If you have been involved in an auto accident or sustained a personal injury in New Albany, Indiana, contact us for a free and confidential consultation. You will be connected directly to one of our experienced attorneys immediately.
If you can throw a stone across the Ohio River, you can hit Louisville from New Albany, IN. New Albany is actually considered part of the Louisville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Some people call the area “Kentuckyiana.” The city has an estimated population of nearly 37,000, and it’s the county seat of Floyd County. The city has been established for so long, that it has the first public high school that was ever opened in the State of Indiana. Along with smaller state highways like Indiana 111 and 150, New Albany is just a few minutes from Interstate Highways 64 and 265, and those roadways will take you anywhere in the continental United States that you want to travel to.
Causes of New Albany Accident Injuries
Although most personal injury claims and lawsuits spin off of motor vehicle accidents, we’ve also been highly successful in representing injured clients in slip-and-falls, trip-and-falls, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, falling merchandise accidents from places like Walmart and even dog attacks. We represent clients in both Indiana and Kentucky, so if you or a family member was injured anywhere in “Kentuckiana” we can be of great help to you.
Motor Vehicle Crashes
Most motor vehicle crashes that result in personal injury in or around New Albany often take place on arterial roads such as Charlestown Road, Vincennes Street, State Street or on highways such as 64 or 265. They also occur for a few common reasons. The majority of those involve:
- Driving when distracting and texting, talking on a phone or using an infotainment unit
- Following too closely and failing to maintain a proper interval between vehicles
- Fatigued or drowsy driving when reaction times are significantly slower
- Driving too fast for weather or traffic conditions on the roadway
- Driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any combination of the two
We’ll Meet With You Anywhere in Floyd County or Jefferson County
After you’ve been in an accident involving a careless and negligent driver anywhere in or around New Albany or Louisville, an attorney who knows his or her way around both the Floyd County or Jefferson County court systems. We’re licensed in both Indiana and Kentucky. We’re pleased to meet with you for a free consultation and case review at our offices, your home, hospital room or elsewhere to discuss your accident and injuries.
Don’t Let Them Devalue Your Claim
It doesn’t matter if your accident and injuries arose in Indiana, Kentucky or anywhere else. The company that insures the person who caused your accident only wants to pay out as little as possible on your injury claim. It’s going to try to use every legal tactic to try to devalue your claim. That’s how insurance companies keep the money that people pay them for premiums. They take as much cash as possible in, and then they pay out as little as possible.
Our Goal
When you retain us, our job is to maximize any compensation that you might receive from an opposing insured. Always be aware of the fact that they have highly trained claims representatives and defense attorneys who work for them. Our goal is to maximize any proceeds that you might receive as compensation for your injuries. The other side has highly trained insurance adjusters and defense attorneys, so you’ll want to level the playing field by having your own experienced, aggressive and effective attorneys representing you too.
Your Personal Injury Damages
It doesn’t matter whether you were injured by the negligence of somebody in Indiana or Kentucky, both states have the same laws on the damages that you can claim. Those damages can consist of:
- Past and future medical bills
- Past and future lost earnings or diminished future earnings
- Any permanent disfigurement
- Any permanent disability
- A diminished capacity in life
- Funeral and burial bills if an accident results in a wrongful death
We Want Your Case Closed Too
As soon as you’ve hired us as your personal injury attorneys after being injured in an accident, we’re going to assemble all of the evidence in your case, and then we’re going to put it under the chin of the insurance adjuster who is assigned to your case. If he or she is unreasonable or is otherwise delaying your claim, that’s not a problem for us. We’ll be happy to let a judge and a jury make the important decisions. We aim to give you the best possible trial that you can get.
Contact a New Albany Personal Injury and Auto Accident Lawyer
Whether your injuries were suffered in New Albany, Louisville or anywhere else, don’t give any type of a statement to the opposing insurance company. It might try to give you a guilty conscience about not giving one, but it’s only going to use our own words against you in the future. The law doesn’t require you to give any kind of a statement at all. The best thing that you can do is to politely refuse to give any kind of a statement and contact us right away for a free consultation and case evaluation right away. Anything that you say to us is confidential, and we’ll advise you of all of your legal options.
