If injured by a car accident, you have a legal claim action against the driver and his insurance company to recover all the damages you sustained.  Your damages include medical expenses, wage loss damages, pain and suffering, and disability/disfigurement damages.  If the other driver does not have enough insurance, you may have an uninsured or under insured motorist claim.  How much money you’ll get depends on the facts of the accident, how bad your injuries are, and the amount of insurance coverage.  Call us at any stage of your claim - whether the accident was recent, old, or even if you tried to handle it yourself but have been unable to or the insurance company won’t be fair to you.  Once hired to pursue your claim, we aggressively investigate the facts, take statements/pictures, or hire experts if needed.  We do try to settle these claims quickly, but also file suit and try these cases before a jury should the other side’s insurance company refuse to pay you what is fair.  Auto accidents, truck crashes and motorcycle incidents are one of our specialties.

If you or your family need to retain a lawyer for a case, you may not know how to choose a law firm, but here are some things to think about:

Will the named partner handle my  file, or will it be referred out or to a new or inexperienced lawyer?  At Cantor and Burger, the case will be handled by Mark Cantor or Gary Burger, or both, and not referred to another attorney.

Has the lawyer had experience in these cases?  At Cantor and Burger, we routinely handle serious injury automobile truck and motorcycle cases and know how to win these cases.  We have over 40 years of combined experience and will work hard to maximize your recovery.

Does the law firm have the resources available to pursue my case?  At Cantor and Burger we finance our own cases and never ask our clients for money to pursue the case.  If we are unwilling to put our money into the case, we will not handle it.  If we do agree to represent you and your family, we are well funded and will put in the money necessary to win.  We also have a vast network of experts all over the United States who are willing to assist us in providing expert testimony that is frequently necessary to win.

Is the lawfirm all marketing or do they really go to Court? Gary and Mark are in Court, depositions, trials and hearings routinely.  The bar makes us say “the choice of a lawyer is an important decision and should not be based solely on marketing”.  It is true.  Are you falling for a slick well produced high end television commercial or do you want an attorney who will actually handle your case personally and be in court for you? We will!!!

At Cantor and Burger, Mark Cantor and Gary Burger routinely win these cases.  We file lawsuits and aggressively pursue the insurance companies and defendants until they have no choice but to pay our clients what they are owed for their injuries.  We handle the cases ourselves and Mark Cantor or Gary Burger, or both of us, will represent you.  Some recent examples of Mark and Gary’s successes are:

$1.325 Million SETTLEMENT

Mark Cantor and Gary Burger represented Connie Wills who sustained severe injuries when a piece of playground equipment fell off the back of a truck on Highway 270.  The case was successfully resolved in August 2011 after suit was filed and a time limited demand was made upon multiple insurers.  Connie did not strike the playground equipment but instead swerved to miss it, hitting the median and was then struck by two other vehicles.  She sustained serious injuries and we were able to get her this large recovery.  After Mark filed the lawsuit,  Gary took depositions of the defendants and witnesses and also deposed Connie by video in her hospital bed. We set up a Supplemental Needs Trust to put the settlement money in so Connie could still get her Medicare and Social Security benefits and use  the money for her needs.

$570,000  Stacked Coverage Recovery

Mark Cantor was interviewed and featured in the Prestigious legal publication Missouri Lawyers Weekly recently  for the $570,000.00 settlement he obtained for his seriously injured client, a young college Freshman who was a passenger in an automobile accident. Prior to filing a lawsuit, the insurance company for the defense had represented that the only money available was $250,000.00 but they paid double that amount after Mark sued them for his client.

In Mark’s interview he discusses how he was able to stack the liability insurance of Defendant to double his client’s recovery. The state of Missouri does not limit a victim’s recovery to one policy of insurance. Instead, if multiple policies extend coverage, the victim is permitted to stack the coverage for a greater total recovery. This commonly occurs in uninsured motorist coverage claims, but it generally does not occur for liability coverage, so this was an excellent result.

$495,000 VERDICT

Gary Burger tried for Kim Wensler against Kim’s own insurance company who refused to settle the uninsured motorist claim.  Kim was riding a motorcycle on a dirt road in rural Missouri when a truck came going the other way.  Kim skidded, lost control and went under the truck and was injured.  Her injuries were severe and her medical was high.  Gary tried this case to a jury in the City of St. Louis and got a $495,000 verdict.

$625,000 SETTLEMENT

Gary Burger and Mark Cantor settled a case for Kate McDonald who had head injuries following a motor vehicle accident. As they were leaving the bar the friend immediately had an accident. A challenge in this case was overcoming the fact that Kate and her friend were drinking and her friend drove and Kate gave the keys to her friend. Gary was able to succeed over that obstacle and got a great recovery for Kate. We hired an expert regarding future medical and life care needs, created drawings about her head and brain surgeries, and maximized her damages. She’s using that money wisely and saving it for her future.