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Recovering from a car accident can be a difficult endeavor. Accidents take physical, emotional, and financial tolls on victims, and a lawyer can help you and your family get justice, closure, and compensation.
Auto accidents might occur almost anywhere. Roads and major highways around Elkhart often see accidents. Areas where traffic might be denser include the local airport and hospital. Common causational factors include high rates of speed, bad weather, and distracted drivers. If you are in a collision, call for emergency assistance immediately. While waiting for help to arrive, take pictures of the crash and the surrounding area. Try to exchange details with other drivers and witnesses. These steps may make it easier for your lawyer to help you get compensation. Compensation should account for various damages, including but not limited to medical costs, property damage, lost income, emotional suffering, and physical pain.
For a free, private assessment of your claims, contact our car accident attorneys by calling Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
Numerous roads and highways around Elkhart have seen their fair share of crashes. Many drivers worry about accidents on major highways, like Toledo Road or the St. Joseph Parkway. Both these highways tend to be busy and run right through town. Drivers should always exercise caution on major highways.
Some places see a lot of accidents because they are important. Elkhart General Hospital can be risky for drivers because you never know whom you might encounter. A speeding driver might be urgently trying to get to the emergency room, and they might crash into you on their way to the hospital.
Elkhart has numerous bridges that span the St. Joseph River. While these bridges are part of roads and highways with strict speed limits and safety protocols, drivers might still cause accidents. Drivers sometimes swerve into oncoming traffic on the bridge because they fear crashing into the side and going over the edge.
Our car accident attorneys will help you consider various causational factors that might have influenced how your accident happened. For example, speeding drivers are dangerous and more likely to cause accidents. Alternatively, you might be injured by a negligent driver in bad weather. When the weather is bad, or visibility is low, drivers must exercise more caution on the road. One of the most prominent causes of accidents today is distracted driving. Cell phones, GPS devices, and even the radio may distract a driver long enough to cause a serious collision.
Your priority should be calling for emergency help. If you have a phone, call 911 and have emergency responders and the police sent to your location. Sometimes, drivers are hesitant to involve the police. The at-fault driver might pressure the other driver into excluding the police. Do the smart thing and contact law enforcement.
Depending on the accident's severity, the police might want to investigate thoroughly. You should talk to the police about what you experienced during the crash. They need your side of the story when they write a formal police report about the crash.
Photograph the area if you are able. Drivers often take pictures of car accidents immediately after they happen so they have something to show an insurance adjuster. However, these pictures can be used as evidence in the courtroom.
You should also exchange contact information with the other driver or drivers and others in the area who saw the accident or stopped to help. First, we need the other driver’s details to take legal action. Second, we might need the names and contact information of others at the scene who might testify as witnesses.
After getting necessary medical care, contact an attorney for assistance. It is best to start building your case as soon as possible. Under I.C. § 34-11-2-4(a)(1), a plaintiff has only two years to file a lawsuit after an accident. Talking to a lawyer soon after a crash allows you to maximize your time to prepare your claim.
Evidence is the lifeblood of your case, and we need as much of it as we can obtain to support your compensation claims. As said before, we can use photos and videos you recorded at the accident scene as evidence. Often, drivers capture important details in photos without realizing it.
We must also speak to other drivers, passengers, and witnesses involved in the accident. Maybe the driver behind you saw everything and can testify in court about how they saw the defendant crash into you. Maybe the passenger in the defendant’s car saw them texting before the crash and can testify about how distracted they were. Witness testimony is often the backbone of an injury lawsuit.
If need be, we can have an accident reconstruction expert review details and data collected about the accident and scientifically determine how it happened. These experts might look at your photos, review statements from witnesses, and review police reports about the accident to try and determine who is responsible.
Damages represent your injuries and losses and are often measured in money. A major source of damages in a car accident case is the cost of repairing or replacing the plaintiff’s damaged vehicle. Not only might you need to replace your totaled car, but you might need to pay for a temporary vehicle to drive while you wait for a new one.
Medical bills might also be quite substantial. Even if injuries are minor and require only one visit to the doctor, that single hospital visit might cost you thousands of dollars or more. People who need follow-up care or long-term treatment might incur massive medical debt.
If you are badly injured, you might need some time away from work to recover. People who take a longer time off from work often lose income as a result. If you lose income, you may include it in your damages calculations.
Non-economic damages account for painful experiences unrelated to money and are more subjective than economic losses. You deserve compensation for your physical pain, psychological suffering, humiliation, and other painful experiences.
For a free, private evaluation of your claims, speak to our car accident attorneys by calling 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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