I am asking this question because the scenario just happened to a friend of mine and her husband. If a water main breaks and floods your Missouri home, can you sue the city for damages? It's an unbelievably complicated and sad answer.
How many people really read a label? A lot more than I guessed apparently as there's now a class-action lawsuit filed in Illinois claiming that a whiskey companies bottles are misleading since they allegedly have no whiskey in them at all.
Sometimes when you get fed up and just can't take it anymore, action is called for. That is apparently the line that was crossed for a woman who filed a lawsuit because there isn't enough strawberry in her Pop Tarts. Really.
(Jefferson City, Mo)—The issue of Tort Reform in Missouri received a blow last August when the Missouri Supreme Court struck down a law signed in 2005 by then Republican Governor Matt Blunt, capping the pain and suffering part of medical malpractice lawsuits at $350,000...