Civil law seems nebulous when you’re on the outside looking in. In reality, Indiana’s civil laws are designed to help people like you take action in the wake of someone else’s negligence. The personal injury lawyers in Hammond are here to help you demystify the legal process and get back on your feet.
Vaughan & Vaughan lends over 100 years of experience to your pursuit of compensation through legal avenues after a serious accident. You can count on our team to explain your right to recover well before you have to take legal action. Once you’re sure on your feet, you can expect our tried-and-true representation in or out of court.
Contact us now to learn more.
What Is a Personal Injury Claim?
A personal injury claim is a legal document that allows the filer to demand compensation for losses sustained in a serious accident. Parties interested in filing a personal injury claim can do so only when they have enough evidence of fault to meet or exceed Indiana’s burden of proof.
What does this mean for you? If you want to demand fair compensation for the losses you sustained in an accident, you must gather evidence proving that those losses stemmed from someone else’s negligence. This gets easier to do when you have an experienced attorney on your side.
Fortunately, Vaughan & Vaughan can connect you with Hammond’s:
- Car accident lawyers
- Truck accident lawyers
- Motorcycle accident lawyers
- Traumatic brain injury lawyers
- Catastrophic injury lawyers
- Slip and fall lawyers
- Construction accident lawyers
A lawyer’s support will make it easier for you to not only meet the state’s burden of proof but also to accurately represent the economic value of your losses. In other words, we make it easier for you to get the financial support you deserve.
Your Case Will Get
The Attention It Deserves
How Do You File a Personal Injury Claim?
If you decide that you want to bring a personal injury claim against someone, you need to:
- Determine whether or not that party owed you a duty of care
- Break down the ways in which a liable party violated the duty they owed you
- Detail what losses you sustained due to that negligence
- Assign a dollar value to your relevant losses
You have an obligation to finalize all of this within Indiana’s personal injury statute of limitations. That statute gives you no more than two years to gather the evidence needed to make these points.
A personal injury attorney in Hammond can help you make the most out of your filing timeline, particularly if you’re injured. We can take over an investigation into your recent accident to identify the party responsible for your losses. We do this by gathering data related to your case, including bystander testimonies, debris, and accident footage.
Once we have enough data to meet the state’s burden of proof, we can submit your finalized claim for a court’s consideration. Should a court move your claim forward, we can help you demand maximized accident compensation from the party liable for your losses.
There is no fee
unless you win
What’s the Average Personal Injury Claim Settlement?
Our personal injury attorneys in Hammond don’t refer to an “average” personal injury claim settlement when calculating the value of your case. We base the value of your case on the specific losses you sustained in a serious accident. This means that we independently calculate the value of each of our clients’ cases.
When determining the value of your personal injury claim, our team will account for your:
- Emotional distress
- Pain and suffering
- Reduced quality of life
- Property damage
- Restoration and rental fees
- Lost wages
- Medical expenses
Is It Better to File a Personal Injury Claim or an Insurance Claim?
Both insurance claims and personal injury claims can help you financially recover from a serious accident. If you get into an accident where someone’s insurance policy should address your losses, we encourage you to file an insurance claim. However, you should be careful when working with insurance claims adjusters.
Insurance claims adjusters want to minimize your right to recover. Why? Because doing so saves their corporations money. As such, insurance claims adjusters can act in bad faith by:
- Ghosting you
- Refusing to acknowledge evidence key to your case
- Demanding recorded statements to later use against you
- Denying your claim without consideration
What’s more, insurance claims only allow you to recover damages based on your economic losses. Comparatively, a personal injury claim puts you in the driver’s seat of your case while allowing you to recover damages based on your economic and non-economic losses.
When Should You Contact a Hammond Personal Injury Lawyer?
We recommend that you contact a personal injury lawyer sooner rather than later. The deadline for when Indiana’s statute of limitations applies to your case is firm. It’s incredibly difficult to file a personal injury claim once your statute of limitations expires. With our help, you can get your finalized claim to the right parties well before your deadline approaches.
Moreover, we can prevent bad actors from limiting your right to recover. Our involvement in your case can minimize insurance companies’ bad faith tactics or attempts to deny your claim. We can also preserve your right to access evidence that certain agencies, corporations, or similar entities would prefer you didn’t see.
Meeting with our team does not lock you into a particular course of legal action. If you want to learn more about your right to recover after a personal injury accident, you can schedule a no-obligation consultation with our team. Your first appointment comes free of charge.
Book Your Free Case Evaluation Before Time Runs Out
Indiana’s personal injury structures exist so survivors like you can safely recover from serious accidents. We want you to have access to all of the resources you need to get back on your feet – including our services. That’s why we offer Hoosiers FREE case evaluations and work on contingency.
You can book your consultation with our staff members today without committing to long-term legal action. Don’t let your statute of limitations pass you by. Hammond, IN, personal injury lawyers are ready to fight for you.
