A Shelbyville construction accident lawyer can help you navigate life after a dangerous construction accident. Instead of taking on the pain of new medical bills and property restoration alone, you can turn to our team in your effort to take a liable party to civil court. In doing so, you can fight to secure the settlement you need to get your life back on track again.
Vaughan & Vaughan offers you a significant degree of control over the way your case progresses. If you’d rather not go to court, we can arrange private negotiations with a liable party. If you want to place your right to compensation in the hands of a jury, we can prepare you for trial.
You can contact our personal injury lawyers in Shelbyville today to book a FREE, no-commitment construction accident case evaluation.
How to Financially Recover from a Construction Accident
There are a few different tools available to you in your effort to financially recover from a construction accident. It’s up to you which of these tools you use, what combination you use them in, and whether or not you reach out to someone for help using them.
Shelbyville construction accident lawyers can help you use both tools to your advantage in a combination that suits your interests the best.
File an Insurance Claim With a Company’s Provider
Most construction companies, be they agencies or established corporations, offer their team members insurance when out on a worksite. You, as a construction accident survivor, can take advantage of that insurance in the wake of a dangerous accident.
Be wary, though, about the way an insurance claims adjuster may attempt to approach your accident losses. Insurance claims adjusters want what’s best for their employers, not you. This means that an adjuster may attempt to minimize your losses and pay you an insufficient settlement.
You can challenge that bad-faith behavior on your own, but you can also bring a construction accident lawyer into play. Our team can argue against an adjuster’s attempts to offer you insufficient settlements and even, in some cases, sue insurance providers who continue to operate in bad faith.
File a Personal Injury Claim Against a Liable Party
Indiana affords any Hoosiers injured in a construction accident the right to hold a liable party responsible for their financial losses in civil court. This process requires a survivor like you to fill out a personal injury form detailing:
- The nature of the accident in question
- What evidence of negligence you have on hand
- The severity of your losses and those losses’ economic value
You must submit your construction accident claim before your statute of limitations expires if you want the chance to bring the claim before a civil judge. If you miss your filing deadline, you may lose the right to request construction accident compensation in civil court.
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How to Create a Construction Accident Claim
If you decide that you want to bring a construction accident claim forward in civil court, you can:
Weigh Evidence and Contracts When Questioning Liability
You need to bring forward evidence of someone else’s negligence if you want to hold construction crews or related parties liable for your financial strain following an accident. The evidence you bring forward can vary depending on availability but can include statements from bystanders, photos of the accident scene, and input from expert witnesses.
You do, however, need to account for the role contracts may play in your quest to assign liability for your losses. Even if evidence indicates that an individual bears responsibility for your losses, you may have the opportunity to hold a corporation responsible for your accident. Companies assume liability for their employees under certain circumstances.
That said, if the party responsible for your accident appears to be an independent contractor, you only have the right to hold that individual responsible for your losses. You can work with our team to determine what contract the liable party works on, if applicable, and how that might impact your case.
Let an Attorney Estimate the Value of Your Economic and Non-Economic Losses
Once you know who you can hold liable for your losses, you can request that a Shelbyville construction accident attorney help you calculate the value of your economic and non-economic instruction accident losses. Depending on the nature of your accident, you may have the right to include any of the following in your claim:
- Medical expenses
- Long-term pain management and rehabilitation
- Lost opportunities to go to work
- Lost or reduced wages
- Emotional distress
- Pain and suffering
- Mental anguish
- Property damage and restoration
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Turn Your Claim in On Time
Indiana Code section 34-11-2-4 gives you no more than two years to investigate the negligence that led to your construction accident. You must submit your claim within that two-year period if you want the chance to request fair compensation for your losses.
Indiana’s civil judges do not allow you to file a claim outside of your statute of limitations unless you qualify for specific exceptions. With that in mind, don’t hesitate to get in touch with an experienced Shelbyville construction accident attorney if you feel like you’re running short on filing time.
Shelbyville Construction Accident Lawyers Want to Represent You
Vaughan & Vaughan wants to help personal injury survivors like you demand fair compensation for your losses. Don’t let your opportunity to go to court pass you by. Reach out to our Shelbyville construction accident lawyers today to learn more about the benefits of taking a liable party to civil court.
Our team makes the civil process as straightforward as possible without introducing new stresses into your life. What’s more, we work on contingency – meaning that we won’t exacerbate the financial stress you’re already contending with. Contact us today to book a FREE case evaluation so you can get to know our team.
