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Accidents can happen at any time and nearly any place in Merrillville. When you are the victim in one, you should contact our attorneys as soon as possible to file your claim against those who injured you.
Our team has extensive experience helping victims with many types of personal injury claims. When you work with our lawyers, we will discuss the best legal strategies for your claim and determine how much time you have to file it. Our team will know what evidence is important to prove the type of claim you have. Proving negligence in a car accident case differs greatly from proving it in a nursing home abuse case. Fortunately, we can help no matter the type of accident in which you were injured.
For a free review of your case today with our personal injury lawyers, call Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
Personal injuries are caused in countless ways. From car accidents and medical malpractice to nursing home abuse, tragedy can strike from almost any area in life. That is why our personal injury attorneys have been helping victims recover the compensation they are entitled to for decades, recovering millions of dollars in damages in the process. Unlike other firms, we take the time to get to know our clients and the accident that brought them to us. We stand ready to bring our skills and experience to your unique circumstances. The following are some of the claims we routinely help victims file in Merrillville:
Claims for car accidents are probably the most common our team handles. Car accidents typically only happen because someone acts negligently. Speeding drivers are responsible for many of the claims we file. Many others are filed because drivers are distracted by their phones, texting or answering phone calls. Whatever the cause of your crash, we can gather the evidence to prove it.
Whether a single driver caused your injuries or multiple drivers were involved, we are skilled at untangling the web of liability. We can also determine whether your car manufacturer should be sued if a defect contributed to your crash.
The cause of an increasing number of claims in Merrillville is accidents involving Uber and Lyft rideshare drivers. These cases tend to be much more complex than an average car accident claim because who should pay compensation can be confusing.
In most cases, the companies of Uber and Lyft cannot be held directly responsible in a claim, even if their driver caused the accident. Rideshare drivers are “independent contractors,” meaning they work in a type of partnership with Uber and Lyft, but the companies do not exercise direct control over them.
Fortunately, we can help you explore the insurance options typically available in these cases. If you were the passenger in an Uber or Lyft, coverage of up to $1,000,000 might be available. Perhaps you were the other driver hit by a rideshare driver. You could still file for Uber or Lyft’s coverage, but the amount of coverage would depend on the status of the rideshare driver at the time of the accident. If they were off duty, we could file a personal claim against the driver.
Located not too far from Chicago and the Illinois border and connecting it to other parts of Indiana and the Midwest via I-65, Merrillville sees countless commercial trucks pass through it each day. While some truck accidents are caused by the same negligence as car accidents, like distracted driving and speeding, many others are caused by truckers being compelled to drive longer than regulations allow. We can obtain driver logs and trucking company records to determine if hours of operation regulations were violated or if routine maintenance was never conducted.
You will often have multiple parties to pursue compensation from in these cases, as well. Per the rule of respondeat superior, most trucking companies can be held responsible for the negligent acts of their employees if they caused the accident while completing their job duties. This will allow you more paths towards the compensation you deserve.
In some cases, we might sue the trucking company for their own negligence. Trucking companies have their own duties to hire competent, safe drivers and maintain the trucks in their fleet in good working order. If they circumvent these duties to save costs, they can be held liable.
Our team can also help riders recover compensation if they are injured on their motorcycle. Motorcycle accident victims face an uphill challenge as insurance companies and defense attorneys often paint motorcyclists as inherently reckless or somehow less deserving of compensation. If these claims are not fought, it could cost you the money you need for your recovery.
Comparative negligence rules are used to determine fault in an injury claim. According to
I.C. § 34-51-2-5, your compensation will be reduced if any of your actions contributed to the crash, proportional to the percentage of fault you share. If your share of the fault in the accident is more than 50%, you will be barred from recovering any compensation at all. Thus, you will want skilled representation to fight claims you partially caused your accident and ensure the case is decided on the facts and not unfair biases.
Some of the most difficult cases involve the most vulnerable people in Merrillville Nursing Homes. We expect our loved ones to be cared for and watched over when living in a nursing home. If a nursing home fails to provide a safe environment or intentionally takes advantage of its residents, we can help you get justice. Suppose a nursing home employee exploited a resident, such as stealing from them or physically abusing them. In that case, we can help the victim and family file a claim against the employee and nursing home.
Every type of legal claim has a deadline for filing, known as the “statute of limitations.” Victims have just two years to file their claims for personal injuries in Merrillville, as per § 34-11-2-4(a)(1). This means there is little time to gather evidence and prepare your claim. If the case is filed after the statute of limitations has passed, the case will be dismissed, and the victim will not be compensated in any way. Exceptions to the general do exist, but they are rare, and you should not assume you have more time without reviewing your case with our team.
Contact Wruck Paupore by calling (219) 322-1166 for a free case assessment with our personal injury attorneys.
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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