Recent Posts in motor vehicle accident Category
Posted on Feb 3, 2012 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
As the weather shifts from relatively mild and dry to wet and potentially cold, take extra care while out and about this weekend. At this point, it appears that it will likely rain through today and ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
This morning, around 6:55 a.m., a child was hit by a vehicle in Independence, Missouri. While the extent of the injuries is currently still unknown, we do know that the child was rushed to ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
On Saturday, a young woman was hit, walking along Raytown Road. The driver of the SUV left the scene of the accident, which happened at about 11:25 that night. The victim of the accident has sustained ...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Yesterday, with the weather being less than ideal, many who commute to work in the Kansas City metro noticed that there were significant delays due to accidents and problematic road conditions. While ...
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Posted on Nov 26, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Under Missouri law, if you have auto liability coverage than you also have, at a minimum, $25,000 in Missouri uninsured motorist coverage. An uninsured motorist is a driver with no insurance, but also ...
Continue reading "Missouri uninsured motorist insurance for falling objects" »
Posted on Nov 10, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Missouri auto accidents are responsible for thousands of neck injuries every year. Neck injuries are one of the most common injuries sustained in an automobile accident. When seated in an automobile, ...
Continue reading "Anatomy of neck injuries from auto accidents" »
Posted on Nov 9, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Automobile tort defendant not entitled to a reduction of judgment amount under § 537.060 for settlement paid by doctor on malpractice claim for treating injuries arising out the same accident. ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
A website that provides car insurance rates has conducted a survey of which U.S. states have the safest and most dangerous roadways. The results are not good for Missouri residents; the study claims ...
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Posted on Nov 1, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
If you are injured in a car accident in Missouri and another driver was at fault, you are entitled to compensation. But what happens if you were not wearing your seat belt at the time of the accident, ...
Continue reading "Missouri "Seat Belt Defense" in auto accident cases" »
Posted on Oct 31, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Right-of-way at intersections is commonly misunderstood and one of the legal issues of who is at fault when dealing with bicycle accident cases. More accidents occur at intersections not monitored by ...
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Posted on Oct 23, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
In a new case, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, held that an insurer that had paid its policy limits in full settlement of one claim arising from an incident was no longer required to ...
Continue reading "Limits on an insurer's duty to provide legal defense after settlement" »
Posted on Oct 22, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Have you ever been on a bike or a motorcycle and encountered a red light that would not change for an unreasonable amount of time? That is because many traffic signals are triggered by pressure ...
Continue reading "Affirmative defense to running red lights in Missouri" »
Posted on Oct 15, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Under Missouri Statute § 537.053 a Dram Shop case has three main elements to the cause of action: 1. The claim must be brought (1) "by or on behalf of any person who has suffered personal ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Lets say you are involved in a Missouri auto accident with injuries and your health insurance, that you pay for, covers your medical expenses. Can that heath insurer now demand you pay them back from ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
A Missouri personal injury lawyer must prove liability and damages to succeed in a personal injury claim. Liability is whether or not the negligent driver violated a duty, i.e. drove too fast, failed ...
Continue reading "Proving causation in auto accident cases" »
Posted on Oct 4, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
In Missouri and throughout the country ERISA Liens are becoming more complicated and more common in car accident and other personal injury settlements. Essentially, if you are injured in a car ...
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Posted on Oct 1, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Accident victims Clarence Everett Wood and Mary Wood won a $1.1 million dollar judgment in Missouri drunk driving car accident lawsuit. The plaintiffs sued Huey E. Crocker for causing a Missouri front ...
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Posted on Sep 30, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
People often feel that contacting a lawyer after an accident can be intimidating. Many people either don't want to look like they lack knowledge and need help, or they don't want to appear to ...
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Posted on Sep 26, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Since the statutory changes in 2005 requiring most Missouri personal injury actions to be brought in the county where the initial injury or negligent act occurred, there has been some confusion ...
Continue reading "Proper Venue for Uninsured Motorist ("UM") Claims" »
Posted on Sep 22, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
The heart of most personal injury claims, especially clear liability motor vehicle accidents, is damages. Damages being economic and non-economic; Economic damage is the amount of money required to ...
Continue reading "Absence of injury to passengers: proof of lack of injury?" »
Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Court holds uninsured motorist exclusion unenforceable against injured party After a crash in Missouri caused by a driver who left the scene, an insured sought uninsured motorist coverage under the ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
"Dram Shop" cases are drunk driving injury cases pursued by the injured party, or their surviving family as a wrongful death claim, against the bar or restaurant that may have over served ...
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Posted on Sep 12, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
Missouri Bicycle Requirements In Missouri, bicycles and motorized bicycles may ride on any street except travel lanes of interstate highways or where prevented by a local law. (Motorized bicycles must ...
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Posted on Sep 6, 2011 By Kansas City Personal Injury Attorney
New Kansas law makes texting while driving a punishable offense. H Sub for SB 300 prohibits a person who is operating a motor vehicle on a public road from texting – using a wireless ...
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