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 Marcus.*
Marcus was a passenger, with no control over anything that happened. The car he was riding in was cut off by a semi-truck that failed to yield, and in an instant his life changed.
The crash fractured his right arm and elbow. Repairing the damage took surgery and permanent hardware, plates and screws that will be part of his body for the rest of his life. He was also left with lasting injuries to his low back and hip.
Hardware cases deserve more respect than insurers give them. An adjuster sees a healed fracture and calls the case resolved. The person living with it feels the plates and screws every time the weather turns, every time the joint stiffens, every time they are reminded that their arm will never again be the arm they were born with. Permanence is the point, and permanence is what we made the insurance company account for.
Trucking cases also come with a defense apparatus that ordinary car crash cases do not. Commercial carriers and their insurers move fast to control the story. Our job was to move faster: establish that the truck driver failed to yield, document every dimension of what Marcus lost, and refuse to let a passenger with zero fault absorb the cost of a professional driver’s carelessness.
The case resolved for $600,000.
If you were hurt as a passenger, remember this: you are the one person in the crash with no possible share of the blame. Do not let anyone treat your claim like an afterthought.
*Our client’s name has been changed to protect his 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) 464-3246 or reach us online.
Past results do not guarantee any future outcome, and every case is different.
