Top Kansas City Personal Injury Attorneys

Kansas City Accident Injury Attorneys won a record $1 million verdict under the Federal Tort Claims Act. At the time, no larger verdict of that kind had ever been issued. Founder James Roswold has practiced law since 1990.

The firm has also recovered $7 million in a car crash case and $4.5 million for an injured motorcyclist. Its lawyers pursue claims against impaired, distracted, and fatigued drivers. They also take nursing home neglect and construction site cases.

Clients who can't travel can meet a lawyer at home or in the hospital. Evening and weekend appointments are available. Satellite offices in Lee's Summit, Blue Springs, Overland Park, and Olathe see clients by appointment.

Kevin McManus is a personal injury lawyer in Kansas City who also takes on denied disability claims. His firm has won a $14.5 million truck crash settlement. It also secured $2 million for a local brain injury survivor.

Attorney McManus served on the Kansas City council and in the Missouri House of Representatives. That public service gives him a close view of local laws. The firm accepts a limited number of cases each year, so every client gets real attention.

Outside of accident cases, the team handles:

• ERISA long-term disability denials
• Life insurance appeals
• Bad faith insurance disputes

Spanish-speaking staff are on hand, and the firm also meets clients in Overland Park and Lee's Summit.

Castle Law Office is a Kansas City law firm that handles injury claims and bankruptcy under one roof. The team takes car, truck, and motorcycle crashes. It also handles workers' compensation, Social Security disability appeals, and Missouri Tort Victims Compensation Fund claims.

Every Wednesday morning, people can walk in and speak with an attorney without an appointment. All Castle Law attorneys live in the Kansas City area. Attorney Heather Lottmann is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. The firm has two offices, one downtown and one in South Kansas City.

Since 1993, Peterson & Associates has collected more than half a billion dollars for injured clients. Founder Dave Peterson began practicing in the Kansas City area in 1984.

Product liability and mass tort cases are a major part of the firm's work. Results include a $141 million defective product settlement. The lawyers also take plane, helicopter, boating, and train accident claims.

The staff includes an in-house investigator. Lawyers will meet clients at home, in the hospital, or online. In 2015, Dave and Krista Peterson started The Peterson Foundation to help local children in need.

Meyerkord, Russell & Hergott is a personal injury firm based in Kansas City's River Market. Also known as MRH Injury Law, it prepares every case for trial.

Partners Matt Meyerkord, Brian Russell, and Nick Hergott have recovered over $50 million for clients. Results include $5 million for a rear-end crash victim with a brain injury. Another $5 million came from an insurance bad faith dispute.

The lawyers also take crime victim cases, negligent security claims, and sexual abuse claims. Hit-and-run and uninsured driver cases round out the practice.

Clients who sign with Northland Injury Law get a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. If they are unhappy in that time, the firm returns the file and they owe nothing.

The firm has served Northland, Kansas City, since 1996. Founding partners Eric Bartlett and Stephen Mowry split their work between crash cases and on-the-job injuries. Offices in Liberty and St. Joseph reach clients across Northwest Missouri.

Results include $1.75 million for the family of a woman killed by a drunk driver.

Ryan Bratcher is an injury attorney in Kansas City who runs RKB Law from an office in the Northland. Attorney Bratcher handles car, bus, and pedestrian crashes, along with medical mistakes and workplace accidents.

He also takes consumer protection cases, including defense against debt collection suits. Meetings are by appointment only.

Monsees & Mayer is a trial firm that represents injury victims and sexual abuse survivors. Its lawyers secured a $21 million wrongful death settlement for the family of a pedestrian struck by a bus.

The team also won a $5 million verdict against a Wichita private school. Five offices serve clients in Missouri and Kansas.

McShane & Brady focuses much of its practice on HIPAA violations and data breaches. Attorneys Lucy McShane and Maureen Brady have taken on hospitals, banks, universities, and phone carriers over leaked records.

The pair also handle class actions and slip-and-fall injuries. They represent people hurt in car and motorcycle wrecks, too.

Three lawyers at Cullan & Cullan are also medical doctors. Pat, Joe, and Sam Cullan each hold M.D. and J.D. degrees, which helps in birth injury and medical malpractice cases.

The firm has won over $350 million in verdicts and settlements. That total includes a state-record $26.1 million malpractice jury award.

Plaza Injury Law is a one-attorney practice near the Country Club Plaza. Donovan Dodrill has handled motor vehicle claims and injury lawsuits since 2009.

Clients work with him directly instead of being passed around a big firm, and they can even text the office. His honors include Best of the Bar and Super Lawyers. He works on a contingency fee.

Founded in 1986, Dempsey Kingsland Osteen focuses on medical errors, catastrophic injuries, and fatal negligence. A physician and a registered nurse sit on its in-house medical team.

The firm has secured over $150 million, including $43.1 million in a vaccine injury case.

Dickerson Oxton is a group of personal injury attorneys in Kansas City. Tom Dickerson and Chelsea Oxton Dickerson founded it in 2010. The office sits near downtown's Library District, and a second office serves Wichita.

The team won $21 million after a semi-truck crash. It also handles mass torts over port catheters, firefighting foam, and GLP-1 drugs.

Royce Injury Lawyers lets clients start a case by phone at any hour, with no office visit needed. Attorney Jason Royce Allen's team secured a $3.25 million traumatic brain injury settlement. The firm also takes kratom-related death claims.

Phyllis Norman and Adam Graves founded Norman & Graves to pair injury trial work with class actions. Attorney Norman has served as a 16th Circuit judicial commissioner. She was also the 2023 president of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.

Near Crown Center, Fowler Pickert Eisenmenger Norfleet handles medical negligence and serious injury cases. Ryan Fowler, Spencer Eisenmenger, and Robert Norfleet work most files together. All three once practiced on the defense side.

Michael Yonke is a trial lawyer in Kansas City who founded Yonke Law in 2001. Attorney Yonke has practiced since 1994 and teaches at the Keenan Trial Institute. Clients follow their case through the firm's People First portal.

Langdon & Emison is a personal injury firm with an office in Independence, Missouri. Its attorneys have earned $1 billion in verdicts and settlements. Trucking litigation and spinal cord injuries are core parts of the practice.