Principal Alexa Lester, with assistance from Benjamin Niemeyer, brought in a victory for their WWBH insurance carrier client in a first party property insurance lawsuit. The Plaintiffs were homeowners and named insureds on a homeowners’ policy. Plaintiffs alleged that...
Big congratulations to the trial team of David Bub, Bo Devereux, and Matt Geer for securing yet another outstanding jury verdict in St. Louis County in the case of Long v. Saltzman, 19SL-CC05512 (2025). Plaintiff’s counsel, widely recognized as one of the top trial...
The Eastern District Court of Appeals for Missouri recently upheld summary judgment in the nationally watched wrongful death case of Simmons v. Keat Properties, LLC, 717 S.W.3d 259 (Mo. Ct. App. 2025). The Simmons case involved the tragic death of a retired school...
Bradley Hansmann, Travis McDonald and Ted Wright recently obtained a defense verdict for their clients (“Sellers”) after the Plaintiffs in this matter sought over $150 Million in damages along with unspecified amount in Punitive Damages. This case arose from the sale...
The Federal Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit recently affirmed summary judgment in favor of a business owner, Exide, whom Jackie Kinder and Brendon Sanders represented and who was being sued for over $4,000,000 because of a worker falling into a batch of hot...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri granted summary judgment for WWBH clients, a gas station and its store manager, in a premises liability action where the Plaintiff claimed injury to her right knee and economic damages exceeding $200,000....
In the age of nuclear verdicts, Partner Tyler Finnegan recently defended a large local developer/property owner and a property management company in a premises liability case over damages in a trial before a St. Louis City jury. As one of the Plaintiffs was leaving a...
A Missouri property developer can't recover from Travelers $1.4 million for lost rental income and soft costs after a retaining wall failure caused delays at an apartment construction project, the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday. Affirming Travelers Property Casualty Co....
The Federal District Court of Kansas granted Summary Judgment for the WWBH client EMC Insurance Co in a construction defect case finding there was no coverage for a $410,000 arbitration award against EMC’s insured window installation contractor. In the arbitration the...
After extensive discovery in a construction defect lawsuit the Camden County Circuit Court granted Summary Judgment for the WWBH clients, a custom home contractor and its President, on Plaintiffs’ claims that defects in the construction of the home’s stucco exterior...