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  • Independent Medical Evaluations
    Independent Medical Evaluations

    In most workers' compensation cases and in some personal injury cases, injured plaintiffs will undergo independent medical evaluations to determine various issues, including the extent of the ...

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  • Safety Equipment in Workers Compensation Claims
    Safety Equipment in Workers Compensation Claims

    There is a law within Missouri's workers' compensation statutes that gives employees a penalty in their comp claim if they failed to use a required safety device. The law says that if you are injured ...

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  • Attorney Meyerkord Included in the "Best of the Bar for 2012"
    Attorney Meyerkord Included in the "Best of the Bar for 2012"

    Meyerkord & Russell is proud to announce that Attorney Matt Meyerkord was recently selected for inclusion in the Kansas City Business Journal's Best of the Bar for 2012. This will be the second year ...

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  • What a Jury Doesn't Hear
    What a Jury Doesn't Hear

    The end of the road for any personal injury case is a jury trial. Jury trials are risky endeavors and both sides of a lawsuit often make every effort to settle a case without having to have a jury ...

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  • Why Does it Take So Long to Get to Trial?
    Why Does it Take So Long to Get to Trial?

    We make an effort in every personal injury case to settle before trial. But sometimes a case just can’t settle, most often because the negligent party or their insurance company is being unreasonable ...

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  • Tell Your Lawyer the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    Tell Your Lawyer the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    One of the worst things that can happen in any personal injury case is that your lawyer discovers something that you didn’t tell him or her. Whether it be good or bad, the unknown is one of the worst ...

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  • The Difference Between Workers' Compensation and Personal Injury Settlements
    The Difference Between Workers' Compensation and Personal Injury Settlements

    Settling a workers’ compensation claim is unlike settling a personal injury case like a car accident or slip or trip and fall in many ways. Although both generally consist of an agreement by the ...

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  • Remington Firearms May Have a Defective Trigger
    Remington Firearms May Have a Defective Trigger

    NBC recently reported a story about defective triggers in Remington firearms. The defect causes the weapons to discharge when they are dropped or suffer some type of shock; even when the safety is ...

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  • Experts
    Experts

    Sometimes personal injury cases require the use of experts to help prove a certain part of the case. For example, in a medical malpractice case, you need to hire a doctor to say the one you are suing ...

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  • Hiring a Lawyer
    Hiring a Lawyer

    There are many things you should consider when hiring a lawyer for your personal injury case. I'm going to list a few major things here, but this list is by no means exhaustive. This is because the ...

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  • Permanent Total Disability
    Permanent Total Disability

    If you are hurt at work in Missouri and you have a major injury, you may be a candidate for a permanent total disability award in your Missouri workers' compensation claim. Missouri's comp system ...

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  • Your Right to Trial by Jury in Personal Injury Cases is Guaranteed by the Missouri Constitution
    Your Right to Trial by Jury in Personal Injury Cases is Guaranteed by the Missouri Constitution

    Filing a personal injury case in court and trying to a jury is a constitutional right in the State of Missouri. Section 14 of the Bill of Right in the Missouri Constitution says, "That the courts of ...

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  • The Insurer-Insured Privilege - (A Reason to Talk to an Attorney Before You Talk to the Insurance Company)
    The Insurer-Insured Privilege - (A Reason to Talk to an Attorney Before You Talk to the Insurance Company)

    Oftentimes when we get a call about a new case, the potential client has already given a recorded statement to the potential defendant's insurance company. Cooperating with an insurance company is a ...

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  • Gathering Medical Records
    Gathering Medical Records

    Personal injury cases can take a long time. I've blogged about it before, and it's always on my client's minds. One of the reasons why a personal injury case can take so long is because of the time it ...

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  • Why Unelected Judges Are a Good Thing
    Why Unelected Judges Are a Good Thing

    Oftentimes you'll hear politicians rail against unelected judges and that there is a lack of accountability in the judicial system. However, these attacks miss the very purpose of the judiciary, which ...

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  • When Are You Compensated in Personal Injury Cases
    When Are You Compensated in Personal Injury Cases

    Personal injury accidents can exact a heavy financial toll on people and knowing when you can be compensated in your case is an important matter. Motor vehicle accidents, trucking accidents, wrongful ...

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  • Law Suit "Must Haves"- A Compensable Injury
    Law Suit "Must Haves"- A Compensable Injury

    Oftentimes, we receive new client calls where the potential client went through a traumatic, scary, or embarrassing situation, but did not suffer a physical or economic injury as a result of someone ...

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