Devkota Law Firm represents injury victims throughout Kansas City. Lead attorney Tarak Alexander Devkota, Esq., has recovered millions for clients injured in accidents across Kansas and Missouri over 27 years. We take cases from Kansas City MO, Bonner Springs, Edwardsville, Turner, Argentine, and all neighborhoods and communities within Wyandotte County.
Kansas City, KS sits directly on the Missouri state line. I-70, I-635, and I-435 run through the city. State Avenue, Parallel Parkway, 7th Street Trafficway, and the Kansas Turnpike carry heavy daily traffic. The city's commercial and industrial base including the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant, the warehouses and logistics operations near the Turner Diagonal, and the retail district around Village West generates vehicle accidents, workplace injuries, and premises liability claims throughout the year.
The two-year Kansas deadline under K.S.A. 60-513 passes while you are still in physical therapy, and the right to file is permanently lost
The insurer assigns you 50% or more fault under K.S.A. 60-258a, and Kansas law bars your entire recovery a result that would not occur under Missouri's pure comparative fault rule
Physical evidence from the accident scene skid marks, debris patterns, surveillance footage from nearby businesses is gone within days because no one sent a spoliation letter
A separate claim exists against a trucking company, a property owner, or a product manufacturer, and you never file it because the at-fault driver's insurer settled your claim before all liable parties were identified
K.S.A. 60-513 Statute of Limitations. Kansas gives you two years from the date of the accident to file a personal injury lawsuit. This applies to car crashes, truck collisions, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian strikes, slip and fall injuries, dog bites, and most other negligence claims filed in Wyandotte County District Court. Miss this deadline and the court will dismiss your case. Missouri gives five years under RSMo 516.120. If your accident happened within blocks of the state line, which state's clock applies to you can mean the difference between a live claim and a dead one.
K.S.A. 60-258a Modified Comparative Fault. Kansas compares your fault against the defendant's. Your damages are reduced by your fault percentage. If a jury assigns you 50% or more of the fault, you recover nothing. Missouri, by contrast, follows a pure comparative fault rule you can recover at any fault level below 100%. Insurance adjusters working Wyandotte County claims know this gap and will argue for Kansas law when the accident location is ambiguous, because the Kansas rule is cheaper for them. Your personal injury attorney in Kansas City, KS, must pin down the accident location and lock in the correct state's law early.
Hilburn v. Enerpipe Ltd., 310 Kan. 1 (2019) No Cap on Non-Economic Damages. The Kansas Supreme Court struck down the statutory cap on pain and suffering damages for general personal injury cases. After Hilburn, there is no ceiling on what a Wyandotte County jury can award for pain, suffering, emotional distress, or loss of enjoyment of life. The exception is medical malpractice, where the cap under K.S.A. 60-19a02 remains in effect.
K.S.A. 40-3104 Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Coverage. Kansas law requires insurers to offer UM/UIM coverage with every auto policy. If the at-fault driver had no insurance or a minimum-limits policy, your own UM/UIM coverage may fill the gap. Your own insurer will dispute the claim just as aggressively as the at-fault driver's carrier would.
Kansas City, KS, and Kansas City, MO, share a metro area, a name, and several border crossings but they do not share personal injury laws. An accident on the Kansas side of I-70 near the 18th Street Expressway falls under K.S.A. 60-513 (two years, 50% fault bar). The same accident 500 feet east on the Missouri side falls under RSMo 516.120 (five years, pure comparative fault, no fault bar). The police report lists the jurisdiction. Your attorney must verify it against the actual GPS coordinates of the collision, because a mis-coded report can place the accident in the wrong state.
Kansas City, KS, sits on the state line. An accident on I-70 at the 18th Street Expressway may fall under Kansas or Missouri law depending on the exact location. We verify jurisdiction from the first consultation and build the claim under the correct state's statutes because the filing deadline, the fault rules, and the damages rule all change at the border.
A crash on I-635 may involve the other driver's liability policy, a trucking company's commercial policy, your own UM/UIM coverage under K.S.A. 40-3104, and a product manufacturer's coverage. We trace every party and every dollar of available coverage.
We take every case on a contingency fee basis. No upfront costs. No hourly fees. We collect a fee only if we recover money for you. Your first consultation is free.
