Indianapolis Personal Injury Lawyer

Personal injuries can happen at any time and can alter your life forever. According to the Indiana State Department of Health Injury Prevention Program, unintentional (accidental) fatalities comprised 65 percent of all injury-related deaths in Indiana. It doesn’t matter if your personal injury was caused from a fall, product defect, or motor vehicle accident, you could be entitled to compensation for your personal injuries, medical bills and lost income, and the subsequent hardships forced upon you.

The Indianapolis personal injury lawyer at the Law Office of Kelley J. Johnson can help you recover the costs and anguish inflicted by someone else’s negligence or carelessness. Call our Indianapolis personal injury attorney today at the toll-free number or use our online contact form to have us review your case free of charge. We do not handle all personal injury cases and may not take your case depending on your situation.

Personal Injury Cases We Take

The Indianapolis personal injury lawyer at the Law Office of Kelley J. Johnson takes a variety of personal injury cases, including:

• Car Accidents: Car accident cases occur when two vehicles collide and an individual is wrongfully injured due to the negligence of the person who caused the collision.
• Construction Accidents: Construction accident cases happen when a construction company does not take proper safety precautions for their workers, leading to injuries suffered by a construction worker.
• Motorcycle Accidents: Motorcycle accident cases arise when a vehicle collides with a motorcycle, leading to the motorcycle rider suffering injuries due to the negligence of the driver who hit them.
• Truck Accidents: Truck accident cases occur when a semi-truck collides with a vehicle and the driver of the vehicle suffers injuries. These cases can lead to the trucking company being at fault for overworking the truck driver, leading to drowsy driving.
• Wrongful Death: Wrongful death cases happen when someone’s negligence results in the death of another person. The family of the deceased can peruse a wrongful death case to help alleviate the financial burden of losing a loved one.
• Premises Liability: Premises liability cases happen when someone is wrongfully injured on another person’s property due to negligence by the property owner. These types of cases can occur for both commercial and residential properties.

Indiana Injury Lawsuit Statistics

In a study published by The Injury and Violence Prevention Program of the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH), the following was found:

More than 10,000 fatalities resulted from the injury, which accounted for 6 percent of all deaths in Indiana. Unintentional injuries were the 5th leading cause of death for all ages and the leading cause for persons aged 1 to 34 years. The five leading causes of all unintentional injury deaths were car accidents (41.5 percent), unspecified (12 percent), falls (12 percent), suffocation (8 percent), and poisonings (7 percent).

Unintentional injuries comprised 84 percent of all injury-related hospital admissions. The five leading causes of injury-related hospitalizations were falls (46 percent), car accidents (16 percent), poisoning (16 percent), struck by/against (4 percent), and other transport (3 percent).

The Indiana State Department of Health also concluded that falls were the leading cause of unintentional injury hospitalizations, composing 55 percent of unintentional injury-related hospitalizations, and that falls were the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury deaths in Indiana. Other findings by this study concluded that motorcyclists in Indiana were involved in 332 fatalities accounting for nearly eight percent of all fatal crashes during the time of the study. In Indiana, more than 156,000 thousand nonfatal injuries and illnesses were reported in private industry workplaces, including construction accidents. Men accounted for 90 percent of the occupational injuries in Indiana.

In another study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) that looked at traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain concluded.

Of the 1.4 million who sustain a TBI each year in the United States:

• 50,000 die.
• 235,000 are hospitalized.
• 1.1 million are treated and released from emergency rooms.

Contact a Personal Injury Attorney in Indianapolis

Have you been injured and need the help of an Indianapolis personal injury lawyer? If so, contact our Indianapolis injury attorney at the Law Office of Kelley J. Johnson to help you get the compensation to which you are entitled through an injury lawsuit. Call us today.