity with 3 exceptions. Jones v. Hwy Comm’n in 1977 abolished sovereign immunity, but the legislature responded with a statute that revived it 537.600. §537.600 State government is immune with three exceptions: Dangerous condition on public entity’s property, negligent, defective or dangerous designs of a road, although it’s hard to…
Awrongful death suit that was filed by the family of a killed highway worker is going to trial, and jury selections have begun. In May 2012, four highway workers were struck on Highway 64 in Illinois as they were working in the median. Kory Links, Adam Evans, Dennis Beard, and Brian Moore were repairing…
Res Ipsa Loquitur is latin for”the thing speaks for itself.” This legal theory is used when it is uncertain how an accident occurred, but the circumstance would not have occurred without negligence. To succeed on the basis of Res Ipsa Loquitur, the Plaintiff must prove: this type of accident generally does not occur without negligence, prove the defendant had control over the mechanism that caused the injury, and exc
A tragicvehicle accident has taken the life of a mom and her daughter and injured two more. In addition, this crash was attributed to a man who was driving while intoxicated after leaving a wine festival just before the accident. 35-year-old, Brian Jones lost control of his vehicle after he was enjoying himself at…
Consumers that drive a Ford Fusion, Fiesta, or Lincoln MKZ need to check with their manufacturer because there is a chance that their vehicles may have beenrecalled. In addition, the prior vehicles have been recalled twice in one week due to a serious safety issue. On Wednesday and Friday of last week, Ford Motor…
In the small, rural town of Hamel, Illinois located just outside St. Louis, Missouri one person is dead following a semicrash that happened Saturday afternoon. In addition, a pickup truck and a semi both collided at the intersection of Route 140, and Route 4 in the little town. The pickup rear-ended the semi, and…
Two demolition workers were severelyinjured Friday after a building collapsed in St. Louis, Missouri. The two men were cleaning and stacking bricks at the 3900 block of West Pine Boulevard when suddenly a large section of façade fell. Both men fell from the third floor of the building all the way to the basement….
Friday morning in St. Louis, Missouri, two demolition workers were injured in a near-fatal workplace accident. The two men were in the process of dismantling a building at the 3900 block of West Pine Boulevard when they fell more than 30 feet to the ground. In addition, as the workers were removing bricks by…
It looked like a scene out of a superhero movie in St. Louis Missouri Thursday morning when a Good Samaritan pulled two people out of a burning vehicle, but it wasn’t, it was real life. Furthermore, in Shrewsbury, a one-vehicle accident occurred on Interstate 44 after the driver suffered a diabetic related emergency. As…
Interstate 270 in St. Louis, MO was closed early Friday morning after a pedestrian was struck and killed. The accident happened when a 31-year-old man was attempting to cross-northbound lanes of the road just near Ladue Road when he was struck. The driver of the vehicle stopped after the accident, and has been very…