Category: Car Accidents
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Important Steps to Preserve Your Missouri Car Accident Claim [Part II]
This is Part II of our blog providing guidance to those involved in Missouri car accidents, which is intended to assist injury victims in avoiding conduct that may compromise their personal injury lawsuit. While most people are shaken emotionally during a collision, it can be critically important to keep one’s head and focus on certain…
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Important Steps to Preserve Your Missouri Car Accident Claim [Part I]
If you are involved in a motor vehicle collision while driving in Missouri, you may have a difficult time concentrating on preserving evidence and protecting your liability claim because you are stressed out and suffering from debilitating pain. However, the conduct of an auto accident victim in the immediate aftermath a collision can have a…
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Avoiding Insurance Company Traps and Unfair Tactics in Missouri Auto Accident Cases
If you are injured by a driver who fails to comply with traffic safety rules, you may suffer permanent life altering injuries. Assuming your auto collision is caused by an insured driver, the insurance carrier of the negligent driver will usually be responsible for covering the costs associated with your accident. The other driver’s insurance…
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Drivers Committing DUI Continue to Disrupt the Lives of Many Missouri Families
While drunken driving car accident fatalities have declined in recent years, intoxicated driver continue to claim the lives of approximately 30, 000 vehicle occupants annually while causing serious injury to millions more. The state and federal government have devoted enormous resources to preventing drunken driving in the form of increased patrols, sobriety checkpoints, tougher DUI…
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Missouri Imposes Limited Cell Phone Restrictions on Drivers despite Dangers
While few Missouri drivers would advocate eliminating DUI laws, Missouri has one of the most permissive policies in the U.S. when it comes to the dangerous conduct of distracted driving. It was at about this time last year that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended that Congress enact a national ban on all use…
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How “Visibly Intoxicated” Is Proven in Dram Shop Cases
If you were driving home one night and were hit by a drunk driver, whom would you sue? Some people who were injured by a drunk driver are choosing to sue the bar or restaurant that served the drunk driver alcohol. These cases are called “Dram Shop” cases. Injured parties sue the bar because they…
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Proving Negligence in a Car-Pedestrian Accident
Pedestrians are among the very most vulnerable travelers on our American roads. Unlike those who are driving by in an automobile, pedestrians have neither a steel cage around their body nor safety restraints to protect them from injury. The simple laws of physics dictate that when a pedestrian is struck by an automobile there will…
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Missouri Auto Accident Lawyers Discuss New Technology to Prevent Distracted Driving Dangers?
Even more drivers engage in distracted driving practices than drunk driving because it is so easy to glance at one’s cell phone and read a text message. The U.S. Department of Transportation has characterized the surge in cell phone related distracted driving as an epidemic. Many states including Kansas have passed distracted driving laws in…
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Avoiding Liability for Employee’s Cell Phone Related Accidents
Our law firm routinely receives calls from Kansas business owners inquiring about their liability for serious auto accidents where their employee is at-fault while engaged in company business. Juries throughout the country have been awarding motor vehicle accident victims massive judgments in cases where an employee causes catastrophic injuries or wrongful death in auto accidents…
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Kansas City Car Accident Attorney Discusses The Growing Risk of Texting While Driving in Kansas City
The number of distracted driving accidents in Kansas City has been on the rise and has reached almost epidemic proportions. A study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute concluded that distracted drivers are 23 times more likely to be involved in car accidents or near accidents than undistracted drivers. Although thousands of people are injured…