Missouri Personal Injury Laws

Truck Accident Litigation

Sometimes car crashes occur due to circumstances that the driver has nothing to do with. If the road on which you are riding has been improperly built or maintained or if the surface itself has been allowed to erode and degrade over time, it makes the road more dangerous to automobile drives and truckers that use those roads. One way to know if the area where your crash occurred is improperly designed or negligently maintained is if there have been several crashes in a short period of time at that stretch of highway. If you have questions about a dangerous piece of highway or roadway, call my office at the number on the screen or you can reach us through the contact form on the internet. I’m happy to visit with you at any time without any cost or obligation. Call 314-A-LAWYER today for your consultation.

By: Spencer Farris

We count on medications to make us feel better, but it doesn’t always work that way. Some drugs get to market before adequate safety studies are done, and the drug itself winds up causing more harm than good. Other times, a doctor will prescribe a drug without knowing a full history and the other medications that you are taking, and the drugs and your history work together to cause harm. Finally, my office has represented folks where the pharmacy has placed the wrong drug, either the wrong dosage or the wrong pill altogether in the bottle. If you or a loved one has been harmed due to a medication error, call my office at the number on the screen or visit us on the Internet. Not all injuries are caused by drugs, and I’m happy to help you figure out if your family has been harmed due to a dangerous drug.  Call 314-A-LAWYER today for your free consultation.

By: Spencer Farris

What to Wear to Your Deposition

Hi. I’m attorney Josh Myers. You’re watching an episode of At Schultz and Myers. Today I’m answering the question, “What should you wear to a deposition?” Now we tell all of our clients, and this is always true, it’s an informal process. But that doesn’t mean that you should be dressing like you’re someone sitting around watching the ballgame on a Sunday. Remember, you’re being evaluated by the insurance company’s lawyer. They’re going to go back and tell the insurance company not only how you testified and what you said, but they’re also going to say what kind of an appearance do you make.

Nonverbal Communication

So much that goes on in a trial is all the nonverbal communication and all the impressions that jurors are getting just by looking at you. Part of that obviously is going to be your dress. So one of the suggestions I always give to my clients is you need to dress like you’re going to a job interview. In fact, you can kind of think of it like that because in this case, we’re going to be asking for a lot of money for you. You need to dress appropriately for that.

So, again, when you’re going to your deposition, take it seriously. Obviously your attorney, or especially if you’re our client, will prepare you well. But you need to do the same and dress well for that occasion. Again, if you have any questions about this, or any questions about any injury claim, give us call. It’s always free to talk about a case. Our number is easy to remember. It’s (314) 444-4444. Thanks for watching.

By: Josh Myers

Missouri Statute of Limitations

I’m attorney Josh Myers, of Schultz and Myers, based here in St. Louis, Missouri. In our personal injury law firm, one of the questions we often get is how long after your accident can you wait before you have to file a lawsuit. Otherwise, this is what’s known as the statute of limitations.

So, I want to run through these answers real quickly for you. In Missouri, you have five years after an injury to file a lawsuit. If you don’t file within that time, it’s forever barred. For any kind of wrongful death case, it’s three years. For medical malpractice, it’s two years. That’s a quick summary on Missouri’s statute of limitations laws. I hope that helps. If you’ve ever been involved in an injury and are looking to talk with a personal injury lawyer, please give us a call at (314) 444-4444.

By: Josh Myers

When you’ve been in a crash with a drunk driver, you need a Missouri personal injury lawyer to protect your rights, because your insurance may come into play. His may not be enough, and you need someone that knows the law, and will pursue those cases aggressively. They’re not open-and-shut just because the other driver was drinking.

I remember a case, many years ago, where a drunk was aggressively driving, and racing someone else. Blew through a red light, and hit my client’s car in the side. The impact was devastating. His– when I first met the young man, his face didn’t even look like a human face, because of all the swelling, and all the injuries he sustained. But we were fortunate to be able to help him in that situation, and were very creative in finding enough coverage to try to help him put his life back together.

You wouldn’t think so, but a drunk driver in Missouri who’s hurt somebody with his first offense, even if it causes a death, may not go to prison, may get probation. Part of what civil law does, and what a Missouri personal injury lawyer does, is help hold these folks accountable for the damages they cause, make them pay for the beautiful vase that they’ve broken, or the beautiful life that they’ve destroyed. If you don’t hire a Missouri personal injury lawyer after you’ve been in a car crash, you’re at the insurance company’s mercy. And they are there – and they’re generating profits for their shareholders – not by paying folks like you who have been hurt, but by paying as little as possible on claims. They’ve got professionals on their side, and if you don’t have a Missouri personal injury lawyer fighting for you on your side, you’re going to take the crumbs that they feed you. When you’ve been hurt, and the bills are racking up, you don’t have to pay a lawyer out of pocket to represent you in your injury case. Call my office, and if we can help you, we won’t charge you anything until the end of your case, if we’re successful for you.  Call 314-A-LAWYER today for a free consultation.

