Spinal cord injuries can temporarily or permanently transform your ability to meet your everyday needs. Knowing that your injuries stemmed from someone else’s avoidable negligence can feel like a slap in the face. Is it possible, though, to hold a negligent party accountable for the ways that your life changes after a spinal cord injury?
With help from Westfield spinal cord injury lawyers, the answer is yes. Vaughan & Vaughan can help you make the most out of Indiana’s civil system by advocating for your right to personal injury compensation after an accident. You can contact Westfield personal injury lawyers within hours of your accident to secure tried-and-tested representation.
You Can Suffer a Spinal Cord Injury After Several Kinds of Accidents
There’s no single kind of accident that results in a spinal cord injury. The umbrella of personal injury cases covers several unique circumstances wherein you may endure a spinal cord injury as a consequence of someone else’s negligence. Some of the most common accidents that result in these injuries can include the following:
- Car accidents
- Slip and fall accidents
- Truck accidents
- Construction accidents
- Medical malpractice
You can count on an experienced spinal cord injury attorney in Westfield to help you classify the nature of your spinal cord injury accident when we first assess your case. Doing so helps us establish the framework we can use to better present your case to a judge.
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When to Take Action After a Spinal Cord Injury
If you want to take legal action against the party responsible for your spinal cord injury, among your other losses, you need to do so within the deadline set by Indiana Code section 34-11-2-4. This statute operates as Indiana’s personal injury statute of limitations. It works to keep all cases that come before Hoosier civil judges as factually relevant as possible.
The statute of limitations gives you no more than two years to meet Indiana’s personal injury burden of proof. You must have the evidence you need compiled into a complaint and submitted to a judge by the second anniversary of your accident. If you don’t, Indiana courts may deny you the right to fight for compensation in civil court.
Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers Go to Work for You
Westfield spinal cord injury lawyers can also serve as go-betweens between you and the court while you’re recovering from your injuries. While there are some meetings and court dates that you must attend, our team can manage an investigation into your losses, compile your claim, and oversee initial conversations with the liable party’s defense.
You can learn more about opportunities for alternative representation during a free case evaluation with Vaughan & Vaughan.
Is It Worth It to File an Insurance Claim After a Spinal Cord Injury?
The party responsible for your spinal cord injury may have insurance designed to protect them from the financial consequences of these accidents. If this is the case, you may have the opportunity to demand compensation for your losses from an insurance provider.
It’s worth it to file an insurance claim, but you have to be careful when interfacing with an insurance claims adjuster. These parties want to protect their finances, not your future. When in doubt, you can have an attorney on hand throughout conversations with a claims adjuster to minimize an adjuster’s bad faith behavior.
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What to Expect from the Civil Process
The civil process primarily works to give you control over your recovery. As you bring together a civil claim, you get to decide how your pursuit of compensation progresses. You do not have to go to court to win fair support after a spinal cord injury accident.
That said, you must meet Indiana’s burden of proof before you request settlement negotiations or initiate a trial. To meet that burden, our team can help you:
Investigate Spinal Cord Injury Liability
Our team needs evidence to claim that someone else bears the legal responsibility for your spinal cord injury and related losses. Fortunately, we have decades of combined experience combing accident scenes for the data we need to prove liability. This data can include the following:
- Video footage of your accident
- Statements from first responders
- Medical records
- A police report speculating on fault
- Bystander accounts of your accident
- Photos from before and after your accident
- A truck’s black box, if applicable
Complete a Comprehensive Assessment of Your Right to Damages
Personal injury claims, including spinal cord injury claims, allow you to fight for a comprehensive settlement based on your accident’s losses. Before you can demand that compensation, though, you need to know the total value of your losses. Our team can help you find the sum of economic and non-economic losses like the following:
- Emergency care
- Long-term medical treatment
- Temporary or permanent disability
- Inability to return to work or lost wages
- Emotional distress
- Stress
- Pain and suffering
- Wrongful death and funeral expenses, if applicable
Let a Westfield, IN, spinal cord injury lawyer determine which of these losses you can include in your claim today.
Westfield Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers Can Help You Get Back on Your Feet
Are you ready to hold a negligent party accountable for your spinal cord injury accident and all of its related bills? Let the experienced spinal cord injury attorneys in Westfield, IN, help build your claim. We can bring our decades of combined legal experience to your pursuit of fair compensation for the losses you wrongfully endured.
Vaughan & Vaughan can submit your claim to a civil judge long before your statute of limitations expires. Once we do, we can advocate for your right to the financial support you deserve in or out of court. Don’t wait – get in touch with our team today to book your FREE spinal cord injury case evaluation. Let a practiced personal injury lawyer stand up for you.
