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Category: Medical Malpractice

By Matt Meyerkord, Esq., Personal Injury Attorney

September 24, 2026

Summary: A misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis does not automatically mean medical malpractice occurred. A viable claim generally requires showing that a healthcare provider failed to meet the appropriate standard of care and that the error or delay caused additional harm. These cases often require detailed medical records and expert review. A wrong diagnosis does not […]

By Matt Meyerkord, Esq., Personal Injury Attorney

February 2, 2026

Our personal injury firm is one of the few in Kansas City that take medical malpractice cases. As a Kansas City medical malpractice lawyer, we receive many calls from individuals who believe they or a loved one were harmed by medical negligence. Unfortunately, we are only able to accept about 10% of the medical malpractice […]

By Matt Meyerkord, Esq., Personal Injury Attorney

October 11, 2024

Medical malpractice cases are challenging. Special laws and rules apply to most medical malpractice cases, such as the shorter two-year statute of limitations for such cases in Missouri. As personal injury lawyers in Kansas City, we have handled many of these types of cases. Over the years we’ve had cases where our clients both helped […]

By Matt Meyerkord, Esq., Personal Injury Attorney

March 5, 2024

Getting injured by a doctor or other health care professional because of their mistake can be devastating. What should be healing and getting better turns into injury and getting worse; like one step forward, two steps back. We have been handling medical malpractice cases in Missouri and Kansas for over a decade. When you suspect […]

By Matt Meyerkord, Esq., Personal Injury Attorney

September 27, 2023

Pharmaceutical malpractice is a big problem in the United States. According to an article published by the National Library of Medicine, in the United States alone, 7,000 to 9,000 people die as a result of a medication error each year. We ourselves have handled several medication errors cases and have witnessed firsthand their devastating effect. Here […]

By Matt Meyerkord, Esq., Personal Injury Attorney

March 26, 2012

Sometimes personal injury cases require the use of experts to help prove a certain part of the case. For example, in a medical malpractice case, you need to hire a doctor to say the one you are suing was negligent. You don’t need an expert in every case and the decision to hire one depends […]

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