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A driver leaving the scene compounds the harm. The injured person is left without the other party's insurance details, and the immediate assumption is that nothing can be recovered. That assumption is usually wrong. Uninsured motorist coverage on the injured party's own policy is designed for precisely this situation, and in Missouri it is a standard component of auto insurance. Making a claim against your own insurer for a hit and run does not work the way people fear, but i

Legal proceedings are difficult enough in a first language. Conducted through an interpreter, they become slower, less precise and far more isolating, and important nuance gets lost in both directions. At PK Law Group, attorney Phillip Strozier is fluent in Spanish and conducts consultations, case discussions and client updates directly. That means clients speak to the lawyer handling their case rather than relaying questions through a third party, and answers come back witho

Premises liability claims are widely misunderstood. A fall on someone else's property does not automatically create a claim. What creates a claim is a dangerous condition the property owner knew about, or reasonably should have known about, and failed to fix or warn about. Kansas City winters generate a steady stream of these cases. Ice on an untreated walkway, snow cleared from a car park but not from the path across it, and water tracked into an entrance without matting or

One of the most damaging myths about car accident claims is that being partly at fault ends the case. In Missouri it does not, and understanding why changes how people respond to an adjuster who starts assigning them blame. Missouri applies pure comparative fault. An injured party can recover compensation even if they were mostly responsible, with the award reduced in proportion to their share. Someone found thirty percent at fault on a hundred thousand dollar claim recovers

Placing a parent in residential care involves a large amount of trust. When that trust is broken, families often notice the signs before they can name them: unexplained weight loss, a new reluctance to speak in front of staff, pressure sores, repeated falls or a decline that nobody can adequately explain. Neglect takes many forms. Understaffing that leaves residents unattended for hours, failure to reposition immobile patients leading to pressure ulcers, medication administer

Overland Park sits just across the state line from Kansas City, and plenty of people live in one and work in the other. That daily crossing creates a legal wrinkle most drivers never think about until they need to. A collision in Overland Park is governed by Kansas law, which allows two years to file a personal injury claim rather than Missouri's five. Kansas also applies modified comparative fault with a fifty percent bar, so a driver found equally responsible recovers nothi

Being hit by an impaired driver adds a layer of anger to an already difficult situation. The crash was entirely preventable, and the criminal case that follows runs on a separate track from any compensation the injured person might receive. Those two processes are often confused. A criminal conviction punishes the driver but does not compensate the victim. A civil claim is what recovers medical costs, lost wages and damages for pain and suffering, and it proceeds on its own t

Olathe is one of the fastest growing communities in the Kansas City metro, and traffic volumes along its main corridors have risen accordingly. Collisions here fall under Kansas law, which differs from Missouri law in ways that directly affect what an injured person can recover. The filing deadline in Kansas is two years, not five. Kansas also applies modified comparative fault with a fifty percent bar, so a driver found equally or more responsible for a collision recovers no