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I was in a car accident, hit by a semi truck the summer of 2019. I knew as soon as I began having neck and back pain, I needed an attorney. I came across Sauter and Sullivan. I was connected with Carolyn Caruthers and I couldn't have been happier with her work. She helped me get the medical treatment I needed (chiropractor, physical therapy, pain injections, pain management and I saw a neuro surgeon)and listened to my every concern. I was included in all the decisions of the case from start to finish. I missed four months of work and the medical bills were out of this world. Once the case was settled, all the bills were paid and I was compensated for the time at work missed and all of the pain and suffering I endured and some! Carolyn took very good care of me and I recommend her services to anyone in the position I was in, I couldn't have asked for a better person to be by my side and have such excellent communication as she did. 10/10!!!
Maggie Dorian- “The day before Thanksgiving, we were rear-ended pushing us into the car in front of us. The accident caused over 10,000 dollars in damage to our car and my husband and I both suffered neck and back injuries.”
Michael Dorian- “My injuries from the accident required surgery from my c2 to t3 vertebrae. I was no longer able to work, and I had months of physical therapy.”
Maggie Dorian- “My doctor referred me to a physical therapist. The physical therapist was the one who gave us Chris’ name, so we reached out to the Sauter Sullivan law firm. Chris did an amazing job on our case. As a matter of fact, we were in another collision last year and Chris Geldmacher was my second call. My first call was to 911. I would highly recommend Chris Geldmacher or anyone at the Sauter Sullivan law firm. He has represented us in two different accident cases now and him and his team do outstanding work.”
Michael Dorian- “Chris took great care with our case, and I would highly recommend him to anyone for anything legal. If Sauter Sullivan can’t help, he will direct you to a person who can.”
Loved working with this firm! I was referred to Sauter Sullivan by one of my professors from college. He recommended Christopher Geldmacher to me. I still remember the first day I walked in. I was in so much pain. I was down, depressed, and defeated. I didn't know what to do, and my injuries felt permanent. Chris took my case and IMMEDIATELY went to work on helping me get the treatment I needed for my accident. He gave me great advice the entire time and made sure I received fair compensation for my car accident and the surgery and treatments that followed. I couldn't be happier! The next time I hear anything about a personal injury from someone I know, I will be recommending them to this firm. Specifically to Chris.
“I was stopped at a traffic light with my son and my daughter in the car when I was smashed in to by a big truck. My kids were both hurt really bad in the truck crash, especially my son, who had serious brain injuries. Both of them will have issues for the rest of their lives because of this accident. I was so upset when it happened I didn’t know what to do, so I called Kevin Sullivan from the Sauter Sullivan law firm. Kevin was amazing. He actually met me at the hospital and made me feel better right away…because I knew it wasn’t about the money with him…he was really worried about the well-being of me and my kids. I honestly felt like God had wrapped me in his arms and said everything was going to be OK, and I felt better about things because Kevin was there for me. He made me feel safe. He helped me with the claim against the trucking company whose driver hit my car, and he got a settlement for my kids that will take care of them and all their medical needs for the rest of their lives. Nothing can replace the well-being of my kids, but at least they’ll always be able to get the special medical attention they’re always going to need, and that’s because of Kevin. Even when everything was done, Kevin helped me find the places and programs that my son and daughter needed for their ongoing rehabilitation. He’s always there for me when I need him.
What else can I say? Kevin is always fair and honest and will always give you the straight truth, whether it’s good news or bad news. If I hear someone talking about needing a lawyer, I tell them they should call Kevin Sullivan. I tell them he is laid back and easy going…when you talk to Kevin it’s just like talking to a friend or neighbor. I’ve had other attorneys in the past, but none like Kevin. He’s an honest and real guy, and I can’t thank him enough for all he’s done for me and my kids.”
