For KC residents dealing with injury-related legal matters, we provide a free consultation to discuss how we might be able to assist with your potential case.
Our Kansas City personal injury attorneys use decades of experience and a proven track record to analyze your case and tell you whether it makes sense to retain our firm to represent you; Handle the case on your own, or if we should refer you to another firm that is best suited to meet your needs.
Our firm serves Kansas City, Missouri, and all surrounding communities.
Complexities of Dealing with Insurance Companies
You can often benefit from a personal injury attorney because of the complexity of dealing with insurance companies. Insurance companies are extremely sophisticated and may sometimes try to use that to devalue your claim.
The legal process itself is complicated, with lots of pitfalls along the way. Insurance companies can often try to settle cases as cheaply as possible to maximize their profits. As experienced attorneys and trial lawyers, we can help you navigate the legal system.
From as early as right after your accident, all the way to a jury verdict if the case is required to go to trial.
Importance of Legal Representation
In many types of personal injury cases, it's important to have legal representation for accident victims and the families of those who have been killed in accidents.
Types of Cases Our Firm Handles
You'll find that our firm knows how to handle all types of motor vehicle accidents:
- Car Accidents
- Truck Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Commercial Vehicle Accidents
- Bicycle Accidents
- Moped Accidents
We also handled pedestrian accidents and workplace injury cases.
Often, workplace injuries can also involve third-party liability, where another party is not employed by your employer but still has liability.
We handle all forms of wrongful death cases for different types of negligence, including product liability, auto accident, truck accident, motorcycle accident, and premises liability.
Serious and Catastrophic Injury Claims
We've seen all types of injuries in personal injury cases, and our firm only handles serious injury cases. But as we know, some injuries can be much more severe than others.
Over the years, we've handled many catastrophic injury cases, including spine injuries, brain injuries, and severe orthopedic injury cases.
These injuries can lead to serious dysfunction of the body, cognitive problems, and emotional distress. These injuries often require significant medical care, medical attention, and ongoing medical treatment, which can be costly and time-consuming.
How We Build Strong Personal Injury Claims
Our goal in every case is to build a strong personal injury claim. That starts from the very beginning of the process with the client relationship. We work hard to get to know our clients and truly understand the extent of their losses related to their injuries or the loss of their family members.
We investigate the facts of the accident by talking to all potential witnesses, examining the physical evidence, and examining any electronic evidence, such as electronically stored data and video.
We also often talk to the investigating officers and consult with experts. A big part of what we do is deal directly with the insurance companies and fight them for fair compensation for our clients. That battle starts before we ever file suit and often involves rigorous negotiations back and forth, when appropriate.
Types of Damages We Pursue
We fight to recover economic damages, which include medical expenses and loss wages for our clients' injuries, and non-economic damages, which include pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, and inconvenience. In certain cases where the other at-fault party was more than negligent but reckless or wanton, we also seek punitive damages for our clients.
Punitive damages are not designed to compensate our clients like other types of damages; instead, they actually punish the wrongdoer for their extreme conduct.
We see this in drunk driving cases, in cases where the at-fault party made reckless decisions that injured or killed our clients. Although most cases settle before we ever go to a lawsuit or a jury trial, some cases must be tried to a jury. This often happens when the insurance company or the corporation on the other side doesn't see the case's true value and is unwilling to pay fair compensation.
What Sets Our Personal Injury Law Firm Apart
Our legal team has a track record of obtaining significant results at jury trials when the other side is unwilling to be fair. Unlike many personal injury firms, our law firm has decades of experience in and out of court in personal injury and wrongful death claims.
We work extremely hard to maintain a great relationship with our clients, advocating for their interests and getting the best result possible. We can never guarantee anybody a particular result, but our goal is always the same: We want maximum compensation for our clients for what they've been through.
In Kansas City, MO, we take a personalized approach to taking care of the client and getting to know them well. This is a way that we can honor the trust that our clients have put in us, but it's also great advocacy. The more that we know our clients, the more that we can advocate for them because we know the facts of their case inside and out.
We also know the toll this accident has taken on our client's life. That means if we need to try the case before a jury, we are ready to share our client's story and inform the jury about the enormity of the injury and the defendant's negligence. At Mann Wyatt Tanksley, we are committed to our clients and stay with them every step of the way.
What to Do After an Accident
If you're injured after a car crash, a motorcycle accident, or a truck wreck, get the medical care you need, first and foremost. Gather as much information as possible about the property damage, accident report information, names of witnesses, and any witness statements that might be available.
Contacting a Kansas City personal injury lawyer early can help protect your legal rights. As a law firm, we could start investigating as soon as the client retains us. We investigate the accident, get copies of reports, and talk to witnesses.
Statute of Limitations for Personal Injury Cases in Missouri
A statute of limitations is the limited time period within which a lawsuit can be brought to preserve a claim. In Missouri, the time to bring a claim and file a lawsuit varies depending on the type of negligence.
The statute is five years for most general personal injury and auto accident cases. The statute is shorter in other types of cases, like medical malpractice and wrongful death. The facts and circumstances of every case and every plaintiff can determine which statute of limitations applies, and if an injury victim is interested in having a personal injury attorney review the applicable time period.
If the statute of limitations is missed, the case is barred in most cases, and the injury victim has no recourse to bring a legally enforceable claim.
How to Start Your Free Case Evaluation
You can have your case evaluated by filling out this contact form below with your name, contact information, a brief description of the facts, and how you've been injured.
FAQs About Working With a Kansas City Injury Attorney
A personal injury claim is a claim for legal damages, otherwise known as monetary compensation for physical injuries or death. It is different from other types of legal claims because of the specific types of damages.
It's not just monetary losses but actual physical losses of abilities, loss of life, or the long-term impact of injuries. Statistically, most cases involving personal injury or wrongful death don't go to the courtroom. Oftentimes, lawsuits are filed, but the case is resolved before the case ever goes to trial.
In many cases, the case can be resolved before a lawsuit is filed.