Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages
- Section 537.010 - Action for damages to property to survive regardless of death of either party
- Section 537.020 - Action for personal injury or death to survive regardless of death of either party
- Section 537.021 - Action for damages - personal representative to maintain or defend - exception - action against liability insurer, procedure
- Section 537.030 - Section 537.010 not to extend to what action
- Section 537.033 - Design professionals - peer review process, requirements
- Section 537.035 - Peer review committees - composition, purpose - immunity from civil liability, who, when - disclosure of records prohibited, exceptions - testimony before, discovery and admissibility, limitations
- Section 537.037 - Emergency care, no civil liability, exceptions (Good Samaritan law)
- Section 537.045 - Parent or guardian liable for damages by minor, when, limitation - minor's liability - work accepted in lieu of payment
- Section 537.046 - Childhood sexual abuse, injury or illness defined - action for damages may be brought, when
- Section 537.047 - Civil action for damages authorized, sexual and pornographic offenses involving a minor - statute of limitations
- Section 537.050 - Civil action not merged in criminal prosecution
- Section 537.053 - Sale of alcoholic beverage may be proximate cause of personal injuries or death - requirements - (dram shop law)
- Section 537.055 - Operation of a motorcycle not evidence of comparative negligence
- Section 537.058 - Personal injury, bodily injury, or wrongful death, time-limited demand to settle, requirements
- Section 537.060 - Contribution between tort-feasors - release of one or more, effect
- Section 537.065 - Claimant and tort-feasor may contract to limit recovery to specified assets or insurance contract, when - procedure - applicability to covenant not to execute, requirements - insurer defined
- Section 537.067 - Joint and several liability of defendants in tort actions, allocation of responsibility for judgment - defendants several liability for punitive damages
- Section 537.068 - Court may enter remittitur order or increase jury award, when
- Section 537.069 - Provisions of certain laws applicable to all causes of action
- Section 537.080 - Action for wrongful death - who may sue - limitation
- Section 537.085 - Defenses to wrongful death action
- Section 537.090 - Damages to be determined by jury - factors to be considered
- Section 537.095 - Joinder of parties not required, when, effect on recovery - plaintiff ad litem, recovery, distribution
- Section 537.100 - Limitation of action - effect of absence of defendant and nonsuit
- Section 537.105 - Radio station not liable for defamation, when
- Section 537.110 - What words are actionable
- Section 537.115 - Food donation or distribution, limited liability, when
- Section 537.117 - Officers or members of governing bodies of certain corporations, charities, organizations or clubs immune from personal liability for official acts, exceptions
- Section 537.118 - Volunteers, limited personal liability, certain organizations and government entities, exceptions
- Section 537.120 - Physician not liable for restraint of mentally incapacitated persons
- Section 537.123 - Civil action for damages for passing bad checks, only original holder may bring action - limitations - notice requirements - payroll checks, action to be against employer
- Section 537.125 - Shoplifting - detention of suspect by merchant - liability presumption
- Section 537.127 - Stealing, civil liability - parent or guardian civilly liable for minor's stealing - conversion of shopping carts, penalty
- Section 537.130 - Liability for damages caused by riotous assemblage
- Section 537.165 - Political subdivisions to defend tort actions against firemen involving use of motor vehicles - extent of liability
- Section 537.170 - Waiver of rights to damages by blind employee
- Section 537.180 - Negligence of fellow servant no defense in action by employee against railroad or mine
- Section 537.190 - Fellow servant defined
- Section 537.200 - Vice-principals defined
- Section 537.210 - Contracts limiting liability invalid
- Section 537.220 - Construction and application of sections 537.180 to 537.210
- Section 537.230 - Action against mining operator for wrongful death of employee - amount - limitation
- Section 537.240 - Railroads and railroad corporation or companies - terms construed
- Section 537.250 - Liability of common carrier for loss or damage to property transported - who may be joined as defendants
- Section 537.260 - Railroad liable for killing stock - irrespective of negligence unless road is fenced
- Section 537.270 - Insufficient fence on railroad - stock killed - damages