Tracy Federhofer – “Over the past four or five years, we have had some bad luck in our family. First it was our uncle who got hit and injured in a car accident. Chris helped get his van repaired and get him compensation for his injuries. Next, I was involved in a collision where a guy hit the side of my car really hard. Even worse, my nephew, Becky’s son, was in the car with me. I messed up my back and had to miss work for a while as I was getting treatment for my injuries. Chris was able to get me a fair settlement that covered my medical bills, lost wages, and paid me for the pain and suffering I had to go through. He also got money for Becky’s son for his injuries that she was able to put into a savings account for him. After that, I was involved in a car accident while riding with a friend. The person who hit us had no insurance. The accident totally messed up my back again. I didn’t even know that we were going to have an accident claim since the other driver didn’t have insurance. Thank God for Chris. He found insurance coverage and got me compensation for my injuries again. Finally, I had another car crash where my dad was driving. He was at fault, but his insurance company did not want to pay. Chris fought with the insurance company and made them pay an amount which was fair. Mr. Geldmacher really knows his stuff and does what he needs to do to help his clients. He always kept me up to date on the status of my cases. He’s a really good guy. I always tell people to call Chris if they need help.”
Becky Federhofer– “Chris handled my son’s case, which Tracy told you about, but I had my own car accident when I was a passenger in my uncle’s van. We were stopped at a red light at Potomac and South Grand in South St. Louis a gal on a cell phone barreled into the rear of our van. I was 8 months pregnant at the time. I went to the ER because my back was hurting, and because I wanted the baby to be checked out. Turns out the baby was fine, thankfully. Mr. Geldmacher handled the whole thing for me. He had to file a lawsuit, because the insurance company wasn’t offering a fair amount. We settled the case before trial. That little bit of extra money came right at Christmas time, and it was a blessing for my two babies, because I was able to give them the Christmas I wanted them to have. Mr. Geldmacher is a good person and a good lawyer. He’s a sweetheart. He is really polite, and he really cares. I don’t know what I would have done if Chris Geldmacher wasn’t there to fight with the insurance company for me.”
“I cannot thank Kevin Sullivan enough for all he’s done for me. I admire his skills and talent, and I trust him completely. He did a bang up job for me and my buddy, Bob, when we were both hurt in a horrible truck accident. I was a State Trooper with the Highway Patrol for over 33 years, and a private investigator for many years after that, so I know a thing or two about the law, and Kevin is the best. Here’s what happened. Several years ago, Bob and I were involved in a terrible truck crash that injured us both pretty seriously. We were heading out to go fishing at Broken Bow Lake in Oklahoma, and we stopped my pickup truck off the road on a scenic overlook to stretch and take a break. There was a concrete barrier that protected the edge of the overlook from a steep, rocky slope. Bob and I had hopped over that barrier to relieve ourselves, and we had just climbed back onto the parking area when we heard wheels roaring on the “chatter bars” or “rumble strips” on the side of the pavement, you know, those grooves that make noise when you drive on them to wake you up. I looked up and saw a big tractor-trailer barreling down the road toward us out of control. I saw the driver’s head jerk up like he’d been asleep at the wheel and he had that ‘holy moly” look on his face. I bet he was going 50 miles an hour down that steep grade, even though there are signs everywhere warning trucks to slow down for those hills. The truck was a few hundred yards away and heading into the concrete barrier. Bob and I ran for that wall and just as we hopped over it, the truck slid down along that concrete wall and was heading right at us. The truck split apart from the impact and its load of 1800 car tires was flying everywhere. I was halfway over the wall when the tires and debris hit me, and I bounced 100 or more feet down the hill with tires bouncing all over and around me. My buddy had gotten over the wall just before me, and he was pinned and totally covered by tires and pieces of the trailer. The truck ended up smashing into my pickup.
