On May 22, 2018, the Missouri Supreme Court en banc decided Accident Fund National Insurance Company; E. J. Cody Company, Inc. v. E. Robert Casey, Employee/Delores Murphy.  550 S.W.3d 76 (Mo. Sup. Ct. 2018).  The Supreme Court decided that because Mr. Casey’s exposure to asbestos occurred while he was employed by E. J. Cody Company, […]

I recently settled a case for a woman who was a passenger in a car which was struck by another vehicle that failed to yield the right-of-way.  The case was complicated by the fact that the accident occurred in Oregon, which meant Oregon law applied to this claim.  Unlike Missouri, Oregon has a modified no-fault […]

I represented a union plumber in 2005 who sustained an on the job injury to his low back that required surgery.  We reached an excellent settlement of his worker’s compensation claim and my client recovered successfully from the surgery and continued in his career as a plumber. He returned to see me in 2017 after […]