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The firm specializes in representing insurance and business clients in workers’ compensation defense, and has brought a St. Louisan on as a partner.

The bank made a goal to lend an additional $200 million over five years in St. Louis-area neighborhoods that have historically struggled to gain access to capital.

Attorneys representing a St. Louis area-resident and credit union have reached a class-action settlement over a lawsuit that alleged “deceptive” auto repossessions.

A local company has purchased a two-office tower complex in Clayton.

A caterer said that "business conditions have required us to reduce employment..."

A state-court judge on Friday OK'd a city of St. Louis move to condemn and take possession of the vacant Railway Exchange Building downtown.

Test results released Friday eliminated a possible source of an E. coli outbreak that sickened more than 100 people in St. Louis County. Tests run by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services detected no traces of E. coli in an unopened package of iceberg lettuce collected at Andre's Banquet Center after an estimated 106 attendees of two school band events, two funerals, and a veterans event catered by the business fell ill. "A negative test result for the lettuce does not conclusively…

Emerson CEO Lal Karsanbhai has been named to pharmaceutical giant Merck's board of directors, effective Jan. 1.

The custom-built former headquarters of a Fortune 1000 company is up for sale, now that the company has relocated.

A growing St. Louis-area metal fabrication company that recently expanded has been acquired by a Kansas City business.

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Trevor Hawkins, an attorney at Legal Aid of Arkansas, remembers how busy his job got when the state for a time imposed work requirements on Medicaid recipients: His office was swamped with frantic phone calls from people who said they couldn’t comply with the new rule because they weren’t healthy enough to work or had to care for sick relatives. “A whole heap of folks, after a month or two, started getting notices saying, ‘Hey, you’re out of compliance, and you’re going to lose your…

The Belleville-based Social Security Disability Insurance claim assistance company, which also provides other services for veterans and people with disabilities, has promoted a new president.

St. Louis lawmakers on Friday passed legislation to establish another downtown St. Louis special taxing district.

The Creve Coeur-based firm said the two new partners have contributed to the firm’s recent growth, respectively on the business and adviser development side and on the operations side.

An E. coli outbreak linked to events hosted by a catering company has risen to 106 cases as of Wednesday, with two of those people developing a rare but serious complication, health officials said. The events under investigation by the St. Louis County Health Department include two school band events, two funerals, and a veterans event, all catered by Andre's Banquets and Catering between Nov. 6-9. More than half of the cases are connected with Rockwood Summit High School. The health department…

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The dinner was great, and I thought, what a terrific idea and execution of the most welcoming restaurant for road-weary travelers.

A St. Louis-based tech firm that developed an app that allows users to control doors from their smartphones said the executive who was slated to take over as CEO is stepping down.