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  • Negligent Entrustment
    Negligent Entrustment

    Sometimes personal injury accidents are caused by someone who shouldn't be using a certain product or driving a car in the first place. For example, a car accident might be caused by someone who ...

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  • Unpaid Medical Bills
    Unpaid Medical Bills

    A common concern of my personal injury victims is whether they will owe anything for their medical bills when their case is over. The answer depends on whether the health care provider or health ...

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  • Police Reports and Car Crashes
    Police Reports and Car Crashes

    One of the most important pieces of evidence in car accident cases is the police report. It provides a number of key facts about how an accident happened and who was involved. It is also the ...

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  • School Immunity
    School Immunity

    As a subdivision of the state, public schools in Missouri have sovereign immunity. This means they can't be sued in personal injury cases. However, as with many rules in the law, there are exceptions. ...

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  • How Long Will My Case Take?
    How Long Will My Case Take?

    One of the most pressing concerns my personal injury clients often have is how long their case will take. To give a very lawyerly response, it depends. If personal injury cases are not able to settle, ...

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  • Black Boxes in Cars
    Black Boxes in Cars

    Like airplanes, most modern cars have "black boxes" that record information prior to an accident. These devices, called Event Data Recorders, are crash resistant and store various types of data from ...

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  • Kansas City Leash Laws Apply to Chimpanzees
    Kansas City Leash Laws Apply to Chimpanzees

    A 300-pound chimpanzee that escaped from its cage and ran amok made headlines recently in Kansas City. Had the chimpanzee injured someone, that person would have undoubtedly had a personal injury case ...

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  • The Contingent Fee and How it Benefits You
    The Contingent Fee and How it Benefits You

    As a Kansas City personal injury attorney, the entirety of my practice is contingency cases. Generally speaking, this is where my fee is a percentage of the money I recover for you at the end of your ...

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  • Gap in Treatment
    Gap in Treatment

    One of the most frequently used reasons by insurance companies to deny or shortchange personal injury claims is a gap in treatment. This is when there's a long period of time between an accident and ...

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  • Case Value: An Overview
    Case Value: An Overview

    As a Kansas City personal injury attorney, one of the most common questions I hear is, "What is my case worth?" There are too many factors to list in one blog, but I can provide an overview. Generally ...

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  • The Settlement Transaction
    The Settlement Transaction

    Last week I wrote about the basics of settlement negotiation. This week I'd like to talk about the transaction itself. What do you get when you settle a case and what do you give in exchange? The most ...

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  • Settlement Negotiation
    Settlement Negotiation

    The vast majority of personal injury cases settle before trial. If you have a personal injury case, you should therefore know how the settlement process works. Settlement negotiation is just that; a ...

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  • Be Careful What You Share on Facebook & MySpace
    Be Careful What You Share on Facebook & MySpace

    I recently learned from a colleague that some insurance defense firms are now accessing clients' Facebook and other social networking profiles to try and dig up information that can be used against ...

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  • Big Brother is Watching
    Big Brother is Watching

    Insurance companies have databases with information on people who have had prior insurance claims. They use these databases, called claims indexes, when someone has been hurt in a personal injury ...

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  • Texting While Driving, Part Two
    Texting While Driving, Part Two

    I read an interesting article in law journal today about company cell phone use motor vehicle accidents and want to share it with you. But first, a little background. Under a legal theory called ...

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  • 911 Recordings
    911 Recordings

    An often overlooked piece of evidence in car accident cases or other personal injury cases is recordings from 911 calls. Many lawyers don't realize that these recordings are readily available and ...

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  • Seatbelts
    Seatbelts

    Not wearing a seatbelt is surprisingly common. When you are in a car accident in Kansas City as a result of someone else's fault, but you are not wearing a seatbelt, there will be legal consequences ...

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  • Personal Injury: More Than Meets the Eye
    Personal Injury: More Than Meets the Eye

    Just like one of my favorite toys growing up, often times in a personal injury case there is more than meets the eye. In most cases there is a bit of information that can turn a good case into a great ...

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  • A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
    A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

    There is no better way to prove a case than with pictures and video footage. Whether you were injured in a car accident, trucking accident, slip and fall, or have suffered any other kind of personal ...

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  • Comparative Fault
    Comparative Fault

    As a Kansas City personal injury attorney, I come across comparative fault many times. Comparative fault is when you are partly to blame for an accident. It reduces your compensation by however much ...

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  • Donating to Charities
    Donating to Charities

    As a Kansas City personal injury attorney, I recently enacted a firm-wide policy of donating 5% of every fee to charity. Giving is important to me and this commitment is something I feel strongly ...

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  • Welcome to our Kansas City Personal Injury Law Blog
    Welcome to our Kansas City Personal Injury Law Blog

    We are pleased to announce the launch of our new personal injury law blog, with an RSS feed available.

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