Kansas City | Johnson County | Kansas | Missouri | Personal Injury & Wrongful Death Attorneys/Lawyers/Law Firm
The attorneys and staff at The Law Offices of Jeremiah Johnson, LLC represent people injured in auto accidents, job accidents, and other accidents due to the negligence or fault of another.
If you have suffered personal injuries or lost a loved one due in an auto accident or due to the fault of another in Kansas City, Johnson County, Kansas or Missouri, it is imperative that your rights be protected by a personal injury/wrongful death attorney throughout the legal process. Our law office represents people injured in auto accidents throughout the Kansas City and Johnson County areas including representation in Johnson County District Court, Wyandotte County District Court, Jackson County Court, other State Courts in Kansas and Missouri as well as in Federal Court. The attorneys and staff if our office also provide wrongful death representation to the estates and families of those killed due to the negligent driving or actions of another person or party.
This law office has represented people injured in auto accidents, work accidents, and other injuries due to the fault of another in Kansas City, Olathe, Overland Park, Leawood, Lenexa, and throughout the Johnson County and Kansas City metro areas. We take pride in recovering every dollar our clients deserve and we work hard to make sure that we pursue every avenue of recovery in all of our personal injury and wrongful death cases. We utilize a variety of strategies learned from years of experience to accomplish our goals. Our firm has successfully recovered millions of dollars for clients injured in a broad range of accidents, including auto accidents in Kansas City and Johnson County, including injuries sustained at work, intentional tort injuries, and other civil tort claims.
Insurance companies have thousands of attorneys working hard for them. The Insurance companies employ a variety of strategies designed to minimize policy payouts, blame policyholders for injuries and deny the existence of valid insurance coverage. Before you agree to talk to an insurance company or representative of another party, be sure to have an experienced personal injury lawyer on your side. You owe it to yourself to get an aggressive Kansas City & Johnson County personal injury attorney working on your behalf!
We have successfully millions of dollars in Kansas City and Johnson County personal injury cases of all types:
1. Auto accidents in Johnson County and Kansas City - Our past successes in Kansas City and Johnson County auto accident cases includes numerous "policy limits" settlements in a variety of accident types. A "policy limits" offer represents the maximum amount an insurance company is subject to pay in a given case. Settling a case for "policy limits," usually means that our personal injury clients are able to get every dollar they could at trial, without the risk, expense, and time involved in a trial. We have secured "policy limits" settlements before a lawsuit is filed, after a lawsuit was filed, and on the eve of a jury trial in Johnson County District Court.
Our attorneys have successfully represented Kansas City and Johnson County residents in rollover accidents, rear end collisions, intersection wrecks where the negligent driver ran a red light, head on collisions, and single vehicle accidents involving a "phantom driver." These auto accidents have taken place in good weather and bad, day and night.
We understand the steps necessary to maximize the value of a case and we work hard to represent our clients and insure that they get every dollar they are entitled to. We also strive to be accessible to our clients, meaning that we take steps to insure that we communicate effectively with out clients. For more information about our auto accident representation, visit our auto accident pages for Kansas City and Johnson County auto wrecks.
2. Commercial vehicle & heavy truck injuries and wrongful deaths - Commercial vehicles include heavy trucks such as 18 wheelers/semi-trailers, large buses, and other large vehicles. These vehicles have the potential to inflict catastrophic injuries due to their sizes and weights which are often 20 or 30 times as much as the average passenger car. When a commercial vehicle strikes a passenger car, the collision often results in serious injury or death for the vehicle's occupants. Commercial vehicle drivers are required to follow state and federal commercial vehicle regulations which govern their operation and dictate that they carry insurance policies with limits that are usually $1 million or more.
Commercial vehicle accident cases are often highly complicated and require a law office and attorneys with knowledge of the state and federal laws for commercial vehicles. A lawyer working on a Kansas City or Johnson County commercial vehicle/heavy truck case also needs to be able to sift through the complicated evidence that is usually involved in trucking personal injury/wrongful death cases. This evidence includes data from the truck's data recorders (see more about these recorders on our trucking/commercial vehicle page), the damage to the vehicles themselves, eyewitness reports, coroner reports, and reports from medical and law enforcement personnel.
This office has represented the families of victims killed by commercial vehicles in both Federal Court for the District of Kansas and Wyandotte County District Court. We recently secured a "policy limits" settlement in a commercial vehicle case which involved the death of a Kansas City man.
3. Intentional torts committed by one person and injuring another person - An intentional tort is an intentional and injurious act committed by one person upon another. An easily recognized example is a battery, where one person strikes another. This law offices has secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement for Kansas City area intentional tort cases.
Experienced readers may recognize that the States of Kansas and Missouri do not allow insurance companies to insure for intentional torts, and thus wonder how we were able to convince an insurance company to pay the "policy limits" in an intentional tort case. The answer is complicated, but the short version is that we successfully crafted our lawsuit, discovery, and depositions to leave open the possibility that the intentional act might have been a negligent act. By crafting and pursuing our case in such a manner we were able to trigger the possibility of a "bad faith" claim against the insurance company, should the jury agree with out theory of the case. Thus we were able to collect a large amount of money for our injured client who had previously been told by 12 different attorneys that, while he had a great case factually, there was no way to collect any money and that they could not take his case.
