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Maritime attorneys, insurance brokers and forensic specialists discussed a hypothetical accident during the St. Louis Inland River Seminar.

Building on its success, the Inland River Seminar returns to St. Louis September 19 at the Missouri Athletic Club from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

BENTON – U. S. District Judge Staci Yandle rejected Madison County jurisdiction in a potential class action against Exchange stores on military bases and dismissed it on Jan. 19.

BENTON – U. S. District Judge Staci Yandle must decide whether to dismiss a class action privacy invasion claim against Exchange stores on military bases or remand it to Madison County where it started.

EDWARDSVILLE - A Granite City man is suing his employer after suffering injuries when his foot was caught between a boat and a barge.

EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty correctly cleared Sparta Community Hospital of liability for the death of Pennsylvania tourist Glenn Lash, Seventh Circuit appellate judges ruled on June 22.

A barge company argues that a man’s lawsuit alleging he slipped on ice, fell into the Mississippi River during a snowstorm and became trapped under the barge should be dismissed because the incident was the result of the natural accumulation of snow and ice and was not foreseeable.

EAST ST. LOUIS — A dive barge worker claims he was injured when he tripped over a channel laying across the deck.

Settergren A barge company argues that an employee’s concealed pre-existing condition is to blame when he allegedly slipped on ice, fell into the Mississippi River during a snowstorm and became trapped under the barge by the current.  Defendant SCF Lewis and Clark Fleeting LLC answered the complaint on April 29 through attorney Neal Settergren of Goldstein and Price LLC in St. Louis. The defendant admits that it employed plaintiff Herbert Hardimon as a barge clean...

Dripps EDWARDSVILLE — A former transport vessel engineer who suffered injuries claims the boat was allowed to be in service even with a negligent captain and the vessels known unseaworthiness.  Michael Myers filed a complaint April 26 in the Madison County Circuit Court against Magnolia Marine Transport Company and Phillips 66 Company, alleging negligence, breach of warranty of seaworthiness and breach of duty to provide cure. Myers was the chief engineer and a c...