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 client we’ll call Carol.*
Carol’s crash took one careless decision: another driver failed to yield. What it took from Carol unfolded over months.
The collision fractured her pelvis and her knee. The treatment that followed was extensive, orthopedic care and long stretches of physical therapy, the slow and painful work of learning to move again. Then her recovery was complicated by something the accident report would never show: she developed post-traumatic pneumonia, adding a pulmonary battle on top of the orthopedic one.
That detail matters, because insurance companies like to draw a tight circle around a crash and pay only for what sits inside it. The law draws the circle wider. Complications that grow out of crash injuries and their treatment are part of the harm, and we made sure Carol’s pneumonia was valued as exactly what it was: one more consequence of a driver’s failure to yield.
Even after reaching the end of treatment, Carol was not who she had been. She was left with lasting knee pain and real limits on her mobility. The combination of orthopedic and pulmonary complications significantly reduced her quality of life, and quality of life is not a footnote in a damages claim. For a case like Carol’s, it is the claim.
Her case settled for $350,000.
If your recovery came with complications, do not let an adjuster carve them out of your claim. The harm a crash causes rarely stops at the first diagnosis.
*Our client’s name has been changed to protect her privacy.
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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) 533-2744 or reach us online.
Past results do not guarantee any future outcome, and every case is different.
