Although wrong-way accidents aren’t common, they’re often devastating. According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), 300 to 400 people are killed every year in wrong-way wrecks. In the Kansas City area, negligent drivers travelling the wrong way on I-55 and other local highways cause serious injuries in multi-vehicle crashes. If you were injured in a…

According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), homicide is the fourth leading cause of workplace death in the United States. Nearly two million workers report being the victims of workplace violence every year. According to OSHA, “Workplace violence is any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening, disruptive behavior that…

States have workers’ compensation laws to ensure that employees who are injured while performing job duties will receive payment for their medical expenses and other financial losses. Before the workers’ comp system was developed, employees often had to sue their employers for these damages. In both Kansas and Missouri, most employers are required by state…

Each year numerous workers suffer on-the-job injuries in the United States. Depending upon the severity and seriousness of the injury, federal laws provide workers’ compensation guidelines for individual awards. Work injury victims should know what the law allows for with regard to compensation. Federal workers have the Federal Employee Compensation Act (FECA) to determine the…

You don’t really want to take action against the driver who struck you. After all, he’s just a kid—he hasn’t even earned his graduated driver’s license yet. But if someone in your car was seriously injured, your insurance isn’t going to cover the medical bills for the rest of his life—and he shouldn’t have to…

The weather is warming up, and you can’t wait to get back on the road. You’ve been cooped up in a car all winter, and the first sunny day on the bike was worth the wait—until you discover that the snow and ice has been even rougher on the roads than it has been on…

It’s an open-and-shut case: you were sitting in stopped traffic, waiting for the light to change—when a driver approached your bike from behind a little too quickly. He struck your back wheel, sending you to the pavement and your bike into the car ahead of you. You are in the hospital, and the drivers of…

The first thing you were taught in driver’s education is to stay in your lane. It sounds simple, but many drivers have trouble veering and weaving even though their cars are roughly the width of the traffic lane. For motorcyclists, staying “in the lane” presents a whole different problem. A motorcycle only takes up about…

You pass by Kansas City, Missouri, crosswalks every single day. You may find that you tense up a little behind the wheel as you approach a crosswalk. You are concerned about what to do. Should you always come to a complete stop when you approach a crosswalk? Do you always yield to pedestrians? Can pedestrians…

It was a clumsy beginning, but you’ve slowly started to get the hang of how your new motorcycle works—leaning into turns, when to brake, and how to idle at a stoplight without falling over. But buzzing along the back streets of your neighborhood is very different than traveling 50mph down I-70. Your mandatory road skills…