Injuries & Lawsuits
142 laws
Missouri tort law covers personal injury and civil claims for damages — negligence, wrongful death, liability, and the limits on what can be recovered. These statutes govern how injury lawsuits work in the state.
Action for damages to property to survive regardless of death of either party
RSMo 537.010
Action for personal injury or death to survive regardless of death of either party
RSMo 537.020
Action for damages
RSMo 537.021
Section 537.010 not to extend to what action
RSMo 537.030
Design professionals
RSMo 537.033
Peer review committees
RSMo 537.035
Emergency care, no civil liability, exceptions (Good Samaritan law)
RSMo 537.037
Emergency care or assistance at scene of emergency or accident
RSMo 537.038
Parent or guardian liable for damages by minor, when, limitation
RSMo 537.045
Childhood sexual abuse, injury or illness defined
RSMo 537.046
Civil action for damages authorized, sexual and pornographic offenses involving a minor
RSMo 537.047
Civil action not merged in criminal prosecution
RSMo 537.050
Sale of alcoholic beverage may be proximate cause of personal injuries or death
RSMo 537.053
Operation of a motorcycle not evidence of comparative negligence
RSMo 537.055
Personal injury, bodily injury, or wrongful death, time-limited demand to settle, requirements
RSMo 537.058
Contribution between tort-feasors
RSMo 537.060
Claimant and tort-feasor may contract to limit recovery to specified assets or insurance contract, when
RSMo 537.065
Joint and several liability of defendants in tort actions, allocation of responsibility for judgment
RSMo 537.067
Court may enter remittitur order or increase jury award, when
RSMo 537.068
Provisions of certain laws applicable to all causes of action
RSMo 537.069
Action for wrongful death
RSMo 537.080
Defenses to wrongful death action
RSMo 537.085
Damages to be determined by jury
RSMo 537.090
Joinder of parties not required, when, effect on recovery
RSMo 537.095
Limitation of action
RSMo 537.100
Definitions
RSMo 537.1000
COVID-19 exposure, immunity from liability, when
RSMo 537.1005
Health care providers, immunity from liability, exceptions
RSMo 537.1010
Covered products, no COVID-19 products liability, when
RSMo 537.1015
Punitive damages, when
RSMo 537.1020
Expiration date
RSMo 537.1035
Radio station not liable for defamation, when
RSMo 537.105
What words are actionable
RSMo 537.110
Food donation or distribution, limited liability, when
RSMo 537.115
Officers or members of governing bodies of certain corporations, charities, organizations or clubs immune from personal liability for official acts, exceptions
RSMo 537.117
Volunteers, limited personal liability, certain organizations and government entities, exceptions
RSMo 537.118
Physician not liable for restraint of mentally incapacitated persons
RSMo 537.120
Civil action for damages for passing bad checks, only original holder may bring action
RSMo 537.123
Shoplifting
RSMo 537.125
Citation of law
RSMo 537.1250
Stealing, civil liability
RSMo 537.127
Liability for damages caused by riotous assemblage
RSMo 537.130
Political subdivisions to defend tort actions against firemen involving use of motor vehicles
RSMo 537.165
Waiver of rights to damages by blind employee
RSMo 537.170
Negligence of fellow servant no defense in action by employee against railroad or mine
RSMo 537.180
Fellow servant defined
RSMo 537.190
Vice-principals defined
RSMo 537.200
Contracts limiting liability invalid
RSMo 537.210
Construction and application of sections 537.180 to 537.210
RSMo 537.220
Action against mining operator for wrongful death of employee
RSMo 537.230
Railroads and railroad corporation or companies
RSMo 537.240
Liability of common carrier for loss or damage to property transported
RSMo 537.250
Railroad liable for killing stock
RSMo 537.260
Insufficient fence on railroad
RSMo 537.270
Injury to stock by railroad
RSMo 537.280
Failure to pay agreed damages
RSMo 537.290
Firearm ranges
RSMo 537.294
Agricultural operation not to be deemed a nuisance, when
RSMo 537.295
Private nuisance
RSMo 537.296
Transfer of anhydrous ammonia, tamperer assumes risk
RSMo 537.297
Penalty for driving away of others' stock by drovers
RSMo 537.300
Proceedings under section 537.300
RSMo 537.310
Judgment
RSMo 537.320
Definitions
RSMo 537.325
Paddlesport activities
RSMo 537.327
Private campgrounds, immunity from liability for inherent risks of camping