By: Spencer Farris

If you’re a victim of a hit and run in Missouri your uninsured motorist coverage will protect you. And a Missouri auto accident attorney is who you need to hire to make sure that you collect from the insurance company and take care of all of your losses. You don’t need to know who hit you. They may not even need to touch your car in Missouri. If they swerve and cause you to wreck, your uninsured motor coverage is available to you and a Missouri accident attorney knows how to follow the law to get you your damages back. If I do my own plumbing at home and mess it up, I can call a professional plumber. He’ll come in – he may laugh at me – it may charge more, but he can fix it. But if you have a legal case and you don’t have an experienced Missouri auto accident attorney you can never get over that. You can never fix that problem. You get one shot to collect all of your damages and one shot to do it right. Over the years folks have come to me that tried to handle their case at the beginning because the insurance company the claim reps are very friendly and they want you to trust them. But at some point folks realize they can’t go it alone and they call me because they’re looking for a Missouri auto accident attorney. Sometimes I can help and sometimes I can’t, but it always works better if you call me, call an attorney immediately or as soon after a crash as you can. The longer the wait the harder it is for me as a Missouri auto accident attorney to do my job.  When you’ve been hurt and the bills are racking up, you don’t have to pay a lawyer out of pocket to represent you in your injury case. Call my office and if we can help you, we won’t charge you anything until the end of your case if we’re successful for you. Call 314-A-LAWYER today for a free consultation.

By: Spencer Farris

Ok, you have the contact number of Missouri motorcycle accident lawyer, but you want to find someone else who rides, because the physics and the science of being on a motorcycle make those crashes different than a simple car crash. It’s helpful to get someone who understands what it’s like to be out there on the road and how naked and exposed you feel when you’re riding next to a three-ton car. You might be wondering how to hire a personal injury lawyer, or what kind of things you should look at. And the first thing that I tell every client, “Look, if you look around Saint Louis or Missouri, there’s probably 300 or 400 folks that will do just as good a job for you as my firm will do,” but you need to find someone that you feel comfortable working with, because you’re forming a partnership. And if you’re going to spend two or three years locked in a partnership with someone who won’t return your phone calls, doesn’t answer your e-mails, or really doesn’t care about you and thinks of you like you’re a number, no matter how qualified that lawyers is, he’s not the right lawyer for you.

You need a good mix of qualifications, and concern and caring chemistry, if you will, to get the right match so that you hire the right lawyer for you and your case.  When you’ve been hurt and the bills are racking up, you don’t have to pay a lawyer out of pocket to represent you in your injury case. Call my office, and if we can help you we won’t charge you anything until the end of your case if we’re successful for you.  Call 314-A-LAWYER today for a free consultation.

By: Spencer Farris; Nevada Auto Accident Lawyers.

Punitive damages are sometimes called exemplary damages. Those are the damages that a jury awards to punish the defendant for bad acts, and to keep other folks from repeating those kinds of acts.

By: Spencer Farris

I talked to a man yesterday who had dropped his case because he didn’t think he could afford a lawyer. Let me tell you what I told him. Injury Law News. Brought to you by The S.E. Farris Law Firm. I’m Spencer Farris, a partner at The S.E. Farris Law Firm. Folks don’t plan to get hurt at work or anywhere else. Therefore they don’t set aside money for attorney fees. Then when something bad happens, they think, “I can’t afford an attorney.” But you can and here’s how. Most qualified injury attorneys in Missouri work on what’s called a contingent fee, which means the lawyer doesn’t get paid until the end of your case if they’re successful for you. The lawyer pays the expenses of litigation as you go. Again, they don’t get their money back unless they’ve been successful for you. It’s important then to hire an attorney. Studies show that folks with lawyers get four to five times more money than those without. Insurance companies know it too. That’s why they’ll offer you a quick settlement before you have a chance to talk to a lawyer. At my law firm, you don’t pay until the end of your case, and then only if you’re successful. Another way that that’s important for you is it means you can hire an experienced, qualified lawyer to handle your case for the same percentage as someone without that experience. The difference is when you hire a good lawyer, a qualified lawyer; you get more money. If you want to talk about your case and decide if my firm is the best one to handle your case, call us at the number below, or visit us on our website which you see below. Thanks for listening. The S.E. Farris Law Firm is dedicated to the needs of injury victims and their families.

By: Spencer Farris