New Website

Missouri Personal Injury Attorney Matt Uhrig: I would like to welcome all my friends, clients and prospective clients to our new website. It is our hope that the information there will further our mission of helping people with workers compensation claims and helping people injured as a result of auto, truck and car accidents, semi and tractor trailer crashes, medical malpractice and other types of personal injury cases. Our personal injury law firm accepts cases and represents clients in Columbia, Jefferson City, Fulton, Moberly, Mexico, Macon, Osage Beach, Camdenton, Rolla, Springfield, Booneville, Kansas City metro area, St. Louis metro area and St. Charles.

Missouricaraccidentlawyer-personalinjuryattorney.com is where I will be blogging and posting helpful information for my clients. I wont be posting here on a regular basis, although updates will appear here (above).

If you are injured and want to talk to a lawyer, call toll free (877) 657-2050 or contact us by e-mail. We will come to you and it won’t cost you anything to see if we can help.

Workers Compensation - BP Oil Rig

Reports have been surfacing for some time that the night the Deep Water Horizon (the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that exploded and is now spewing thousands of barrels of oil) exploded, BP officials "quarantined" the surviving workers at a hotel and asked them to sign liability releases and statements before allowing them to go home to their families. This story has more information: Rig workers asked to sign statements

Missouri DWI/DUI - Auto Safety

I have represented many clients who were injured as a result of drunk driving. I have also represented quite a few drunk drivers in criminal cases and, as a prosecutor for Jackson County and the City of Columbia, I have prosecuted a couple hundred DWI cases. Consequently, I stay updated and informed regarding Missouri's DWI laws.

Missouri's Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) laws have changed again. Currently, the presumed intoxication limit is .o8% or more by weight of alcohol in a driver's blood. That means if your blood alcohol content is .o8% or more, you are legally intoxicated under Missouri law.

Governor Nixon signed a new law on Wednesday that will make some significant changes to the way DWI's are handled in Municipal and State court. One of the most significant changes is a provision in the new law that allows for the creation of special DWI courts that will function in a manner similar to Missouri's Drug Courts. I presume the focus will be on treatment but it sounds like the DWI Court will also serve as a monitoring system for repeat offenders.

Also, in those courts that have a DWI court program or other court ordered treatment program, drivers who had a blood alcohol content of .15 or more will have to serve 48 hours in jail should they fail to complete the DWI court program or court ordered treatment program.

Read about other provisions of the new law here. If you have questions about this new law or other DWI related issue, call me at 877-657-2050 or find me on the web.