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Unfortunately, other people’s negligence can impact your life at any moment. When you have been the victim of a personal injury, our lawyers can explain how you can get compensation for your losses.
Our team has decades of collective experience covering a broad range of personal injury claims. Many clients need compensation for damages they sustained when a negligent driver hit them. Others are harmed because their healthcare providers negligently cared for them. Whatever the case, we can determine the liable parties and the extent of your damages. Perhaps your car accident was actually caused by a commercial driver, or your malpractice injuries were caused by a combination of your doctor’s and nurses’ negligence. Our attorneys will ensure each person who contributed to your damages is named in your claim.
Contact Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166 for a free case assessment with our personal injury attorneys.
Negligence can manifest in countless ways, but when you are injured by it, you likely need support. Each type of personal injury claim has its own challenges, so you need a firm that has the experience to understand what difficulties might be in your case. Whether you were injured in a minor vehicle accident or the victim of your doctor’s malpractice, our personal injury lawyers can help devise strategies to recoup your damages. The following are some of the most common Hobart claims we handle:
Car accident cases arguably top the list of the most common our team litigates. Even the most straightforward crashes can leave damages that might not be fully appreciated until later. For instance, you might have a strained neck after a fender bender but did not feel much pain initially. After a day or two, the pain might be much more severe, and you discover upon examination that you have nerve damage requiring significant treatment. This is why you should go straight to the emergency room after a car accident.
Claims will also be more complex when multiple drivers are potentially responsible for the collision. The driver that hit you might not have been the one to cause the initial accident but have contributed to it with their own negligence. For example, if the driver that hit you was speeding but crashed into you because a third driver cut them off, both can be held responsible for their part in the accident.
Vehicle accidents involving commercial truck drivers usually have additional layers of complexity. The evidence needed to prove these cases is usually complex and difficult to recover. It can also be challenging to prove the cause of the accident if a defect with the truck caused it. Expert witnesses are often needed to testify to how a driver, their employer, or a truck manufacturer were negligent since the analysis is beyond most laypeople’s knowledge.
Of course, no accident would be best. Still, if there is one silver lining in these cases, it is that we can usually name the trucking company as a defendant along with the truck driver, even if the driver was the only one to act negligently. This principle is known as “vicarious liability” and will give you more sources to recover compensation.
Claims for motorcycle accidents can be challenging for victims without legal counsel since insurance companies often believe riders are at least partially responsible for the crash. In most cases, it is a convenient excuse to deny the victim compensation. According to I.C. § 34-51-2-6(a), you will be barred from recovering any damages if your contributory fault exceeds the other driver’s.
However, being somewhat at fault will not prevent you from recovering compensation, but your award will be less than your total damages, as per § 34-51-2-7(b)(3). After determining the total amount of a victim’s damages as if their fault were disregarded, the defendant’s percentage of fault will be multiplied by that amount, leaving them with the final award, according to § 34-51-2-7(b)(4).
An example should help illustrate. Let us say you were found to be 20% contributorily negligent, while the other driver was found to be 80% at fault. Next, your total damages, irrespective of your negligence, were found to be $50,000. The $50,000 would then be multiplied by 0.80 (80%), leaving you with a final amount of $40,000. Our team can gather evidence, like photos and eyewitness testimony, to show that the negligent driver was solely responsible for your injuries.
Property owners and businesses can be held liable if their negligence causes an accident on their premises. These cases typically involve slip and fall accidents, like those caused by uncleaned spills in grocery stores and restaurants. However, falls often happen in places like apartment buildings and other commercial properties because they have poor lighting or lack handrails on their stairs. Our team can help show that an unreasonable amount of time passed before inspecting for the dangerous condition that injured you or whether warning signs should have been up in the first place.
Medical malpractice is among the most complex claims in personal injury law. The healthcare provider’s negligence can be hard to determine, and many parties could have violated their duty of care to bring about your injuries.
For instance, perhaps a surgeon left an object inside their patient, and other surgeons negligently miscounted their instruments after the surgery. During the victim’s post-operation recovery in the hospital, the nurses monitoring them failed to notice signs that would have led to the error’s discovery. In this situation, we would argue that each healthcare provider whose negligence contributed to the victim’s damages be held liable for their part. We will use evidence like other medical expert’s testimony to explain how your providers deviated from the standard of care others of similar experience and training would have provided.
For a free review of your case with our personal injury lawyers, call 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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