Tonya Musskopf said she is “disgusted” by the settlement reached by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, which oversees the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), in the wrongful death lawsuit of her pregnant daughter and another MoDOT employee.
In an order and judgment dated Sept. 6, all parties agreed that MoDOT would pay $505,020 to Musskopf, Austin Jarvis and Cagle LLC to avoid a jury trial in the lawsuit filed after Kaitlyn Anderson of De Soto and James W. Brooks of St. Louis were killed in an accident in November 2021, court records show.
Anderson, who was 25, was six-months pregnant with Jaxx Jarvis when she died. Musskopf, Anderson’s mother, and Jarvis, Jaxx’s father, filed the wrongful death lawsuit in May 2022…