The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, Lincoln County Jail and a number of law enforcement officers face accusations of assault and malicious prosecution after a lawsuit was filed on April 7 in the Lincoln County Circuit Court.
ST. LOUIS – A Warren County motorist alleges her insurer had no reasonable cause or excuse to refuse to pay her the amounts she alleges she is owed under her policy.
A food processing company facing a civil-rights employment and job discrimination lawsuit filed in Lincoln County wants that case heard instead in federal court.
ST. LOUIS – The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri recently denied an insurance company's claim that it was not obligated to defend Lincoln County and Detective Michael Merkel in a civil rights suit related to a murder case.
An appeals court has denied a new trial for Lincoln County, which had challenged a jury's award of $2.25 million to victims of sexual abuse committed by a former lieutenant at the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department.
