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Accidents happen all the time, and recovering from injuries might be more painful and expensive than some people can handle. Speak to an attorney about filing a personal injury claim against the person who caused your injuries.
If you were hurt in an accident, contact an attorney after you have received any necessary medical care. You have a limited time window after an accident to take legal action. If you do not file your case on time, you might be barred from filing a civil claim for damages. To begin preparing your case, we need evidence. We can contact the police if there is an investigation to see if there is a report we can use to find evidence. We can also use evidence you gathered yourself, such as photos of the accident scene. Some common claims our team has worked on before include construction injuries, slip and fall accidents, vehicle collisions, and injuries in nursing home facilities. Damages might be quite considerable. Medical bills, the value of destroyed property, and lost income from being unable to work should all be considered.
Get a confidential case review at no cost by calling our personal injury attorneys at Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
After an accident, you should take time to rest and recover from your injuries. You might also need some time to consider your legal options. While you should take the time you need, you should be mindful of the statute of limitations. This law limits the time plaintiffs have to file cases with the courts. If the deadline passes and you have not filed your case, you might lose your right to do so. Laws like this prevent old cases that are too remote from being filed.
The statute of limitations for personal injury claims in Indiana can be found under I.C. § 34-11-2-4(a)(1). Under the law, plaintiffs have two years from the date they were injured to submit a formal complaint and start a lawsuit. The time limit is not as generous as it might appear. A plaintiff and their lawyer might spend months gathering the evidence and information needed to start the lawsuit. You might need even more time to prepare your case in more complex cases.
If the deadline is near and you need more time, talk to our personal injury attorneys about having the statute of limitations tolled. Tolling pauses the clock and allows plaintiffs more time if they meet certain criteria. According to I.C. § 34-11-6-1, plaintiffs under a disability when an accident happens have two years from the day the disability is lifted or ceases.
A disability often includes the plaintiff being underage or having a mental disability that prevents them from understanding their legal rights. If you were a minor when you were hurt, you have two years from the day you turn 18. For those with mental disabilities or disorders, the statute of limitation kicks in whenever the disability resolves.
Finding evidence can be a difficult task to accomplish. In some cases, evidence is hard to come by, and proving your claims is an uphill battle. Our team has experience with evidence and can help you find what you need.
First, call the police and report your accident. In cases like car accidents, people might be legally required to contact law enforcement. If you are unsure about whether to get the police involved, call them anyway. They may investigate and write a formal report. If your injuries stem from the defendant’s criminal actions, they may be arrested, and the police will almost certainly conduct an investigation.
Police investigations might uncover all sorts of evidence we did not know existed. They can also interview witnesses and preserve physical evidence that we might obtain for your civil claim.
Some evidence you can gather yourself. For example, after being injured, try to take pictures of the area around the accident. Often, accident scenes are cleaned up relatively quickly, and evidence might be lost. By photographing the accident scene yourself, you might preserve important details we need to support your claims.
Depending on where your accident happened, security camera footage might show how the defendant caused your injuries. Maybe you were hurt on a construction site, and video cameras recorded everything. Maybe you were in a car accident, and traffic cameras caught the crash on video. Video evidence is often very powerful and difficult for defendants to refute. If it exists, we should try to obtain it.
Our team has experience with various personal injury claims. Considering how broad this field of law is, it is important to work with a lawyer familiar with your type of claim.
The construction industry is dangerous, and workers often require training and safety gear to do their jobs. People get hurt when the work environment is not up to par, and safety standards are not met. Falls are common construction accidents. You might have fallen from a high ladder or unstable scaffolding. Alternatively, you might have been injured by a defective power tool, and we can sue the manufacturer.
The property owner might be responsible if you were hurt because you slipped and fell on someone else’s property. In a premises liability case, plaintiffs may sue property owners if they failed to safely maintain the property for guests. You might sue a private homeowner or even a business if some hazardous condition on the property causes you to fall and become injured.
If you or someone you know lives in a nursing home, you might be dealing with negligent or even abusive staff members and caregivers. People who reside in nursing homes often rely on professional caregivers for most of their daily needs. When caregivers are negligent or abusive, injuries occur. In such a case, call an attorney and report the abuse to the police.
Get a confidential case review at no cost by calling our personal injury attorneys at Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
Don is a founding partner and one of the nation’s top-ranked personal injury litigators. He is a member of the Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum, which includes less than 1% of the nation’s trial lawyers, and awarded the highest ranking given by Martindale Hubbel and AVVO.
More importantly, Don understands representing personal injury victims is about more than recovering the best settlement: it’s about helping clients get back on their feet and supporting them in every aspect of their recovery.
In nearly all cases, our clients seek compensation from the wrongdoer’s insurance company. Before forming Wruck Paupore, Jason worked for a prominent law firm representing some of the world’s largest insurers. This experience gives Jason a deep understanding of the insurance industry and the strategies it uses to pay injury victims as little as possible.
Jason -- and our entire team -- put this inside knowledge to work to force insurance companies to pay what is actually owed. Often, we use the insurance company’s own tactics against them as we fight for the full compensation our client deserves.
For more than four decades, Keith has been fighting for injury victims. During that time, he’s watched the insurance industry change, with insurers now more interested in protecting their stock price than treating injury victims fairly.
Since the beginning, Keith has put people first. From his childhood in Gary, Indiana during the 1960’s and working his way through law school, Keith has risen to become one of the Midwest’s most respected trial lawyers. He has never forgotten that being a lawyer is about helping people -- and seeing injury victims through struggles in a way that could change their lives forever.
Over the decades, Keith, Don and Jason have fought relentlessly for clients, even when other lawyers have said the case was impossible to win.
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