Practice Guides

The Missouri Injury & Insurance Law Blog is organized around five core issues practice guides for lawyers handling Missouri injury, insurance coverage, bad faith, and litigation disputes. The guides are designed to help readers find relevant articles by issue, category, and tag. You can go to one of the practice guides below to discover topics relevant to each practice area.

Each guide provides a high-level framework for a major area of Missouri practice and points readers toward related subjects. The goal is to make the site easier to use when a lawyer is researching a specific problem: coverage, liability, damages, insurer conduct, settlement structure, discovery, trial practice, or electronic evidence.

The guides are starting points, not substitutes for detailed legal research. A single case may involve more than one guide because injury claims, coverage questions, bad-faith issues, and litigation procedure often overlap.

Available Practice Guides

Missouri Insurance Law

Find articles on insurance coverage, policy interpretation, duty to defend, reservation of rights, commercial coverage, professional liability coverage, procurement issues, coverage litigation, and insurance recovery.

Missouri Personal Injury

Find articles on negligence, causation, damages, comparative fault, parties, defenses, limitations, settlement approval, wrongful death, and the connection between injury litigation and insurance recovery.

Missouri Insurance Bad Faith

Find articles on insurer conduct, first-party insurer-remedy issues, third-party bad faith, duty to settle, wrongful refusal to defend, claims handling, excess exposure, settlement demands, and insurance recovery.

Missouri Trial & Litigation Practice

Find articles on pleadings, discovery, depositions, experts, motions, evidence, trial presentation, jury instructions, preservation, judgment enforcement, post-trial practice, and appeal.

Artificial Intelligence and Electronic Evidence in Missouri Injury & Insurance Practice

Find articles on AI-assisted policy review, electronic claim files, insurer use of automated tools, digital evidence, discovery, authentication, and how electronic records affect coverage, claims handling, bad faith, and litigation proof.

How to Use the Practice Guides

Start with the guide closest to the issue of interest. The guide pages provide a framework, and the related categories and topic tags lead to articles addressing narrower questions. Readers can move from a broad guide to more specific articles as the problem becomes more focused.