St. Louis Car Accident Attorney

Serious motor vehicle accidents often result in catastrophic, life-changing injuries. Severe head trauma or spinal cord injuries leave injury victims facing a life of expensive medical treatment, disability, loss of employment and earnings, and loss in quality of life. Lifetime medical expenses for some injuries can run in the tens of millions of dollars. As a result, liability insurance companies are often reluctant to provide adequate compensation, as are medical and disability insurance carriers. At The Mathews Law Firm, we consult economists, physiatrists, health care planners, and medical experts in developing accurate, evidence-based estimates of future costs and expenses relating to our clients' injuries. We examine the total financial impact of an injury, taking into account the present as well as future lifetime needs. This includes the increasing costs over time of medical and nursing care, hospitalization and in-home care, medical equipment, home and vehicle modifications, physical and occupational therapy, future surgeries, lost wages, and loss in quality of life.

A thorough investigation of a serious car accident requires considerable resources and care. Our office is selective in the cases it chooses to represent. We focus on individuals suffering from the following types of injuries:

• Severe head trauma
• Spinal cord injuries
• Amputations
• Severe burns
• Wrongful death

For more information contact a St. Louis car accident attorney at The Mathews Law Firm. Our offices represent clients throughout St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Jefferson County, St. Charles County, Jackson County, Greene County and all other couties in Missouri.  We represent clients throughout Illinois including Madision, St. Clair, Williamson, Jackson and Jefferson County.  We represent clients throughout the State of Florida, including Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Osceola and Hillsbourough counties.  As well, we represent clients in conjunction with local counsel licensed in other jurisdictions, throughout the United States.

Injuries and Disabilities Caused by Negligent and Reckless Drivers

The Mathews Law Firm represents clients injured in all types of motor vehicle accidents, including:

• Automobile Collisions
• Speeding
• Drunk driving
• Unsafe speed for conditions
• Illegal turning movement
• Failure to obey traffic signals
• Truck Accidents
• Load shift
• Tire blowout
• Driver fatigue
• Brake failure
• Speeding
• Regulatory violations
• Negligent maintenance
• Negligent training
• Motorcycle Crashes
• Run off road
• Failure to signal
• Turning vehicle collisions
• Unsafe lane changes

Proving Your Case

We move to immediately investigate the scene of an accident and the vehicles involved. Working with accident reconstruction experts and experienced investigators, we gather evidence to determine who and what caused the accident and the injuries to our clients. The evidence collected can be used to produce computer simulations to recreate the conditions that existed, and to determine the speeds involved, the precise movements of the vehicles and the various factors which were contributing causes of an accident. These factors can include negligent vehicle operation, maintenance or training, vehicle code or regulatory violations, material defects and failures, negligent roadway design or maintenance, dangerous conditions of highways and property, as well as design and manufacturing defects.

After completing initial investigation and inspections, our firm maintains vehicles and other material evidence. to preserve and store evidence in order to conduct ongoing investigations while preparing our cases for settlement or trial.

Leveling the Playing Field

We have the legal, financial, technical and expert witness resources needed to challenge doctors and other experts hired by insurance companies to limit their financial responsibility. Our experience in complex and highly technical products liability and highway engineering litigation allows our attorneys to successfully pursue our clients' claims for injuries resulting from any type of automobile accident.

If you have questions regarding a serious injury or wrongful death caused by a motor vehicle collision, whether a multi-car accident, two vehicle collision or single vehicle rollover or car wreck, contact The Mathews Law Firm. 

Determining the Financial Impact of Your Injuries

Catastrophic injuries involving brain damage, paraplegia, quadriplegia, serious burns, limb amputation, severe head trauma or spinal cord damage can result in damages in the millions, if not tens of millions of dollars. We work closely with health care planners and economic specialists to quantify both your current as well as long-term health care and economic needs. When catastrophic injuries are involved, we retain experts and consultants to project long-term expenditures such as in-home care, home modifications and medical equipment, as well as to evaluate lost earnings and lost earning capacity, in order to ensure that all aspects of damages are taken into account