Car and Truck Accidents

A car accident is a traumatic experience, for those who get hurt as well as for their family members.  If you have been injured in an automobile, truck, or motorcycle accident, you may now be in great pain, maybe still hospitalized.  You may be unable to work, possibly for a prolonged period of time, and perhaps even permanently. You’re worried about how to pay for your housing and your car payments, how to put food on the table.

You may expect the insurance companies to provide compensation – after all, that’s why we all pay the premiums month after month.  But you may be in for a big disappointment.  Maybe they’re stalling.  Or maybe they offered you a small amount of money that doesn’t even come close to meeting your needs.  What can you do?

The first thing you should do is consult an experienced personal injury lawyer, one who has extensive experience with car accident cases.  If your accident occurred in Springfield, Illinois or elsewhere in Central Illinois, including the cities of Champaign, Peoria, Taylorville, Jacksonville, Decatur, Bloomington, and the counties of McLean, Macoupin, Logan, Peoria, Sangamon, Macon, Tazewell, Pike, Menard, Champaign, Morgan and Mason, consider calling us right here in Springfield at Londrigan, Potter & Randle, P.C.  Chances are excellent that we will have the right attorney for you.

While no lawyer can ever make the accident undone, we can help protect you from the worst of its economic fall-out.  We can help you get compensated for injuries, medical and rehabilitation expenses, lost income, as well as pain and suffering.

Accident cases are far more complex than meets the eye.  While there are common threads in terms of what may have caused the accident – inattention of the driver, excessive speed, aggressive driving, even bad weather and the failure to adjust to the resulting road conditions, each case has its very individual challenges.  Truck and motorcycle accidents pose additional complications.

On the surface, it may seem obvious that the other party was at fault, but in court there needs to be proof, and proof must be meticulously gathered and preserved.  The exact extent of the damage also must be proven in court.  Many cases require expert witnesses.  Some cases can be very challenging indeed, but we at Londrigan, Potter & Randle are up to the challenge.

In fact, tough cases are our specialty.  We excel at handling meritorious, challenging cases, cases that other lawyers find too difficult or expensive to tackle.  Many of our cases have actually been referred to us by other lawyers because they know our track record.   And so do the insurance companies.

But there is one thing we cannot do.  If too much time has lapsed, if the evidence has disappeared, we won’t be able to help you.  It is important to get legal help immediately so that the evidence can be preserved and will be available when the case goes to trial.

While the insurance may have already offered you a settlement, that doesn’t mean you won’t need an attorney.  Chances are that they were making a low-ball offer.  They will try to pay the smallest amount of money they can get away with. Don’t take it, and especially don’t sign anything without talking to an attorney first.

Why not? You may be entitled to a far bigger settlement. There may be policies that the insurance companies don’t want you to know about.  There might be other involved parties that are not immediately obvious, such as the driver’s employer or even the manufacturer of the automobile or truck that hit you.  We have ample experience with digging up that information and using it to help you.

There is another aspect to accident cases:  your injuries.  That’s where expert witnesses can become vitally important.  They can provide crucial evidence when it comes to assessing just how serious and extensive the injuries are and what it will take – in medical and rehabilitative care – to recover from them.  Any settlement will have to cover those expenses, or it will be woefully inadequate.

Then there are the economic consequences of an accident as well as your pain and suffering.  Laws are very complex in those areas.  It takes a very experienced and skilled attorney to get you what you are really entitled to, and we have the experience and the determination as well as the track record to get you the compensation you are due.

You may wonder what it might be like to be a client of ours?  You will be pleasantly surprised.  We believe in personal as well as professional service. You will be able to speak with your lawyer personally, not just with legal assistants and paralegals, and we will do everything in our power to help you.

With Londrigan, Potter & Randle, P.C., you will have a powerful team on your side.  Our attorneys, among the best in the business, are known for their toughness and expertise, and their ability to excel at handling the toughest cases.  In fact, our reputation makes the lawyers on the other side more willing to be cooperative because they know what they are dealing with.

So if you need a good lawyer, one that will be your partner as well as your advocate, and one with a long track record of success as well as one who has roots in the community, call us at Londrigan, Potter & Randle, P.C. at 1-800/544-9823.

And please don’t wait.  We may be able to tackle the toughest cases, but if too much time has passed and evidence has disappeared, even we may not be able to help you.  Don’t let that happen to you. 

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Web Resources for Car and Truck Accidents:

• National Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

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