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Jury says cable installers were contractors, not entitled to receive overtime payments

By Alan Scher Zagier Special to Missouri Lawyers Media A federal jury in southeastern Missouri rejected efforts by three cable installers to recoup unpaid overtime, siding with the Sikeston company that employed the men as independent contractors. Bryan Pennington of Park Hills, his cousin Stephen Pennington Jr. and uncle Stephen Pennington Sr. sued Integrity Communications of Sikeston in November 2011 in U.S. District Court. Company owners Ray and Holly Rehder, a Republican state representative, were also named as defendants. Pennington, citing the federal...

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Defense Experts ‘Tipped the Scale’ in Med Mal Case

By Alan Scher Zagier Special to Missouri Lawyers Media A federal judge in southeast Missouri rejected the medical malpractice claims of a 61-year-old man who sued a pair of physicians and the doctors’ employers after developing an infection following spinal fusion surgery. In a 19-page ruling issued June 17, U.S District Judge Carol E. Jackson of the Eastern District of Missouri found that Dr. Bernard Burns and Orthopaedic Associates of Southeast Missouri were not negligent in treating Michael Morgan of Elkville, Ill....

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