Manhattan Personal Injury Lawyer

Palmer Law has a long history of providing high-quality legal services to the people of Manhattan and Northeast Kansas. Since 1979, clients have trusted our team of attorneys to help them resolve all manner of legal issues and affairs. You, too, can put your trust in us.

Since our inception, we have established ourselves as a plaintiff’s law firm that gets results for our clients. Through hard work and meticulous preparation, our Manhattan, KS, personal injury attorneys have recovered tens of millions of dollars for clients who have been injured by others, and they may be able to do the same for you.

When you trust our Manhattan, KS, personal injury attorneys with your legal needs, you get:

• A firm with over 40 years of experience winning cases for injury victims
• A firm that has recovered over $100 million for clients
• A firm with deep ties to the Manhattan and Northeast Kansas communities
• A firm with award-winning attorneys who care.

How Personal Injuries Damage Lives

Our Manhattan, KS, personal injury attorneys have seen firsthand how injuries can change the courses of victims’ lives and how deeply they can affect the lives of their loved ones. If serious enough, these injuries can lead to a lifetime of permanent disability, where dreams are lost or must be altered as you learn to cope with devastating financial and emotional losses.

Medical Care Expenses

Everyone knows the prohibitive costs of medical treatment. Even with insurance, injury victims may still face significant medical bills. Add in hospital stays, prescription drugs, and tests, and you often see severe medical debt that is insurmountable without compensation.

Lost Income

Injury victims must typically take time off work due to their injury. Even though it may not be their fault, the consequences of doing so can be unfavorable. In addition to the loss of wages, the injured person might also lose their employment or become entirely unemployable.

But why should they have to shoulder these devastating losses when their injury was not their fault? The answer is simply that they shouldn’t. Part of the compensation from an injury claim goes to address the income a victim loses out on from becoming incapacitated. When the injury is particularly debilitating and long-term, injury victims may also claim lost future wages.

Household Services Expenses

After an injury, many people need help accomplishing daily tasks to keep their lives together. Some injury victims with children must pay out of pocket for childcare services. Others have to hire cleaning and laundry services. These expenses may be recoverable, depending on the circumstances.

Physical Therapy and Long-Term Care

If you suffer a debilitating injury with long-term consequences, physical therapy and long-term care will likely be necessary. But these services are expensive and time-consuming. Fortunately, your Manhattan, KS personal injury lawyer may be able to recover these costs if your injury was caused by a negligent actor.

Pain and Suffering

The potential damages you can recover are not limited to medical costs, lost income, and other tangible expenses. Your personal injury lawyer can also seek compensation for your pain and suffering. How much you can ask for depends on the seriousness of your injury. For example, the pain and suffering resulting from a broken arm is far less than the pain and suffering from two broken arms and two broken legs, so the compensation value for the latter would be higher.

Loss of Enjoyment of Life

The ability to enjoy life is one of the greatest gifts you can have. An injury can leave you with unrelenting pain throughout the day and a body that no longer works as it had. Finding yourself unable to engage in certain activities that make your life enjoyable can lead to depression and anxiety.

Fortunately, you can have a personal injury attorney pursue justice through a personal injury claim and bring much-needed relief to your situation.

How Palmer Law Can Help You with Your Injury Case

Palmer Law can help you pursue a higher compensation payout than you would get by seeking justice by yourself. Insurance companies routinely offer minimum payouts to claimants, knowing that many will take them blindly. Adjusters count on the inexperience and ignorance of injury victims and use it to convince them that their claims are worth less than they truly are.

When you put your trust in Palmer Law, you get a seasoned Manhattan personal injury attorney who will not entertain low-ball offers. Our experience in these matters allows us to realistically appraise the value of injury claims and seek more compensation when appropriate.

Palmer Law Manages Every Aspect of Your Claim

There’s a lot that goes into pursuing a worthy compensation payout. You should not have to burden yourself with the cumbersome claims process while you are injured. Our Manhattan, KS, personal injury attorney can handle everything for you, from filing the claim all the way to the resolution of the case.

Always remember that while you are trying to get the highest compensation available for your claim, the insurance company and the defendant are working to do the opposite. And without a Manhattan, KS, personal injury lawyer on your side, the deck will be stacked against you.

Some of the many tasks we accomplish while managing your case include:

• Handling all documents and paperwork related to the case
• Collecting evidence that backs up your claim
• Negotiating settlement offers for higher compensation
• Going to trial if necessary.

Holding Negligent Actors Accountable for Your Losses

To collect compensation for your injuries, your Manhattan, KS, personal injury lawyer must hold someone responsible for the damage done by proving they were negligent. Depending on the type of personal injury you suffered, this may be simple or complicated.

Automobile Accidents

Negligence can take many forms on the road. Some forms are particularly egregious and may result in criminal charges. After all, accident victims can face serious injuries — sometimes even death. Some of the principal causes of automobile accidents in Kansas include:

• Distracted driving
• Driving under the influence
• Driving while tired
• Excessive speeding
• Failing to yield
• Failing to stop at red lights or stop signs
• Failing to signal
• Following too closely.

Other common forms of driver negligence that lead to crashes include aggressive driving, road rage, and driving an unsafe vehicle.

Slip and Fall Accidents

If you get injured on someone else’s property, you may have a claim for compensation, depending on where and how the accident occurred. In general, property owners and tenants must keep their properties in a reasonably safe condition. Failure to do so may be considered negligence.

Common situations that give rise to slip and fall accidents include:

• Unaddressed slippery surfaces
• Blocked hallways and doorways
• Poor lighting and visibility
• Broken steps
• Unmarked holes in walkways.

Many of the accidents caused by these dangerous situations are avoidable; a simple warning would prevent many of them. Negligence often lies in a failure to warn of or correct a dangerous situation.

Accidents Caused by Products

Designers, manufacturers, distributors, marketers, and retailers all have a duty to provide consumers with products that are not unreasonably dangerous. Of course, many products are inherently dangerous, such as various medications, power tools, and firearms. But products can be considered unreasonably dangerous for a number of reasons, such as due to faulty design or manufacturing. In these cases, injured parties may have valid claims.

Dog Bites

While dogs may be man’s best friend, the unfortunate truth is that they bite millions of people each year, with over 800,000 victims needing some level of medical treatment. Since dogs are very popular pets, these alarmingly high statistics should be of no surprise, but that doesn’t mean they should be tolerated. Dog bite victims can face substantial physical injuries, including:

• Lacerations
• Puncture wounds
• Amputations
• Broken and crushed bones
• Rabies
• Infections
• Internal organ damage
• Death.

Psychological and emotional injuries are also common results of dog bites, with many victims suffering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, or depression.

Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Tragically, our personal injury attorneys in Manhattan, KS, sometimes handle nursing home abuse and neglect cases. When we do, we help our clients act quickly to secure the safety of their loved ones in danger, and we fight to get them justice for the negligence and injuries inflicted upon them.

Frequently Asked Questions

As personal injury attorneys in Manhattan, KS, we are more than happy to field your questions. Please peruse the following common inquiries and contact us with any further questions you might have.

If your question was not answered above, contact the Palmer Law Group, and we will get you the answers you are searching for.

Attorney LJ Leatherman

LJ Leatherman passionately believes in fair and dedicated representation for individuals who have been affected by automobile negligence, electrical injuries, firearm litigation, wrongful death, and third-party claims against insurance companies and all other areas of personal injury litigation. [Read More]