- Section 537.280 - Injury to stock by railroad - agreed damages - payment, when
- Section 537.290 - Failure to pay agreed damages - double damages
- Section 537.294 - Firearm ranges - definitions - not to be deemed a nuisance, when - immunity from civil and criminal liability, when
- Section 537.295 - Agricultural operation not to be deemed a nuisance, when - exceptions - costs
- Section 537.296 - Private nuisance - definitions - exclusive compensatory damages for agricultural nuisances, subsequent actions, effect of - standing - action in excess of one million dollars, court or jury shall visit property - copy of final judgment to be filed
- Section 537.297 - Transfer of anhydrous ammonia, tamperer assumes risk - owners immune from liability and suit, when
- Section 537.300 - Penalty for driving away of others' stock by drovers
- Section 537.310 - Proceedings under section 537.300
- Section 537.320 - Judgment - execution
- Section 537.325 - Definitions - liability for equine activities, limitations, exceptions - signs required, contents
- Section 537.327 - Paddlesport activities - definitions - immunity from liability, when - exemptions - posting of signs required, content
- Section 537.328 - Private campgrounds, immunity from liability for inherent risks of camping - liability, when - signage
- Section 537.330 - Malicious trespass - to personalty - double damages - issuance of attachment, when
- Section 537.340 - Trespass on realty - treble damages recoverable, when - rules for trimming, removing, and controlling trees
- Section 537.345 - Definitions for sections 537.345 to 537.347 and 537.351
- Section 537.346 - Landowner owes no duty of care to persons entering without fee to keep land safe for recreational use - immunity from liability for injuries of trespasser on land adjacent to park or trail
- Section 537.347 - Landowner directly or indirectly invites or permits persons on land for recreation or wildlife management, effect
- Section 537.348 - Landowner liable, when - definitions
- Section 537.349 - Liability of landowner to trespasser, immunity where trespasser under influence of drugs or alcohol - limitations
- Section 537.350 - Double damages for throwing down gates and fences - exception
- Section 537.351 - Trespassers, no duty of care by owners, exception - liability for physical injury or death, when
- Section 537.353 - Liability for damage or destruction of field crop products, when - court costs awarded, when
- Section 537.354 - Prescribed burning act - definitions - immunity from liability, when - inapplicability, when
- Section 537.355 - Private property, permission by owner to hunt, fish, or recreate, limitation on privilege
- Section 537.360 - Single damages only recoverable, when
- Section 537.370 - Penalties, how recovered
- Section 537.380 - Fires from railroad engines - damages
- Section 537.400 - Double damages for willful fires
- Section 537.410 - Damages for backwater caused by boom across stream - attorney's fee
- Section 537.420 - Tenant for life or years liable for treble damages for waste
- Section 537.430 - Who may sue
- Section 537.440 - Heirs may sue for waste, when
- Section 537.450 - Tenant holding land after having aliened it liable for waste
- Section 537.460 - Tenants liable to cotenants, when
- Section 537.470 - Conservators, liable for waste, when
- Section 537.480 - What damages recovered for waste
- Section 537.490 - Treble damages if waste was wantonly committed
- Section 537.500 - Where waste committed pending suit, receiver may take possession
- Section 537.510 - Actions for waste, brought against whom
- Section 537.520 - Interest as part of damages
- Section 537.523 - Institutional vandalism, civil actions for damages or injunction - attorney fees and costs
- Section 537.524 - Injunction and damages for interference with lawful hunting and trapping
- Section 537.525 - Tampering with computer data, computer equipment, or computer users - damages - attorney fees, certain expenses, awarded when
- Section 537.528 - Actions for damages for conduct or speech at public hearings and meetings to be considered on expedited basis - procedural issues
- Section 537.550 - Limitation on liability for injury or death at fairs or festivals - signs to be posted, content
- Section 537.555 - No civil liability for forcible entry into a vehicle for purpose of removing an unsupervised minor, when
- COMMONSENSE CONSUMPTION ACT (§ 537.595)
- SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY (§§ 537.600 — 537.650)
- TORT VICTIMS' COMPENSATION FUND (§§ 537.675 — 537.693)
- RISK MANAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES (§§ 537.700 — 537.756)
- PRODUCTS LIABILITY (§§ 537.760 — 537.765)
- BUSINESS PREMISES SAFETY ACT (§§ 537.785 — 537.787)
- AGRITOURISM PROMOTION (§§ 537.850 — 537.859)
- COVID-19 (§§ 537.1000 — 537.1035)