Please review our website for more information about your personal injury or wrongful death case. When you're ready to speak to an attorney about your case, call us at 866-656-1268 or email Jeremiah at Jeremiah@kcatty.com.
Jeremiah Johnson:
I have been working for plaintiff's law firms representing people in personal injury and wrongful death cases since 2003. I formed the Law Offices of Jeremiah Johnson LLC in 2006 and have been practicing personal injury and wrongful death law in Kansas and Missouri every day since opening the office. I have settled dozens of auto accident, wrongful death, and negligence cases in both Kansas and Missouri, with the total amount of settlements in the millions of dollars.
I believe in taking and working on every Kansas or Missouri personal injury/wrongful death case with the assumption that the case will go to trial. Although the vast majority of personal injury and wrongful death cases end up settling before trial, I believe this approach allows us to get better offers for our clients, and of course it means that we will be better prepared for trial than an attorney who is forced to scramble to put together a trial plan at the last second. We have seen offers immediately go from $10,000 to $300,000 once opposing counsel realized we were ready to take the case to trial.
I have taken a large range of cases to trial in front of judges and juries in both State and Federal Court. Our office's philosophy is to be ready to take any of our cases to trial in the most advantageous jurisdiction possible. I feel that our trial experience helps us demand and recover more money for our Johnson County, Kansas City, Kansas, and Missouri personal injury and wrongful death clients because we can hold a defendant's or insurance companies feet to the fire. It is easy to realize that a defendant or insurance company is going to de-value a case with an attorney who is afraid or unwilling to take a case to trial - if they know the attorney is afraid to present the case to a jury, why would the defendants and insurance companies pay?
I strive to know all of the ever-changing law that affects our clients cases and I, along with my employees, also maintain a number of contacts in the litigation defense industry, the insurance industry, and the medical industry. These contacts help us keep abreast of ever changing policies and practices which allows us to maximize the recoveries (settlements or judgments) for our Kansas and Missouri personal injury and wrongful death clients. We know their tactics and we know how to use them to our clients' advantages.
I also strive to ensure that everyone in our client remembers rule #1 - that we are representing our clients, not ourselves. This rule may sound simple enough, but you would be surprised how many law firms and attorneys simply treat clients as "files" and not people with unique and important cases.
We strive to be available to our clients. We do not screen calls in our office. If you call for one of us and we are here and available, we will make time to talk to you. If we are not in the office, we return most calls in a few hours and nearly every call within 24 hours. We also reply to almost every email with 24 hours. We send our clients copies of court pleadings and other important documents to insure that they are up to date with their cases. We also provide our cell phone numbers to our personal injury and wrongful death clients so that they can reach us after hours. Our goal is to make sure that every client is represented as well as possible.
Scott McFall:
Scott came to our law office after working at a large defense firm in Kansas City, MO until 2007. His former employer represented individual and corporate defendants in cases ranging from automobile accidents, to wrongful death claims, to product liability claims. Some of these cases included claims for hundreds of millions of dollars. Scott's experience working on a number of different cases at this firm has given him insight into how large defense prepare and defend high-value cases, how to best deal with these cases and law firms, and where a large firm or their clients may be vulnerable. Scott's tools have proven highly valuable to our firm on many occasions and will continue to pay dividends in the future.
Prior to practicing defense law for the large firm in Kansas City, MO, Scott worked at a smaller law office that specialized in representing people in Appellate Court proceedings. He not only took part in the investigation and research for the appeals, but he also wrote a number of appellate briefs and arguments. Such experience is rare has given Scott tremendous insight in helping our firm focus our litigation efforts on representing our clients in a manner which we hope will prevent the opposing party from seeking or receiving appellate relief.
While working in our law office on wrongful death, personal injury, and other cases in Kansas and Missouri, Scott has represented our clients in a wide range trials in front of judges and juries as co-counsel or lead counsel in State and Federal Court. Scott shares in our office's willingness to take any of our cases to trial and enjoys presenting our cases to the Court and the jury.
Katie Sellers:
Katie is currently working towards her law degree while serving as our office manager. While she may be young, she has been valuable to our firm far beyond her age.
Katie's duties include managing the office, maintain contact with clients, assisting in discovery and case investigations, insuring that our files are properly maintained, and with preparing our cases for trial. Katie has even been asked to travel to Federal and State court to assist us with large or complex trials.
Meghan Baxter:
Meghan is currently taking classes to gain a paralegal certificate. She came to work at our law office as a legal assistant after she was previously employed in the claims department at a local insurance agency. Meghan has also proved to provide valuable service to our firm far beyond what is normally expected of a legal assistant. Meghan's experience and knowledge from her prior insurance work has helped us with a number of claims against insurance companies and will certainly help in the future as well.
Meghan's duties include preparing and maintaining files, assisting with investigation and trial, corresponding with clients, and helping prepare cases for trial.
Callie Burton:
Callie previously worked as a legal assistant at another law firm for 3 years before coming to our office to work as a legal assistant. Callie's experience at her prior office, as well as her extensive knowledge of the medical care industry has made her an extremely valuable addition to our office, especially as we put together medical files.
Callie's duties include organizing and interpreting the large volumes of medical documents we often see in our personal injury and wrongful death cases, corresponding with clients, assisting with case investigations, and assisting in trial preparation.