I was bruised and messed up all over but somehow I managed to get up the hill to try and help my friend. I could hear him moaning under the pile of debris and did my best to uncover him. I couldn’t get him out all the way, but I got to where I could see his face buried in sawdust and planting mulch. He wasn’t breathing and I thought he might be dead. I got his head up tried to get the stuff out of his mouth. There was too much junk and debris in the way so I couldn’t get in to do CPR on him, so I pulled his arm back as far as I could, held his head, and punched him in the ribs as hard as I could. I hit him twice while I’m yelling ‘breathe you son of a bitch’. The second time I hit him he spit out the sawdust and started breathing, but just barely. I yelled to someone who had stopped up on the hill and told them to get the highway patrol and tell them to send a helicopter life flight. I held onto Bob until help arrived. The rescue crew took over, and I got to the top of the hill, then fell to the ground. They flew my friend to the hospital by helicopter, and took me in an ambulance.
They checked me out at the hospital and I was sore and hurting all over, but they sent me home with some medicine. I saw my doctor the next day and he took one look at me and immediately sent me to an orthopedic specialist. Turns out I had multiple injuries including black and blue marks up and down the right side of my body, tire marks across my chest, ribcage and back and multiple contusions and swollen areas. I had severe pain in my ribs, chest, back, right hip, left hand and my groin area. It hurt like hell every time I even moved. I couldn’t even wear a brace for my back and other injuries because of all the bruising and swelling and pain, and I had to wait for weeks before I could even start therapy. The doctors found out I had cracked my ribs, which is extremely painful, and all you can do is wait for them to heal. I ended up having surgery on my hand and my hip, and I still have issues with those. And to make matters worse, I started having nightmares, sleeplessness and anxiety as a result of the accident. The doctors put me on anti-depressants and sleep aids, and they said I had the classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. I also had vertigo and dizziness, but that seems to have gone away, and I’ve got Tinnitus now, that annoying ringing in your ears.
But I consider myself pretty lucky to be alive. I’ve still got issues from the accident, more than the everyday aches and pains people talk about for sure, but I’m getting along. I don’t know what I would have done without Kevin Sullivan and the Sauter Sullivan law firm. Kevin filed suit for me against the trucking company and got me a settlement that covered all my medical bills and made them pay for their negligence. And Becky Griffin, a paralegal at his office helped me all along the way, too, with logistics and paperwork and everything. When something got screwed up, Becky unscrewed it. She’s the best. But we had a fight on our hands. That trucking company was totally in the wrong and they didn’t want to settle this thing, and they had some big law firm fighting us…but I tell you what, Kevin used his legal skills on that big law firm and he wowed everybody and made them look bad. He was totally prepared and handled everything with great skill. Even the judge scolded those other lawyers for not settling this thing sooner because they were so obviously in the wrong. Kevin really knows and believes in the law, and I think he is a great American. Amen, Brother!
Kevin also helped my buddy, Bob...when the hospital sent him a bill for $7000 for that helicopter ride, and the trucking company refused to pay it, Kevin got in there and took care of things for Bob, too. My buddy’s doing better now, thank God, but his is another story…
“I was injured when I was rear ended in a car accident…I think the kid who hit me was texting…and Carolyn Caruthers did a great job helping me with all the insurance paperwork and claims. I had 2 herniated discs from the auto accident, which were extremely painful. I’m a substitute elementary school teacher, and I had a long-term commitment to teach, and I needed a couple rounds of injections to deal with the pain so I could continue to work. It was tough. My husband and I aren’t “the lawyer type”, and we didn’t even think about contacting a lawyer until the medical expenses started piling up, and we kept hearing doctors telling us to make sure we got all our information to our lawyers. We finally decided that there was no way we could handle all the medical costs, and we contacted Carolyn Caruthers at the Sauter Sullivan law firm to see if they could help. Carolyn was great. It turns out the kid who hit me only had the state minimum coverage on his insurance, and Carolyn negotiated with his insurance carrier to get me the maximum settlement under his policy. But that was nowhere near enough to cover all the medical bills. Next, Carolyn contacted my own auto insurance company and made a claim for me under our underinsured motorist coverage. Carolyn told them point blank we wouldn’t be settling for any low ball amount, and that she would fight for me to get everything we deserved under our insurance. The insurance representative…the adjuster or whatever you call them…said, ‘I’ll have to call you back’, because he was going to make a low offer to settle. Carolyn pushed for us and got things settled so all that not only all of my medical bills were covered but also to compensate me for the injuries I sustained. If it hadn’t been for Carolyn Caruthers, we wouldn’t have had any idea how to handle this, and we’d probably have settled for half of what we ended up with, just because we didn’t know how the system works. It was a long process, but Carolyn kept us informed all the way through with periodic updates so I never wondered where things stood. She did a great job for me.”
