st. louis Personal Injury Lawyer
St. Louis Personal Injury Attorney
The lives of victims or their loved ones can change in an instant. Medical bills pile up, and they may need to take time off work to recover. Some plaintiffs may never return to their jobs. Families of those killed often struggle with medical bills, funeral expenses, and more. Insurance companies frequently offer lowball settlements that don’t cover ongoing expenses, lost wages, pain, and suffering. A St. Louis personal injury attorney can help.
If your case goes to court, you deserve a lawyer with experience and dedication to see it through. Since 2004, we have provided that level of expertise and dependability.
Not every case goes to court, but every client deserves thorough representation. We will:
– Identify all available funds, including auto, excess, umbrella, uninsured, underinsured, health, and disability policies.
– Remove the hassle and confusion while you recover.
– Negotiate and address all liens, ensuring you maximize your recovery and pay lienholders as little as legally possible.
For a dedicated St. Louis personal injury attorney, contact us today to protect your rights and secure the compensation you deserve.
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Focus Areas
As a leading St. Louis personal injury attorney, our practice specializes in a wide array of personal injury cases. We handle claims related to medical malpractice, auto accidents, dangerous products, premises liability, civil rights violations, and wrongful death. With a background as a defense lawyer, Kevin Etzkorn offers a unique perspective and deep insight into these complex areas of law.
Our commitment is to fight vigorously on behalf of our clients, holding negligent individuals, manufacturers, healthcare providers, and others accountable for the harm they cause. Whether your case involves negotiating fair insurance settlements or navigating complex litigation and trials, our goal is to secure the compensation you deserve. Trust our expertise as your dedicated St. Louis personal injury attorney to advocate for your rights and achieve the justice you deserve.
We have handled numerous death claims involving cars of all types and have seen concussions and other brain injuries from even seemingly minor crashes. Whether you can be compensated for these injuries – even the most serious of them – is often a very contentious battle with insurance companies. While even the doctors hired by insurance companies to evaluate claims admit a bulging disc can be caused by minor trauma, the insurance companies often insist on fighting these cases.
Like pedestrians, cyclists hit by motor vehicles are often seriously injured. Additionally, they frequently encounter insurance coverage issues as typical automobile insurance policies do not include underinsured motorist coverage for bicyclists.
- Amusement Park Injuries
- Negligent Security
- Construction Defects
If you have been in a car accident with a drunk driver, you have every right to recover for your injuries and damages. Our firm has been suing drunk drivers for years.
Streets in portions of St. Louis and surrounding areas have a lot of foot traffic. Unfortunately, with pedestrians on the sidewalks and crossing streets, there is a risk of traffic accidents. In this day and age, the risk seems to have risen with the use of cell phones. Drivers and walkers can be distracted. These cases involve the most catastrophic injuries and deaths. They can be complicated and require experienced litigators to win. We have seen these crashes result in serious broken bones, injuries to the neck, spinal cord, and death.
- Respiratory diseases from toxic chemicals
- Defective knives
- Defective gym and exercise equipment
- Dangerous heaters
- Cancer causing medications including Actos
There are usually more devastating injuries in crashes with tractor-trailers than there are car crashes. Because of their size, commercial trucks typically can cause severe damage. We have seen cases where our clients’ cars were torn to shreds. With the ability to cause such damage to another vehicle, trucks can and often do debilitate the bodies of other drivers that come into their paths. Due to lawsuits over the last 30 years, legislators and the trucking industry have made strides in protecting other drivers from tired, intoxicated, and reckless truckers. Unfortunately, these types of accidents still occur on a regular basis on all Missouri and Illinois highways. Many companies still fail to properly screen employees and create unrealistic expectations for drivers to deliver goods.
Recent Outcomes
As a trusted St. Louis personal injury attorney, our goal is to provide exceptional legal representation and achieve justice for those who have suffered due to others’ negligence. Explore our case results to see the impact of our commitment and expertise.
We have resolved numerous trucking cases. For example, we took a trucking case to trial in the City of St. Louis. When a client’s car was knocked across the highway by a semi-truck, our lawsuit revealed the trucker had exceeded the maximum work hours and was fatigued at the end of a long shift. The trucking company made no settlement offers and argued that our client was at fault. The reporting police officer testified our client was at fault. The jury discounted the officer’s testimony and rendered a verdict for our client.
- Settlement for a client who fell from a roof during a construction project, leading to paralysis.
- One premises liability case settled at trial. Our client fell on the defendants’ property. He tore a rotator cuff, had major complications and surgery. Thanks to the evidence presented, defense counsel offered to settle during the trial.
We have tried numerous auto accident cases and have settled hundreds. By way of example, we recently handled a catastrophic injury case for a young family hit by a drunk driver. We were able to settle our client driver’s case. Our client passenger’s case went to trial in St. Charles County after we turned down a settlement offer of $300,000. The jury returned a verdict for our client in the amount of $750,000.
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