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Workers’ compensation is an invaluable resource for employees injured on the job. Workers’ compensation in Missouri provides nearly 67% of an injured employee’s standard wages as well as their medical care costs, and disability coverage when necessary, including temporary total disability. Temporary partial disability, permanent partial disability, and permanent total disability. It also provides...

From desk jobs to construction, employees face inherent risks. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in a hundred workers in the US experienced nonfatal occupational injury or illness in the two-year period between January 2021 and December 2022. The rate of injury is highest among workers involved in transporting goods or...

Large commercial trucks are integral to the nation’s supply chain, bringing necessary goods and services into our urban and rural communities. As much as we rely on large trucks, their looming presence on the roadways causes excess traffic congestion, impedes traffic flow, and poses a serious threat in a collision with a smaller vehicle....

Those injured at work have many questions and concerns about their rights and options. Workers’ compensation is available to injured employees in nearly any occupation, as long as an employer has five or more employees—or for a single employee in the construction industry. There were nearly 13,000 workers’ compensation claims in Missouri in 2023,...

No car accident injury receives as much attention and speculation as whiplash, usually because insurance companies dispute whiplash claims more than any other injury. Those who’ve experienced the painful and often long-term effects of whiplash know just how real and its seriousness. More than two million Americans experience whiplash every year, with car accidents...

Eyewitness testimony has long been key evidence used in court, including in St. Louis car accident claims; however, eyewitnesses sometimes have bias, misconceptions, and inaccurate memories of critical events, whereas video footage does not. Video—or digital images—of a car accident in progress tells the story of what occurred without the problems of human perception....