Kansas City, Missouri Employment Law and Personal Injury Attorneys

Holman Schiavone, LLC

4600 Madison
Suite 810
Kansas City, Missouri 64112
USA

(866) 900-3832

(816) 283-8739

www.kdh-law.com

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Law Firm Overview

At Holman Schiavone, LLC, we understand that the circumstances leading up to a personal injury or employment law claim are emotionally and financially traumatic, so our staff does not require a first-meeting contract. Initial consultations are always free of charge, and we do not charge legal fees unless we recover damages for you.

While our legal tactics are aggressive when facing opponents, we are also genuinely dedicated to helping improve the quality of our clients' lives. We understand the stress that can be caused by pursuing litigation. Our lawyers focus on fully understanding personal injury and employment matters in order to provide tailored legal advice and representation. Kirk D. Holman and Anne W. Schiavone personally handle client communication from intake to verdict, and are always glad to answer questions.

We also welcome co-counsel and referrals. Our ability to focus on individual cases allows us to quickly assess complex situations and give thorough and accurate legal advice.

Our focus at Holman Schiavone, LLC, has always been on protecting the rights of individuals. Our attorneys represent individuals during difficult times arising from an injury or an adverse employment action. We are proud of our track record of success, and we will put our experience to work for each client. Dedicated to employment and personal injury law, we are ready to face even the toughest opponents.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Retaliation, Racial Harassment, Sexual Discrimination, Workplace Health & Safety

Practice Areas Description

- Age Discrimination
Have you been denied a promotion or seen a promotion given to another simply because he or she was a younger employee? Was it unfair? Was it due to your age? If you feel you are losing employee privileges, such as promotions and incentives, because of your age, it is possible you are being subjected to age discrimination in the workplace.

The American workforce is aging and many employers have the perception that older workers are less productive and more expensive. Employers may try to force older workers off the payroll by failing to promote, reducing job opportunities, and terminating them based on pretext. If you suspect you fall into these categories, you need to speak to an age discrimination attorney, who can explain what employers can and cannot do, and analyze your facts to help determine if you have been subject to age discrimination.

- Civil Rights
Civil rights law is the broad category of law from which employment law is drawn. Civil rights are those personal liberties guaranteed to every U. S. citizen, regardless of race, religion, sex, age or disabilities. The moral proposition that civil rights rest on is that no one should be punished for the circumstances into which they were born.

- Constitutional Law
Employees of state and federal agencies face unique problems when confronted with improper behavior by their superiors. Filing a suit against the government can be an intimidating task, but our staff at Holman Schiavone, LLC, is ready to face the challenge. Our legal experience in employment law extends all the way to the U.S. Constitution, and we are able to pursue your case no matter how far we have to go to vindicate your rights.

- Employment Law
While some of the higher-profile cases in the news deal with discrimination or harassment, many other conflicts can arise over the course of an employment relationship. Our staff can handle them all, whether you are a part of a multi-million dollar class-action suit, or simply an employee looking to have your legal rights respected. Our practice is prepared to litigate disputes dealing with wrongful termination, severance and non-competition agreements, workers' compensation, and various federal statutes such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and the Family and Medical Leave (FMLA).

- Labor Law
Labor law is a broad subsection of employment law that deals with the relationship between labor unions and other employee groups, and employers and their management. Many aspects of labor law demand the attention of skilled labor law attorneys due to the complex issues that can arise when labor and management face off. While employers generally have the upper hand due to their greater financial resources, our staff at Holman Schiavone, LLC, can help unions, and even individual employees, even the odds.

- Racial Discrimination
Race discrimination is defined as treating individuals differently in their employment because of their race, color, or ethnic origin. If this leads to a rejection for employment, firing, or other harm in your employment, then you may have cause for legal action. For example, you may discover that equally qualified employees of a different race are given higher pay or better sales territories.

- Racial Harassment
Offensive behavior that occurs because of your race is the basic component of racial harassment. Racial slurs, jokes, or stereotyping are all examples of the kinds of conduct that can make up racial harassment. This is true even if the behavior targets the race of your spouse or friends. It is possible for such harassment to rise to the level of racial discrimination if it is sufficiently frequent or severe to create an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment. If your employer does not adequately respond to proper complaints about such treatment, you should contact a racial harassment lawyer skilled in handling such complaints, such as Kirk D. Holman.

- Retaliation
At the law office of Holman Schiavone, LLC, we represent employees' rights. Our Kansas and Missouri employee rights practice includes, employer retaliation claims. Retaliation claims are based on any adverse action that your employer takes against you because you complained about harassment, discrimination, a health and safety violation, or some other violation of a workplace law (such as wage-and-hour law). These laws also protect you if you are a participant in an investigation of any of these problems. For example, your employer cannot punish you for giving a statement to a government agency that is looking into another employee's discrimination claim, or a general workplace safety problem.

