On September 8, 2026, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, issued an opinion in State ex rel. Schnell v. Richardson where the Court discussed the landscape for using AI and the repercussions that can arise from misusing it in Missouri Courts. The case...
In Opioid Master Disbursement Trust II, a/k/a Opioid MDT II v. Ace American Insurance, et al., No. ED113635 (Mo. App. E.D. July 21, 2026), the Missouri Court of Appeals held that a “products-completed operations hazard” exclusion in several insurers’ policies was not...
The Missouri Court of Appeals recently clarified an important issue concerning the application of the “open and obvious” doctrine in Missouri premises liability law.
On July 9, 2026, Governor Mike Kehoe signed law Mo. Statute Section 379.135 which significantly changes the law of Missouri regarding the ability for an insured or claimant to assign rights to a claim or covered loss to a third party.
The Missouri Supreme Court recently abrogated the concept in the law that a granting of a summary judgment by a trial court be considered an “Extreme and Drastic Remedy” when a court is considering such a motion. The “Extreme and Drastic Remedy” standard had been...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri recently concluded in State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company v. Melissa Farley that an insurer had no duty to defend (and therefore indemnify) against the wrongful death claims asserted against its...
In the Eastern District of Missouri, a five-day jury trial last year delivered a clear and principled verdict in favor of our client, a national insurance company. The jury found that the policy provided coverage for certain storm-related damage to the Plaintiff’s St. Louis-based furniture manufacturing facility following severe weather events.
In Hanshaw v. Crown Equipment Corp., the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court’s exclusion of the plaintiff’s expert witness and the grant of summary judgment for the defendant.
The Missouri Court of Appeals for Eastern District recently reinforced insurers’ ability to limit uninsured motorist (“UM”) stacking through clear policy language in Mandie Brown v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.