You deserve financial support following a negligence-based spinal cord injury accident. Lawyers in Beech Grove can help you secure that support by taking your concerns, packaging them as a personal injury claim, and presenting that claim to Indiana civil judges. Vaughan & Vaughan has decades of combined experience helping survivors like you fund their recoveries.
You can meet with our team free of charge ahead of the civil process to discuss what you should expect from Indiana’s judges. We can prepare you for the investigative process and keep doors open so that you can negotiate for the settlement you deserve or take your case to trial.
Don’t wait. Get in touch with Beech Grove personal injury attorneys today to book a free case evaluation.
You Can Hold Other Parties Responsible for Spinal Cord Injury
Other people in the world with you owe you a duty of care when you step out your front door. This means that those parties must take reasonable action to protect you from preventable and predictable harm. Parties who violate your duty of care through deliberate recklessness or accidental negligence bear the responsibility for your recovery.
That said, you have to take certain steps to ensure that these parties are held accountable for their misconduct. These parties may reach out to you and offer you support, but only the Indiana civil system can ensure that these parties fully compensate you for the wrongs done to you.
In other words, you can take steps to initiate a personal injury claim against negligent parties following a spinal cord injury accident. Doing so can help you win the compensation you need to pay for the bills that come with spinal cord injuries.
Personal Injury Lawyers Can Help Assign Liability for Your Losses
You don’t have to hold negligent parties accountable for their misconduct on your own. Beech Grove spinal cord injury attorneys specialize in helping survivors like you bring forward the evidence needed to initiate the civil process against offending parties.
You can reach out to a personal injury lawyer at any point in your working timeline to discuss what right you have to either negotiate for a fair settlement or take a liable party to civil court. Our team can meet with you free of charge to discuss our services, our opinions of your case, and recommendations for your best path forward.
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How to Take a Spinal Cord Injury Case to Civil Court
If you want to take a spinal cord injury case and a related liable party to civil court, you have an obligation to take the following steps:
Evidence Assigns Accident Liability
You cannot randomly assign liability for your spinal cord injury losses. You must have evidence of someone else’s negligence if you want to move a case forward. This evidence can take on several forms and work in combination to prove that someone else engaged in avoidable negligence ahead of your accident.
Our team can return to an accident scene on your behalf to gather physical debris, video footage, photos of the scene, and statements from bystanders. We can even call on our professional network to add expert testimony to the structure of your case.
You Determine the Value of Your Case
You have an obligation to know what compensation you are asking for before you move a personal injury case forward following a spinal cord injury. Indiana affords you the right to demand support for economic and non-economic losses.
Your spinal cord injury economic losses are the most easy to calculate, as they produce invoices and bills. You can demand that a liable party pay for your medical expenses and property restoration while supplementing any wages you’ve lost throughout your recovery.
You equally have the right to request that a liable party pay for your emotional distress, mental anguish, stress, and pain and suffering. A spinal cord injury lawyer in Beech Grove can calculate the value of these non-economic damages on your behalf.
Stay Ahead of Relevant Filing Deadlines
When you’re recovering from a spinal cord injury, you are operating within Indiana’s personal injury statute of limitations. The state outlines the statute of limitations in Indiana Code section 34-11-2-4.
According to the statute, you, as a survivor, only have two years to bring forward the evidence you need to meet Indiana’s burden of proof if you want to move a personal injury claim forward.
Fortunately, Beech Grove spinal cord injury attorneys can gather that evidence on your behalf. You, in turn, can prioritize meeting with Specialists to address the temporary or permanent disabilities that came along with your spinal cord injury.
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Filing a Civil Claim doesn’t Commit You to a Trial
Many survivors find themselves reluctant to initiate the civil process against an offending party because they are concerned that they may have to go before a judge. This is not the case. Filing a personal injury claim against the party liable for your spinal cord injury accident gives you the right to go to trial. It does not obligate you to participate in the trial process.
You can, for example, arrange out-of-court negotiations with the party responsible for your accident. Your attorney can meet with theirs to discuss your right to compensation and what evidence you have of a liable party’s negligence. After several conversations, you can come to an agreement about the settlement you deserve and walk away with the support you deserve.
You can discuss opportunities for out-of-court financial arrangements with your attorney during an initial case evaluation.
Learn More About Your Right to Legal Action Today
Our spinal cord injury attorneys in Beech Grove understand that the civil process can look intimidating from the outside. It takes years of study to create and file comprehensive personal injury claims. That doesn’t mean that the court system has to prove labyrinthian to a survivor like you.
You can reach out to our team by phone or through our website to book a free case evaluation today. You can use this evaluation to learn more about our services and discuss the value of your spinal cord injury case.
