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121075P.pdf 07/25/2013 Paula Kingman v. Dillards, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-1075
and No: 12-1091
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Bye and Smith, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Torts. For the court's prior opinion in the case see Kingman
v. Dillards, Inc., 643 F.3d 607 (8th Cir. 2011). The "heavy lifting and
adjustment" Paula Kingman provided her husband Calvin is within the realm
of services encompassed by the notion of consortium under Missouri law;
the consortium award was supported by the evidence and was not
inconsistent with this court's prior opinion or in conflict with Missouri
law regarding the proportionality between an injured party's award and
their spouse's consortium award.