RSMo 537.328
Malicious trespass
RSMo 537.330
Trespass on realty
RSMo 537.340
Definitions for sections 537.345 to 537.347 and 537.351
RSMo 537.345
Landowner owes no duty of care to persons entering without fee to keep land safe for recreational use
RSMo 537.346
Landowner directly or indirectly invites or permits persons on land for recreation or wildlife management, effect
RSMo 537.347
Landowner liable, when
RSMo 537.348
Liability of landowner to trespasser, immunity where trespasser under influence of drugs or alcohol
RSMo 537.349
Double damages for throwing down gates and fences
RSMo 537.350
Trespassers, no duty of care by owners, exception
RSMo 537.351
Liability for damage or destruction of field crop products, when
RSMo 537.353
Prescribed burning act
RSMo 537.354
Private property, permission by owner to hunt, fish, or recreate, limitation on privilege
RSMo 537.355
Single damages only recoverable, when
RSMo 537.360
Penalties, how recovered
RSMo 537.370
Fires from railroad engines
RSMo 537.380
Double damages for willful fires
RSMo 537.400
Damages for backwater caused by boom across stream
RSMo 537.410
Tenant for life or years liable for treble damages for waste
RSMo 537.420
Who may sue
RSMo 537.430
Heirs may sue for waste, when
RSMo 537.440
Tenant holding land after having aliened it liable for waste
RSMo 537.450
Tenants liable to cotenants, when
RSMo 537.460
Conservators, liable for waste, when
RSMo 537.470
What damages recovered for waste
RSMo 537.480
Treble damages if waste was wantonly committed
RSMo 537.490
Where waste committed pending suit, receiver may take possession
RSMo 537.500
Actions for waste, brought against whom
RSMo 537.510
Interest as part of damages
RSMo 537.520
Institutional vandalism, civil actions for damages or injunction
RSMo 537.523
Injunction and damages for interference with lawful hunting and trapping
RSMo 537.524
Tampering with computer data, computer equipment, or computer users
RSMo 537.525
RSMo 537.528
Uniform public expression protection act
RSMo 537.529
Limitation on liability for injury or death at fairs or festivals
RSMo 537.550
No civil liability for forcible entry into a vehicle for purpose of removing an unsupervised minor, when
RSMo 537.555
Citation
RSMo 537.595
Sovereign immunity in effect
RSMo 537.600
Supervision of community service work, immunity from liability, when
RSMo 537.602
Liability insurance for tort claims may be purchased by whom
RSMo 537.610
Liability of state increase to apply, when
RSMo 537.615
Political subdivisions may jointly create entity to provide insurance
RSMo 537.620
Procedure to form insurance entity
RSMo 537.625
Director to approve articles and issue license
RSMo 537.630
Entity to be treated as corporation
RSMo 537.635
Director to examine
RSMo 537.640
Director may take charge of entity, when
RSMo 537.645
Premium tax not required
RSMo 537.650
Tort victims' compensation fund established
RSMo 537.675
Percentage of fund to be used to assist uncompensated tort victims
RSMo 537.678
Eligibility requirements
RSMo 537.681
Filing of a claim, determining compensation, procedure
RSMo 537.684
Medical records submitted, when
RSMo 537.687
Petition for review of a decision by the division filed with commission
RSMo 537.690
Right of subrogation, payment of a claim
RSMo 537.693
Public entity risk management fund established
RSMo 537.700
Effect of participation in fund
RSMo 537.705
Board of trustees established
RSMo 537.710
Board of trustees
RSMo 537.715
Board, meetings
RSMo 537.720
Board
RSMo 537.725
Board
RSMo 537.730
Fund account, how maintained
RSMo 537.735
Insufficient contributions, assessment, abatement, deferral
RSMo 537.740
Construction of provisions
RSMo 537.745
Exhaustion of fund, claims to be prorated
RSMo 537.750
Fund money not available for certain purposes, exception
RSMo 537.755
Maximum amount payable from fund
RSMo 537.756
Products liability claim defined
RSMo 537.760
Motion to dismiss, defendant whose only liability is as seller in stream of commerce requirements, procedure
RSMo 537.762
State of the art, defined
RSMo 537.764
Contributory fault as complete bar to plaintiff's recovery abolished
RSMo 537.765
Citation of law
RSMo 537.785
Criminal or harmful acts, no duty of business to guard against, when
RSMo 537.787
Citation of law
RSMo 537.850
Signage required
RSMo 537.856
Immunity from liability, when
RSMo 537.859