- Sexual Discrimination
Sex or gender discrimination is generally illegal, and can cause injury by denying jobs, equal pay, benefits, promotions, or other things associated with successful employment. By treating you differently in the workplace specifically because you are physically or biologically a woman or man, an employer demonstrates "sexual" discrimination. Doing the same thing based on behavioral characteristics ("masculinity" or "femininity") is "gender" discrimination. Even if there is no direct threat to your job, sexual harassment can be considered a form of discrimination.

- Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment is unwelcome behavior that occurs because of your gender. This can include unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors, or verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. When submitting to or rejecting this conduct is made a basis for employment decisions, it is in your best interest to contact a sexual harassment attorney. Even if there is no employment decision involved, there may still be grounds for a suit if the conduct is sufficiently severe or pervasive that it creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.

- Workplace Health & Safety
If you have been terminated or discriminated against because you asked for an inspection or reported a hazardous condition, we can help you seek redress for this violation. Federal law governs many safety issues. As an employee, your rights under OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) are:

• Freedom to request an inspection of potential hazards
• To have your name withheld from your employer
• Freedom from discrimination or retaliatory action by employer
• To enjoy workplace safety standards and health programs
• Review statistics relevant to exposure and medical records

- Defective Medical Devices & Consumer Products
The attorneys at Holman Schiavone, LLC, in Kansas City, Missouri, have the experience and resources to effectively manage complex litigation involving medical device failures. There are typically two causes of medical device failures: design defects or manufacture defect. In the case of design defects, a product is inherently dangerous. Often these products are approved by the FDA based on faulty or incomplete testing data. Manufacture defects involve products produced using substandard material or improper manufacturing techniques.

- Pharmaceutical Litigation
The attorneys at Holman Schiavone, LLC, in Kansas City, Missouri, have the experience and resources to effectively manage complex pharmaceutical litigation. We recognize that defective drugs can cause debilitating injuries and in the most serious cases can result in death. Our lawyers are prepared to handle pharmaceutical litigation involving a wide range or defective drugs.

- Chemical Exposure
People filing a toxic injury lawsuit can seek compensation for clean up of the toxic substance, past and future medical expense, lost wages, and pain and suffering. Our attorneys are aggressive in pursuing all sources of financial recovery for our clients in tort cases. We often partner with other attorneys with specialties outside our range of expertise. We are committed to punishing the companies that created the health risk and ensuring that our clients obtain the resources necessary to move forward with their lives.

- Car & Motorcycle Accidents
At Holman Schiavone, LLC, in Kansas City, Missouri, our accident attorneys are committed to helping obtain optimal compensation for injuries resulting from car and motorcycle wrecks. While we are experienced trial lawyers, we strive to obtain settlements that allow our clients to avoid the time, stress, and uncertainty of a trial. Our attorneys present thorough and professional demand packages to the insurance companies, including medical records, medical bills, and an explanation of why we are seeking a specific level of compensation. When an agreement can not be reached, we aggressively pursue our client's interests at trial.

- Truck Accidents
Semi truck accidents are extremely complex. Not only are serious injuries all but inevitable when a thirty ton tractor-trailer runs into passenger vehicle, but the insurance issues are exceedingly complex. Determining which driver is at fault in a wreck is only the beginning. Often there are multiple insures involved even when the accident is clearly the fault of the truck driver. The driver typically has an insurance policy, the trucking company carries extensive insurance, and the load is often insured by a third party. In some cases determining damages is less difficult than figuring out which insurance company will cover them.

- Premises Liability
All too often when people think of slip and fall litigation, they picture a pratfall and a false claim of injury. At Holman Schiavone, LLC, in Kansas City, Missouri, we take premises liability cases seriously. Every year thousands of people are seriously injured as a result of poorly maintained property. Property owners are required to maintain safe, secure, and properly maintained premises. When their failure to do so is inadequate and results in a serious injury, we are committed to helping obtain compensation for the resulting injuries.

- Nursing Home Neglect
Nursing home negligence can take on many forms: physical abuse, mental abuse, and financial abuse. Many elderly people are too ashamed to report nursing home abuse. Some of the common negligence issues that lead to nursing home neglect lawsuits include:

• Severe infections resulting from decubitus ulcer or bed sores
• Improper nutrition or dehydration
• Theft of belongings or unexplained financial losses
• Improper restraints or lack of restraints
• Providing wrong medications or improper dosing
• Failure to monitor residents
• Sexual abuse
• Inadequately explained deaths

Our nursing home neglect lawyers are committed to helping individuals and families obtain compensation for the negligent actions of nursing home employees. We recognize that these lawsuits are stressful and emotionally draining. We are dedicated to providing compassionate legal services and aggressive representation. We provide every potential client with a free initial consultation to come in and discuss their case. We also handle all our nursing home negligence cases on a contingency basis.