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If you were hurt in an accident or by someone’s intentional actions, a personal injury lawsuit might help you get compensation for your damages. An experienced personal injury lawyer can help you get your case off the ground and into the courtroom.
Personal injury law is a broad legal field that involves a wide variety of accidents and injuries. One of the most important steps in a personal injury case is determining damages. Damages represent the value of all your losses and injuries, and it is crucial that we document all your damages and include them in your case. Determining liability will vary from case to case. In some cases, only one defendant is liable. In others, multiple people, organizations, or businesses might share liability. Proving liability requires evidence. A skilled lawyer can sometimes build a strong case even when it first appears there minimal evidence available.
If you were hurt because of someone else’s negligent or intentional actions, our personal injury lawyers can help you fight for justice and fair compensation. Call us at Wruck Paupore for a free case evaluation at (219) 322-1166.
You may file a personal injury lawsuit if you experienced bodily harm or injuries because of someone else’s behavior. This is a general area of law that encompasses many different injuries. Certain kinds of injuries might be so common that specific laws regarding these cases have been carved out. For example, car accident cases are so prevalent that most states have codified insurance, damages, and some liability laws about car crashes.
Many personal injury cases stem from negligence. Negligence often involves unintentional conduct by the defendant that causes the plaintiff’s accident and injuries due to carelessness or unreasonable behavior. Even though the defendant did not mean to cause harm, they should still be held accountable, and our personal injury attorneys can help.
Other personal injury cases arise from intentional acts of violence against the plaintiff. Assault, battery, or purposefully triggering accidents are grounds for personal injury lawsuits. In many of these cases, defendants will also face criminal prosecution.
Damages are at the heart of a personal injury lawsuit. Your damages are assessments of the value of all your losses and injuries. Many damages are connected to real sums of money you spent or lost because of an accident or your injuries. Medical bills are a significant source of expensive damages, especially for people who do not have health insurance. Other damages may include the value of any damaged property and any income you lost because you could not return to work after being injured.
Not all damages are tied to actual monetary loss. Much of the damage suffered by an injury victim relate to the loss in your quality of life due the accident. These losses, called non-economic damages, include pain and suffering, humiliation, disfigurement, land loss of enjoyment of life. These losses or injuries do not cost plaintiffs in the form of “money,” but can be tragic consequences negligence and are typically compensated for with money damages from the at-fault defendant.
Depending on the state, punitive damages might also be available. These damages are not designed to make up for the plaintiff’s losses, although they are paid to the plaintiff if awarded. Instead, punitive damages are meant to punish the defendant for their bad behavior. Punitive damages are usually awarded in very limited circumstances where the defendant’s actions are above and beyond ordinary negligence. Some states might limit punitive damages only to certain kinds of cases. Our personal injury lawyers can help you determine if punitive damages are available in your case.
When a person is deemed responsible for causing your accident and injuries, they are held liable. Liability is complicated to prove and requires effective legal strategies and strong evidence. One or more defendants may be held liable for your injuries. In some cases, plaintiffs are also determined to be partially liable for their own accident, and their damages may be reduced or even barred completely.
Proving liability often means proving that the defendant was negligent when they caused your accident. Negligence involves four important legal elements. First, you must prove the defendant owed you a duty of care or legal obligation. Second, you must establish that the defendant breached or violated their duty. Third, the breach must be the direct cause of your injuries. Finally, your damages must be real and not just hypothetical.
Evidence may include almost anything and everything that may shed light on how your injuries occurred. A lot of evidence might come directly from the accident scene. For example, if you were hurt in a construction accident, much of our evidence will come from the construction site. You can also create your own evidence by taking pictures and recording videos of your injuries and surroundings immediately after you are injured.
Evidence is not always something you can hold up for a jury. Witnesses who saw your accident unfold can testify about what they saw. Even if we cannot find any eyewitnesses, there might be people who know something about your case who can provide invaluable testimony in court. The more witnesses our personal injury attorneys can question, the better.
Although plaintiffs are not legally required to hire an attorney to represent them in a personal injury lawsuit, it should be your first step. Personal injury lawsuits can be very legally, factually, and procedurally complex. Balancing the facts and the law while making sure all court rules and procedures are followed is no easy task. Our personal injury lawyers have years of experience handling these kinds of cases and are prepared to help you in any way possible.
If you or someone you care about was hurt in an accident caused by someone else’s negligent or intentional behavior, our personal injury lawyers can help you get compensation for your injuries. For a free review of your case, 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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