Debra D. Freidell, P.C.

Client’s vehicle was broadsided, pushing the front passenger door 18″ into the body of the car where Client was sitting. Client’s pelvis was fractured in two places. The soft tissue injuries were so intense that she described her groin as being on fire with pain. She also had injuries to her low back and neck, which required two surgeries. Cuts on Client’s nose and face required 14 stitches. Today, Client suffers permanent disability.Client had mixed emotions about hiring an attorney to represent her in a lawsuit. Her minster advised her to follow scripture:

then do what is good and you will receive its approval; …But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority does not bear the sword in vain! It is the servant of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer. …Pay to all what is due them… revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Romans 13:3-7 NSRV

The family talked to an attorney who had represented them on other family business matters. They hired Debra because she concentrates her practice on personal injury.

The claims adjuster for the negligent driver’s insurance company offered to settle Client’s claim for $30,000. The reason: Her pelvis fractures were healing well and her pain was mainly the result of “degenerative disc disease.” This is a classic defense. Everyone is aging, therefore their bodies are degenerating. But Client was only 44 years old!

Shortly before trial the claim settled for $350,000.

Client needs a certain amount per month, with more during her children’s college years, and more from age 59 forward. Rather than handing Client one big check, Ms. Freidell worked with a structured settlement broker, who shops the market to find the best annuities for each situation. Client’s annuity grows the settlement by 89%.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a Kansas City personal injury attorney that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone else’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.

Client was hit by a car while crossing the street. Before he hired Debra Freidell, the claims adjuster offered to pay his medical bills to pay the claim. It sounded fair, because Client had been treated at three local hospitals and there were a lot of bills to pay.Ms. Freidell arranged to have a guardian and conservator appointed for Client, on the grounds that he suffered dementia due to head trauma as the result of the collision. Ms. Freidell then settled Client’s claim for $222,500, which totally extinguished medical liens and netted in $90,574 to Client. Client’s claim was settled seven months after hiring Ms. Freidell, without ever going to court.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a Kansas City personal injury attorney that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone else’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.

An apartment complex manager referred to Debra Freidell tenants whose 3-year-old son was badly injured when a car ran over his face and shoulder in the parking lot of the apartment complex. The parents had already hired an attorney, but the attorney mainly did criminal defense work and planned to pursue the case in 15 years, after the toddler reached the age of majority. Ms. Freidell quickly settled for maximum insurance policy limits, and arranged for a district judge to approve the minor settlement.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a personal injury attorney in Kansas City, MO that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.

An oncoming driver turned left in front of husband and wife Clients, hitting them, fracturing wife’s wrist and injuring her back and ankle, and straining husband’s neck and back.There were several problems with Clients’ insurance claim:

1. Wife had rotator cuff surgery for her right shoulder seven months prior to the collision. She didn’t know how she injured her shoulder.
2. Husband and wife were treated by a chiropractor for an auto collision six months prior to the collision.
3. Husband was in & out of the hospital for diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart problems. Wife spent her time caring for her husband instead of following through with physical therapy for her wrist.

Still, once Debra Freidell acquired and forwarded to the claims adjuster the information needed to evaluate the claim, the claim settled within two weeks for $52,000.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a Kansas City personal injury attorney that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.

One beautiful weekend, Client was cycling thru a Johnson County park, entered a tunnel, and was caught unaware by a gate at the end of the tunnel. He flipped over his bike and landed on his right shoulder in such a way that he needed surgery. What made everything worse was that he was a self-employed jeweler, who needed to use his shoulder, arm and hand to make a living, and he was not covered by health insurance.Debra Freidell arranged to have a surgeon and physical therapist advance services, to be eventually paid out of the proceeds of the case.

Despite the high standards set forth in the Kansas Tort Claims Act of proof against governmental entities, the claim settled at mediation for $60,000.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a personal injury attorney in Kansas City, MO that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.

Client originally hired Debra Freidell to represent her in a minor auto collision. She felt comfortable enough to return to Ms. Freidell for to have her will prepared; and then in 2004, when her 85-year-old dad died after 10 days in a nursing home, Ms. Freidell arranged for a meeting in which Client, her mom, and Ms. Freidell discussed a possible wrongful death lawsuit with one of the top nursing home negligence attorneys in the country.The most common nursing home cases include physical and sexual abuse by staff or other residents, malnutrition and dehydration, falls, elopement, medication errors, and pressure sores.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a personal injury attorney in Kansas City, MO that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.

Client was stopped at a stoplight when he was rear-ended by a dump truck. The impact was substantial ($2,000 property damage), and the dump truck driver caused soft tissue injuries to his back. Medical bills added up to nearly $10,000 because his ongoing physicians were being careful: He was already being treated for AIDS for the last eight years, although he was in great health, was attending a university to get a master’s degree in project management, and had no history of back pain or problems when he was hit. The insurance company would not make a suitable offer.Debra Freidell filed a lawsuit. As the case dragged on and on, it became clear that the elderly attorney for the old-fashioned law firm working for the dump truck’s insurance company thought Client was either going to be ashamed of his medical condition, or die first (they had no clue about the progress which has been made treating AIDS since the 1980’s), before they would have to pay any money. A few weeks before the case was set for trial, the case settled for $22,500.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a personal injury attorney in Kansas City, MO that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.

It was easy to get Client the $50,000 maximum insurance policy limits from the driver of the auto who collided with her, knocking her off the motorcycle she was riding as a passenger sitting behind her husband. Her husband’s health insurance provider had a lien on the settlement for her hospital bills, which was more than the entire $50,000. Debra Freidell negotiated with all parties so that everyone got a fair share of the proceeds.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a personal injury attorney in Kansas City, MO that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.

The general idea about sexual harassment is that, it won’t take too long, maybe twenty years, for human resources employees to figure out how to follow the rules so that employees don’t get hurt by sexual advances or conditions any more, and there are no more lawsuits to file against employers. But even in 2002, the conditions under which a young 21 year-old woman had to work in a Kansas City plant were so bad (such as co-employees grabbing their crotches, making “ooh-ahh” comments when she ate bananas at lunch break, and asking when she would flash her breasts at them like another woman employee was doing to get along with them) that, 5 months after she hired Ms. Freidell, she obtained $47,500 at mediation.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a personal injury attorney in Kansas City, MO that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.

Maximum policy limits of $25,000 to a 62-year-old retired private duty nurse, as the result of an auto collision suffering right knee and soft-tissue injuries. Client’s claim was weakened by the fact that she had pre-existing osteoporosis and left knee replacement surgery. Debra Freidell referred Client to a chiropractor who documented her injuries well, and waited until the settlement to be paid $4,187 for 50 chiropractic treatments.

About Debra D. Freidell
Debra Freidell is a personal injury attorney in Kansas City, MO that helps people who have suffered a serious personal injury or wrongful death due to someone’s negligence. Ms. Freidell has been practicing in the Kansas City area since 1989 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Click the links to learn more about Debra’s experience with personal injury cases, read testimonials, or to contact her Kansas City office.