Late last month, I took a case to jury trial in Clay County, Missouri involving a 40-year old man who fell on a white foreign substance in the driveway of a house where he had been  hired by the owners to do some remodeling work.  The owners denied that the white foreign substance was present, but I had another co-worker that testified she had seen it just a few days before my plaintiff worker fell.  In the fall, the worker sustained a contusion or bruise to the spinal cord and also had to undergo a fusion surgery in his neck to relieve pressure from a herniated disc to the spinal cord.  The insurance company for the owners offered $10,000 on the first day of trial, and after four days of trial, the jury returned a verdict of $650,000 less 25% of the fault to the worker.  Given the facts and circumstances, it was a good result.

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