Since 1980, Langer & Langer has fought for injured people across Northwest Indiana. We measure our work by one standard: what we actually recover for the clients who trust us. This result belongs to a 70-year-old client who was doing the safest thing a pedestrian can do: using the crosswalk.
A driver reversed into that crosswalk without looking. Our client never had a chance to get out of the way.
The impact fractured our client’s hip and pelvis. What followed was the kind of medical journey that consumes a season of a person’s life: emergency surgery, six days in acute care, then 29 days in a rehabilitation facility, and months of physical therapy after that. The hip fracture was severe enough to require a partial hip replacement.
Numbers like six days and 29 days matter, because they translate an injury into something an insurance adjuster cannot minimize. A 70-year-old does not spend 35 consecutive days in hospitals and rehab facilities for a minor injury. Every day of that stay was documentation of what one careless moment behind the wheel actually cost.
Hip and pelvis fractures are also uniquely serious for older adults. Mobility is independence, and a replaced hip at 70 changes how a person moves through every room of their own life. We built the claim around that reality and pressed it until the insurer paid the full available policy limits: $250,000. Not a negotiated fraction. All of it.
Drivers owe pedestrians the simplest duty in traffic law: look before you move your car. When they fail, we make sure the consequences land where they belong.
Injured in Northwest Indiana? Talk to Us First.
Talk to us before you talk to the insurance company. The consultation is free, and you pay nothing unless we win. Call Langer & Langer at (219) 464-3246 or reach us online.
Past results do not guarantee any future outcome, and every case is different.
