Kansas City Injury Lawyer Making A Difference for One & All in Motorcycle Accidents
As the weather warms, and more people are on the highways and interstates, there typically are an increasing number of vehicular accidents, particularly motorcycle accidents. According to Douglas R. Horn, Lead Attorney & Founder of The Horn Law Firm, Independence, Missouri, a large percentage of the motorcycle cases he handles involve a circumstance where a motorist pulls out in front of an on-coming motorcycle. When this happens there is not much a motorcyclist can do to avoid a collision and serious injury or death.
Without question, Horn’s first priority is his client’s recovery. “These cases require a high commitment because our client has a life-changing injury and a substantial loss of past, present, and future income. I have a high duty to maximize the insurance compensation.” said Douglas Horn. He further stated that, in his view, he has the responsibility to provide counsel and take care of details for the care-givers and the family of his client. “In the early part of the case I want my client to have the best medical care and rehabilitation in order that they reach maximum medical improvement as quickly as possible.”
Horn is also trying to make a difference for the public at large. “We need to raise awareness that motorcycles are often difficult to see even on the open roadway in the bright sunlight. Likewise, the motorcyclist must constantly anticipate that the car or truck drivers will violate the right-of- way.”
Horn is in the process of developing a motorcycle safety campaign that he hopes will lead to less accidents this summer. “In all my years of representing injured motorcyclists, I have not represented a motorcyclist that wasn’t driving safe. Unfortunately, it takes more than driving at a safe speed and under control to keep yourself from a collision.
Established in 1990, the Kansas City-based Horn Law Firm is a personal injury law firm that concentrates in auto, truck, and motorcycle accidents. Although the majority of the firm’s cases are in the Kansas City Metropolitan area (Clay, Cass, Jackson, Wyandotte, Johnson counties), the firm regularly represents victims of motor vehicle accidents throughout Missouri, Kansas, and the Midwest.