“In June of 2012 I was stopped in traffic on highway 270 in St. Louis when a pickup truck crashed into me hard from behind. I was knocked unconscious and I ended up in the hospital with a broken wrist and pinkie finger, and bruises and abrasions on my arm. I also had awful abrasions and wounds on my face and that’s what really scared me, because I’m a young woman in my early 20’s, and I didn’t want to be disfigured for life or anything. I was so self-conscious about my face after the accident, I hardly went out for months.
The police report said the driver of the pickup was texting and not paying attention when he hit me, and that he couldn’t provide proof of insurance. That’s when I talked to my family and we decided I better talk to a lawyer. My aunt said someone else in the family had used the Sauter Sullivan law firm and they liked them, so I called Kevin Sullivan. Kevin was really helpful right from the start. He found out the guy who hit me did have auto accident insurance and filed a claim for me. I was really concerned about how I was going to deal with all the medical bills that were coming in. That was my first question to Kevin. ‘When am I going to get the insurance money to pay these bills?’ He told me all the steps of the process so I would know what to expect, and that he would help me all the way through. It turns out that my own insurance company wasn’t processing some of my medical bills properly, and Kevin and his paralegal Becky helped get all that straightened out for me. When the insurance company for the guy who hit me finally settled my claim, they paid the maximum amount of the guy’s coverage, and that helped me cover all my medical bills, and compensated me for the fact that my face was damaged and that I’ll probably have real problems with arthritis and my hand in the future because of the accident. When the case was finally all settled and done, Kevin told me, ‘Hope, I want you to think of me as your lawyer for life. If you ever need legal advice for anything, you just call me. I’m there for you.’ And he has been. Even after the claim was settled, Kevin has helped me deal with the creditors for all those medical bills so I can get all this totally behind me. I know he’s there for me and I recommend him to anyone who needs legal help.”
“Carolyn Caruthers from the Sauter Sullivan Law Firm is awesome! I was injured in a car accident and I wasn’t the only one at fault. I was driving down the highway and there were two extended cab trucks, one with a trailer, almost completely stopped in the fast lane. These guys in the trucks were trying to make an illegal u-turn right in the middle of the highway by using the cut through lane for police and emergency vehicles! I couldn’t stop fast enough and slammed right into them. My airbags went off and my car spun around and was totaled. I injured my kneecap and had to have surgery on it, and I also hurt my thumb, elbow and a finger pretty badly. My face was bumped up from the airbags, too…it literally broke my sunglasses when they went off. I had whiplash that gave me problems with vertigo for a while after the accident, and lots of physical therapy. And I missed almost 8 weeks of work because of the truck accident. Now I know it was partly my fault, but those guys were at fault, too, because they were doing something illegal and pretty much stopped in the fast lane of the highway. I knew Kevin Sullivan, so we called his office, and he set us up with Carolyn to help us. Carolyn was great! The whole case took almost 2 years to get settled, but she kept me informed all the way through, and explained everything in “people” terms so I could understand it all and know what everything meant. The case never went to court, because a mediator was assigned to work out a deal between the parties. She went to bat for me, and in the end, Carolyn got me a settlement that took care of all my hospital and medical bills, my physical therapy costs, my lost wages and even my pain and suffering. Thank you, Carolyn!”