On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 An 18-year-old man was killed on Aug. 14 when a pickup truck struck his motorized scooter from behind on a highway in southeast Missouri. The truck driver fled the scene shortly after the accident, but police say they […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Thursday, August 11, 2011 A 32-year-old woman is facing a charge of driving under the influence after she was involved in a single-vehicle accident early in the evening of Aug. 8. The accident injured both the suspected drunk driver and her young […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Medical Malpractice on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 A Missouri man who serves in the U.S. Army has settled his medical malpractice suit against the government over treatment his wife received at the hospital at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The man’s lawsuit alleged that his wife may have […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Defective Products on Friday, August 5, 2011 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Ford Motor Co. recently announced a recall of more than 1 million Ford and Lincoln pickup trucks after a person was injured due to a problem with the straps that hold the […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 A dramatic single-vehicle car accident that caused the death of the driver appears to have been caused by excessive speeding, according to witnesses. The driver’s identity was not immediately available, and police declined to say whether anyone else […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Medical Malpractice on Thursday, July 28, 2011 A Pennsylvania woman suffered terrible pain and eventually lost over a foot of her small intestine after the surgical team that performed her Cesarean section left a sponge inside her abdomen. Now she has obtained justice for their medical […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 An accident between an all-terrain vehicle and a pickup truck on a highway in southeast Missouri resulted in the death of the ATV rider, an 8-year-old boy, the Missouri Highway Patrol said on July 19. The tragic accident […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Workers’ Compensation on Friday, July 22, 2011 The heat wave that has enveloped much of the United States the past week has proven dangerous to those who cannot escape the triple-digit temperatures and sweltering humidity. The National Weather Service estimated that 141 million people were subject […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Medical Malpractice on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 A calculus teacher who was left with the cognitive abilities of a child after a doctor and nurse allegedly gave her more than twice the recommended dosage of sodium was awarded $34 million by a New Jersey jury in […]

On behalf of Brown & Crouppen, P.C. posted in Motor Vehicle Accident on Friday, July 15, 2011 A patient being transported to the hospital in an ambulance died shortly after the ambulance was struck head-on by a dump truck on a southwestern Missouri highway on July 8. Four other people involved in the accident were […]