Missouri Chapter 537 — Torts and Actions for Damages
- § 537.010. — Action for damages to property to survive regardless of death of either party.
- § 537.020. — Action for personal injury or death to survive regardless of death of either party.
- § 537.021. — Action for damages--personal representative to maintain or defend --exception--action against liability insurer, procedure.
- § 537.030. — Section 537.010 not to extend to what action.
- § 537.035. — Peer review committees--composition, purpose--immunity from civil liability, who, when--disclosure of records prohibited, exceptions--testimony before, discovery and admissibility, limitations.
- § 537.037. — Emergency care, no civil liability, exceptions (Good Samaritan law).
- § 537.040. — Married woman liable alone for her torts.
- § 537.045. — Parent or guardian liable for damages by minor, when, limitation --minor's liability--work accepted in lieu of payment.
- § 537.046. — Childhood sexual abuse, injury or illness defined--action for damages may be brought, when.
- § 537.050. — Civil action not merged in criminal prosecution.
- § 537.053. — Sale of alcoholic beverage may be proximate cause of personal injuries or death--requirements--(dram shop law).
- § 537.060. — Contribution between tort-feasors--release of one or more, effect.
- § 537.065. — Claimant and tort-feasor may contract to limit recovery to specified assets or insurance contract--effect.
- § 537.067. — Joint and several liability of defendants in tort actions, allocation of responsibility for judgment--defendants several liability for punitive damages.
- § 537.068. — Court may enter remittitur order or increase jury award, when.
- § 537.069. — Provisions of certain laws applicable to all causes of action.
- § 537.080. — Action for wrongful death--who may sue--limitation.
- § 537.085. — Defenses to wrongful death action.
- § 537.090. — Damages to be determined by jury--factors to be considered.
- § 537.095. — Joinder of parties not required, when, effect on recovery--plaintiff ad litem, recovery, distribution.
- § 537.100. — Limitation of action--effect of absence of defendant and nonsuit.
- § 537.105. — Radio station not liable for defamation, when.
- § 537.110. — What words are actionable.
- § 537.115. — Food donation or distribution, limited liability, when.
- § 537.117. — Officers or members of governing bodies of certain corporations, charities, organizations or clubs immune from personal liability for official acts, exceptions.
- § 537.118. — Volunteers, limited personal liability, certain organizations and government entities, exceptions.
- § 537.120. — Physician not liable for restraint of mentally incapacitated persons.
- § 537.125. — Shoplifting--detention of suspect by merchant--liability presumption.
- § 537.130. — Liability for damages caused by riotous assemblage.
- § 537.165. — Political subdivisions to defend tort actions against firemen involving use of motor vehicles--extent of liability.
- § 537.170. — Waiver of rights to damages by blind employee.
- § 537.180. — Negligence of fellow servant no defense in action by employee against railroad or mine.
- § 537.190. — Fellow servant defined.
- § 537.200. — Vice-principals defined.
- § 537.210. — Contracts limiting liability invalid.
- § 537.220. — Construction and application of sections 537.180 to 537.210.
- § 537.230. — Action against mining operator for wrongful death of employee--amount --limitation.
- § 537.240. — Railroads and railroad corporation or companies--terms construed.
- § 537.250. — Liability of common carrier for loss or damage to property transported --who may be joined as defendants.
- § 537.260. — Railroad liable for killing stock--irrespective of negligence unless road is fenced.
- § 537.270. — Insufficient fence on railroad--stock killed--damages.
- § 537.280. — Injury to stock by railroad--agreed damages--payment, when.
- § 537.290. — Failure to pay agreed damages--double damages.
- § 537.294. — Firearm ranges defined--not to be deemed a nuisance, when--immunity from criminal liability for noise of normal use--requirement.
- § 537.295. — Agricultural operation not to be deemed a nuisance, when--exceptions --costs.
- § 537.297. — Transfer of anhydrous ammonia, tamperer assumes risk--owners immune from liability and suit, when.
- § 537.300. — Penalty for driving away of others' stock by drovers.
- § 537.310. — Proceedings under section 537.300.
- § 537.320. — Judgment--execution.
- § 537.325. — Definitions--liability for equine activities, limitations, exceptions--signs required, contents.
- § 537.327. — Paddlesport activities--definitions--immunity from liability, when--exemptions--posting of signs required, content.
- § 537.330. — Malicious trespass--to personalty--double damages--issuance of attachment, when.
- § 537.340. — Trespass on realty--treble damages recoverable, when.
- § 537.345. — Definitions for sections 537.345 to 537.347.
- § 537.346. — Landowner owes no duty of care to persons entering without fee to keep land safe for recreational use.
- § 537.347. — Landowner directly or indirectly invites or permits persons on land for recreation, effect.
- § 537.348. — Landowner liable, when--definitions.
