Tag: Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Ask “Do You Know Your Limits?”
Life is a lot about the choices we make. The goal, of course, is to try to make more good choices than bad, but sometimes it is difficult to tell the two apart. Life can be tricky like that. Take, for example, car insurance. You may have had the same policy for the last five…
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Warn of the Hidden Dangers of Daylight Saving Time
Twice a year, a crazy thing happens across the country—we adjust the clocks by one hour. In the spring of the year the clocks “spring ahead” one hour and then in the fall of the year, the clocks “fall back” one hour. For more than a hundred years, the practice of daylight saving time…
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Discuss the Importance of Nursing Home Monitoring
When you place your loved one into a nursing home, you have certain expectations. Most importantly, you expect the nursing home owners, administrators, and staff will provide your loved one with the highest standard of care. You expect that the facility you select will have well-trained staff and procedures in place so that nothing bad…
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Caution Motorists to Take Heed this Travel Season
Did you know that the time between Thanksgiving and New Years Day is one of the peak times for roadway accidents? A not so great fact if “I’ll be home for Christmas” is one of your goals. To keep you and your fellow travelers safe during your holiday and New Year’s travels, take a moment…
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Share Three Top Tips for Safe Highway Holiday Travel
Depending on where you live and where you work, highway driving may not be a daily occurrence for you. Often most of our day to day trips keep us on the same local streets and roads. However, holiday travel is different and often takes you on roads that you may not have traveled for…
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Share Tips to Stay Alert as Part of Drowsy Driving Prevention Week
If you have ever gotten behind the wheel, feeling not quite so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, you are not alone. The National Sleep Foundation (“Sleep Foundation”) found that around 60 percent of drivers report having driven while drowsy. A drowsy driver puts not only him or herself in danger but also puts everyone else on the…
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Explain Compensatory Damages
Whenever someone is involved in an accident, there are what attorneys refer to as damages. Simply put, damages are losses that the at-fault party (could be a person or an entity) must compensate the injured party for. The purpose of damages is to put the injured party back in the same position he or she…
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Outline The Essential Steps To Take If Hit By A Drunk Driver
Fortunately, only a small percentage of Americans will ever be involved in an accident with a drunk driver. However, the likelihood is still higher than most of us would like it to be. The important thing to know if you do find yourself in that situation is how to protect yourself. The steps taken in…
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Provide Insight into Catastrophic Injury Cases
When a person is involved in a major accident, their whole world changes. For some accident victims, the change is temporary, and life begins to return to normal after a relatively short period. It may take weeks or months, or in some cases a year, but after time their lives, for the most part, are…
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Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys Ask Motorists “Is Your Behavior Behind the Wheel Putting You at Risk?”
In the United States, roadway crashes are a major cause of injuries and deaths. The saddest part about this fact is that most of the accidents that happen every year are caused by human error. While “to err may be human,” (Alexander Pope, “Essay on Criticism”) it does not mean that all errors are unavoidable.…