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In 2013 Matthew Rossiter was named one of the Top 50 Lawyers in St. Louis by Super Lawyers.

On October 4, 2013, Matthew Rossiter obtained a favorable jury verdict for their clients overturning three amendments to a trust with assets valued at approximately $1.9 million.  The plaintiffs in this case were a brother and sister from Troy, Missouri, who were completely cut out of their grandmother’s revocable trust following their own father’s death.  The grandmother’s trust assets included a substantial amount of farm acreage as well as monetary assets.  As a result of three amendments to the grandmother’s trust, all of her assets went to her one remaining son, who is the plaintiffs’ uncle.

Matthew Rossiter filed suit on behalf of the plaintiffs against their uncle seeking to have the three trust amendments thrown out and have their clients returned as one-half beneficiaries under the trust.  After a four day jury trial in Lincoln County, Missouri, the jury returned a verdict throwing out all three of the trust amendments, and returning the plaintiffs to their position as trust beneficiaries.

October, 2013 – Jamie Boock settles wrongful death nursing home case for $650,000.00 in rural Missouri.  In this case the plaintiffs asserted that their loved one died when she fell and broke her neck after being allowed to use a restroom unassisted.

On August 1, 2013 after a four day jury trial, Jamie Boock obtained a jury verdict in the amount of $525,000 for their client in a medical malpractice case filed in Franklin County, Missouri.  The plaintiff was a woman who suffered from Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis as a result of an allergic reaction to the drug Lamictal.  Plaintiff suffered a severe reaction in which she lost 98% of her skin and was hospitalized for over three weeks.

Rossiter & Boock alleged that plaintiff’s primary care provider was negligent because she should have told plaintiff to stop taking Lamictal when plaintiff called in complaining of a rash.  Plaintiff was not taken off Lamictal until ten days after she first complained of the rash, and as a result, she suffered the severe drug reaction.  The defendant denied all liability and also claimed that there was no proof that the Lamictal caused plaintiff’s injuries.

After a four day trial and seven hours of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $525,000.

On March 15, 2013, Rossiter & Boock moved to a new location at 124 Gay Avenue, St. Louis (Clayton), Missouri 63105

On February 20, 2013, Matthew Rossiter moderated the Eighth Annual Fiduciary Litigation Seminar, and also presented “Terminating Trusts and Making Final Distribution Without Getting Sued.”

On October 19, 2012, Jamie Boock received the Lon O. Hocker Trial Lawyer Award by the Missouri Bar Foundation.

On August 16, 2012, Nancy K. Troutman joined Rossiter & Boock, LLC as an associate attorney. Nancy focuses her practice on estate planning and probate administration.

On July 12 & 13, 2012, Matthew Rossiter attended a seminar entitled “Representing Estate and Trust Beneficiaries and Fiduciaries,” sponsored by the American Legal institute and the American Bar Association, in San Francisco, California.

On February 22, 2012, Matthew Rossiter moderated the Seventh Annual Fiduciary Litigation Seminar, and also presented the Annual Update on the Law.