- § 537.349. — Liability of landowner to trespasser, immunity where trespasser under influence of drugs or alcohol--limitations.
- § 537.350. — Double damages for throwing down gates and fences--exception.
- § 537.353. — Liability for damage or destruction of field crop products, when --court costs awarded, when.
- § 537.360. — Single damages only recoverable, when.
- § 537.370. — Penalties, how recovered.
- § 537.380. — Fires from railroad engines--damages.
- § 537.400. — Double damages for willful fires.
- § 537.410. — Damages for backwater caused by boom across stream--attorney's fee.
- § 537.420. — Tenant for life or years liable for treble damages for waste.
- § 537.430. — Who may sue.
- § 537.440. — Heirs may sue for waste, when.
- § 537.450. — Tenant holding land after having aliened it liable for waste.
- § 537.460. — Tenants liable to cotenants, when.
- § 537.470. — Conservators, liable for waste, when.
- § 537.480. — What damages recovered for waste.
- § 537.490. — Treble damages if waste was wantonly committed.
- § 537.500. — Where waste committed pending suit, receiver may take possession.
- § 537.510. — Actions for waste, brought against whom.
- § 537.520. — Interest as part of damages.
- § 537.523. — Institutional vandalism, civil actions for damages or injunction --attorney fees and costs.
- § 537.524. — Injunction and damages for interference with lawful hunting and trapping.
- § 537.525. — Tampering with computer data, computer equipment, or computer users --damages--attorney fees, certain expenses, awarded when.
- § 537.528. — Actions for damages for conduct or speech at public hearings and meetings to be considered on expedited basis--procedural issues.
- § 537.550. — Limitation on liability for injury or death at fairs or festivals--signs to be posted, content.
- § 537.595. — Citation--definitions--immunity from liability for claims relating to weight gain or obesity, when, exceptions--petition, contents--effective date.
- § 537.600. — Sovereign immunity in effect--exceptions.
- § 537.610. — Liability insurance for tort claims may be purchased by whom --limitation on waiver of immunity--maximum amount payable for claims out of single occurrence--exception--apportionment of settlements --inflation--penalties.
- § 537.615. — Liability of state increase to apply, when.
- § 537.620. — Political subdivisions may jointly create entity to provide insurance.
- § 537.625. — Procedure to form insurance entity.
- § 537.630. — Director of insurance to approve articles and issue license.
- § 537.635. — Entity to be treated as corporation--not to produce profit--may pay dividends, when.
- § 537.640. — Director of insurance to examine--renewal license fee--amendments to articles.
- § 537.645. — Director of insurance may take charge of entity, when.
- § 537.650. — Premium tax not required.
- § 537.675. — Tort victims' compensation fund established--definitions --notification of punitive damage award to attorney general, lien for deposit into fund--legal services for low-income people fund established.
- § 537.678. — Percentage of fund to be used to assist uncompensated tort victims --filing of claims, procedure.
- § 537.681. — Eligibility requirements--waiver of certain requirements, when --incarcerated victim, procedure.
- § 537.684. — Filing of a claim, determining compensation, procedure--payment of claims.
- § 537.687. — Medical records submitted, when--violation, penalty.
- § 537.690. — Petition for review of a decision by the division filed with commission--judicial review permitted, when.
- § 537.693. — Right of subrogation, payment of a claim--division lien on any compensation received by claimant--rulemaking authority.
- § 537.700. — Public entity risk management fund established--definitions--who may participate.
- § 537.705. — Effect of participation in fund--use of funds, limits--board of trustees, duties--staff--board to be notified of claims, when--board may contract with independent insurance agents.
- § 537.710. — Board of trustees established--members, appointment, qualifications, terms, liability limited.
- § 537.715. — Board of trustees--officers.
- § 537.720. — Board, meetings--quorum--expenses.
- § 537.725. — Board--records--reports--principal office--seal.
- § 537.730. — Board--duties--rulemaking authority--subpoena power--prohibited activities.
- § 537.735. — Fund account, how maintained.
- § 537.740. — Insufficient contributions, assessment, abatement, deferral --retroactive application.
- § 537.745. — Construction of provisions.
- § 537.750. — Exhaustion of fund, claims to be prorated.
- § 537.755. — Fund money not available for certain purposes, exception.
- § 537.756. — Maximum amount payable from fund--how calculated.
- § 537.760. — Products liability claim defined.
- § 537.762. — Motion to dismiss, defendant whose only liability is as seller in stream of commerce requirements, procedure--order of dismissal to be interlocutory.
- § 537.764. — State of the art, defined--affirmative defense in cases of strict liability for failure to warn--burden of proof on party asserting defense--action for negligence, when.
- § 537.765. — Contributory fault as complete bar to plaintiff's recovery abolished --doctrine of comparative fault to apply--fault of plaintiff an affirmative defense to diminish damages--fault defined.