Bad personal injuries are not just financially distressing for victims. The physical pain, mental suffering, and emotional distress they cause are also compensable with our lawyers’ help. Do not underestimate your deserved damages, and let us calculate your losses due to a personal injury.
Call us to start tracking your damages right away, whether they come from medical bills, lost wages, or other out-of-pocket expenses. Bills and other documentation prove your damages, while witness statements, photographs, and your testimony proves the defendant’s liability. In addition to filing a timely lawsuit, we will also oversee settlement negotiations, potentially resolving your case without a trial.
Get a free case assessment by calling the personal injury lawyers of the Rhatigan Law Offices today at (312) 578-8502.
What Are Expensive Personal Injuries in Danville?
Any injury can be very expensive, whether because of the medical treatment it requires or the lost wages it causes.
Head and Brain Injuries
Any head or brain injury is costly. Skull fractures, brain bleeds, traumatic brain injuries, brain swelling, and other damage require urgent medical attention. Get evaluated for a brain injury if you hit your head at all during a fall, collision, or other accident.
Referrals to neurologists for surgery or additional evaluation are common when victims suffer brain injuries, and they are also expensive. Attend all appointments and follow your treatment plan. Some victims never fully recover from traumatic brain injuries and experience long-term lost wages and other ongoing damages.
Facial injuries are also costly, especially if they require multiple reconstructive surgeries.
Broken Bones
Broken bones are expensive to treat, and they are also some of the most common injuries victims suffer because of negligence. You might sustain a fracture in a slip and fall, a car accident, a construction accident, or another event.
Displaced and compound fractures may require surgery. Pins or plates are inserted to realign bones and ensure they heal together, which can be a costly and painful process. You may need physical therapy as broken bones heal, which your lawsuit should also cover.
Neck and Spine Injuries
With any neck or spinal cord injury, there comes many economic and non-economic damages. Diagnosing and addressing back injuries are expensive, and victims may be in severe pain during this time.
On top of surgery, physical therapy, prescription pain medications, and other treatments, you might incur additional damages due to partial or total paralysis, like mobility aids and other accommodations.
What Evidence Can My Danville Personal Injury Lawyer Collect?
We can collect the evidence you need to prove a personal injury case and get compensation for your many losses.
Witness Statements
Some of the first evidence our personal injury lawyers may get is witness statements. Tell us if anyone else was present during the accident and if you have their contact details. Interviewing witnesses may lead to statements that corroborate your account of events. Witnesses often testify in injury lawsuits that go to trial, making it a top priority to interview them.
Medical Records
We can also handle obtaining all necessary medical records for a lawsuit. When you visit the hospital, attend follow-up appointments, and adhere to your treatment plan, you make medical records that we can request from providers on your behalf.
Medical records confirm you sustained the injuries mentioned in your lawsuit, even if you have since made a full physical recovery or an injury is no longer visible.
Proof of Damages
Our attorneys will also collect proof of damages, a burdensome task that can be overwhelming for victims to handle alone. Give us copies of hospital bills, and tell us what your previous income was if you cannot resume working.
Obtaining proof of non-economic damages is a different process. In addition to preparing you to testify about your pain and suffering, we may also encourage you to record daily struggles in a journal. By doing this, you can document the mental anguish, chronic pain, and other intangible damages you experienced because of negligence.
How Quickly Should I File My Personal Injury Lawsuit?
You should not rush to file a personal injury lawsuit and sue before you fully appreciate your damages. However, you should also not wait too long, as evidence might be lost, or you might miss the statute of limitations.
We can strike the right balance of when to file your lawsuit when you contact our lawyers about your case. Allow us to consider all damages, including those you may not have realized, like the cost of childcare services you had to hire because of an injury.
The deadline to file your personal injury lawsuit may fall two years from the date of injury. Though there are some exceptions to this rule, you should not assume any applies to your case without confirming with our attorneys. Otherwise, you might file too late, in which case your lawsuit might get dismissed.
What Can I Expect from Personal Injury Settlement Talks in Danville?
Many cases end in settlements without plaintiffs ever having to go to court. We will prepare you for what settlement talks entail and outline our strategy for securing the maximum compensation on your behalf.
Expect that the defendant’s first few offers will be low. Sending bad offers initially is a common tactic, but it does not mean that offers will not improve.
Also, expect our lawyers to respond to a bad offer with a counteroffer. When we respond, we will explain why you deserve more compensation, whether based on the defendant’s egregious misconduct or because of the severity of your injury.
You can expect settlement negotiations to take time, but you can be assured that our lawyers will represent your interests throughout them. We will alert you to any offers worth accepting and stop you from signing bad agreements.
Call Us in Danville to Discuss Your Injury Case
Get a free case review when you the personal injury lawyers of the Rhatigan Law Offices at (312) 578-8502 now.
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