Edwardsville Injury Lawyer

Victims are often encumbered by injuries, property damage, emotional distress, and financial loss.

The long-term effects of even minor accidents can be detrimental to a person’s quality of life.

Injury victims may be hesitant to file a personal injury claim, intimidated by the court system, choice of personal injury lawyers, and questions of future results.

Edwardsville personal injury attorneys from TorHoerman Law can help alleviate these burdens and achieve justice, using the legal system to help you regain financial stability to cover the costs of your medical expenses, financial losses, emotional damages, and other costs.

Downsides of Working with Insurance Providers

A victim of an injury is often hesitant to seek legal aid and instead will work directly with the other party’s insurance providers to gain compensation in the form of insurance coverage.

The coverage provided by insurers almost always greatly undervalues the costs associated with an injury.

Experienced Edwardsville personal injury lawyers will be able to properly assess the total costs associated with the incident, file personal injury claims, and work on your behalf to get full financial compensation that you deserve.

Whether you're dealing with motor vehicle accidents, workers compensation, serious injury, dangerous drug or device, or any other sort of personal injury or legal issue, we have you covered.

How Much Does do Edwardsville Lawyers Cost to Hire?

Hiring a lawyer is an important decision and should be taken with much consideration.

Too often, hiring cheap legal representation ends poorly and issues are left unchanged.

An experienced personal injury lawyer can help.

TorHoerman Law operates on a contingency fee basis.

With working on a contingency fee basis, our clients do not pay legal service fees until they have been fully compensated for their losses.

If you do not receive compensation, our law firm will foot the bill for all legal costs.

When we do work to gain you financial recovery, we factor in our own legal fees to ensure that you get as much compensation as possible to fully recover from your injury.

When you are involved in an accident, your insurance provider or the other party’s insurance provider may offer some coverage to compensate for your losses.

If an insurance company does not cover, you may not have any non-legal avenues to pursue justice.

A personal injury lawyer from TorHoerman Law will act on your behalf to either negotiate higher levels of compensation from the insurers or in the case that insurance does not cover the cost of medical care, they will navigate the civil litigation process to gain your financial compensation through legal action.

In the instance that your personal injury lawyer believes they will be able to gain adequate compensation from insurance providers, they will negotiate a settlement through arbitration and keep your case out of court.

Steps a Lawyer Will Take

If a lawsuit is necessary, personal injury lawyers will build your case by:

1. Gathering Evidence
2. Assessing Damages
3. Determining Liability

These three steps will help build a case to ensure that you have a strong personal injury claim.

1. Gathering Evidence

Evidence is one of the most important pieces of personal injury claim.

Personal injury cases are won and lost based solely on evidence available.

Your attorney will first gather evidence to prove two key components:

1. How and why the accident or injury occurred
2. What damages resulted from the accident or injury

You can assist your attorney in gathering and preserving personal injury evidence.

Some evidence you can begin to gather after the accident includes:

• Photos and videos of the scene
• Contact information for all witnesses, parties involved, and responding authorities
• A written personal account of the incident, in as much detail as possible
• Photos and videos of any damages or injuries and follow-up photos and videos of injuries as they progress
• Any bills associated with the accident (medical bills, property damage bills, etc.)

If you are unable to collect these materials, Edwardsville injury lawyers will be able to assist in gathering this evidence.

2. Assessing Damages

Damages are the total losses, both economic and non-economic, that you incur as a result of an accident or injury.

It is difficult to assess damages, especially the full scope of potential future damages, unless you have an understanding of the law.

A victim is often led to believe that their damages are valued considerably lower than they actually are.

An attorney will always factor in all potential damages so that their client does not suffer any current or future monetary losses because of an accident or injury that they did not cause.

Some damages to consider include:

• Damages to property
• Costs of injury and medical treatment
• Future medical costs
• Costs of emotional distress
• Lost wages
• Lost potential earnings
• Non-economic costs – such as loss of abilities, loss of enjoyment of life, etc

These are just a few of the many potential damages that can result from a personal injury or accident.

Your attorney may also discuss making a demand for punitive damages along with these compensatory damages.

3. Determining Liability

Determining who is actually at fault for an accident or injury can be more difficult than one might think.

Oftentimes, multiple parties share liability for an accident or injury.

Even the victim themselves can hold some liability.

Your attorney will use the evidence they gather to paint a picture of the events and properly determine liability for your accident or injuries.

THL handles dozens of complex cases in many personal injury practice areas.

We will provide you with formal legal advice and will fight for fair compensation while you make a full recovery.

Reach out to us for a free case evaluation if you or a loved one have been involved in any of the following:

• Car accidents or truck accidents
• Premises liability
• Workers compensation
• Medical malpractice
• Wrongful death
• Catastrophic injuries
• Mass torts
• Product liability
• Dangerous drugs and medical devices
• Abuse and Assault

If you do not see your potential case listed above, explore our practice area pages or contact us for more information.  

If you believe that you may qualify to file a personal injury lawsuit, you should contact an experienced Edwardsville personal injury lawyer from TorHoerman Law to discuss your legal options right away.

TorHoerman Law will offer a free consultation to all potential clients.

Before moving forward, there are a couple steps you should take to help build a strong case in your favor:

1. Mitigate damages
2. Find an Edwardsville personal injury lawyer

1. Mitigation

Mitigating damages is one of the most crucial steps in this process and possibly the most important thing you can do before even taking legal action.

Mitigating damages is the process of minimizing the financial and physical impacts caused by your accident.

Essentially, this means that you do everything in your power to keep the costs associated with your accident or injury low.

Mitigate your physical and emotional damages by seeking medical treatment as soon as possible after your accident or injury.

Make sure to follow your doctor’s orders and be careful not to further your injuries.

You can mitigate your financial losses by getting assessments of all damages and losses and fixing any properties that have essential use to you before putting them back into operation.

Failure to properly mitigate injuries, with medical issues left unchanged and able to worsen, can result in a dismissal of any legal action.

2. Find an Edwardsville Injury Lawyer

Choosing an attorney or law firm is an important decision and should be taken with much consideration.

You should feel comfortable with your decision and should not have any hesitations moving forward.

Some things you should consider include:

• The attorney’s experience in litigating the specific personal injury
• The law firm’s resources and background
• The attorney or law firm’s familiarity with the local court system
• The attorney or law firm’s history and record
• The attorney’s commitment to your case

Consider contacting an Edwardsville personal injury attorney from TorHoerman Law.

We are happy to discuss topics of your concern and address any other inquiries that you may have about our services and your potential case.

TorHoerman Law has achieved more than $4 billion in verdicts and negotiated settlements for a variety of personal injury cases.

Our past results afford us recognition as some of the best personal injury lawyers in Southern Illinois.

From dangerous drug and pesticide lawsuits, to car accidents and related personal injuries, our team of Edwardsville lawyers has put in the work to get justice for people around the country.

We have some of the best attorneys in the state staffed on our team – and we aren’t just saying that.

A number of our attorneys own merits of success and have been named Top Lawyers in Illinois including Top 100 Lawyers in the state of Illinois; prestigious awards given through nominations by their peers in the industry.

Our focus is based solely on competent legal representation, relationship building, and full financial recovery for your serious injuries.

Consider contacting TorHoerman Law in your search for a personal injury lawyer in Edwardsville IL.

TorHoerman Law - Serving and Supporting Illinois Residents

Our Main Street Edwardsville law office is comprised of staff and attorneys that live in the community.

We pride ourselves on serving the Edwardsville and Southern Illinois communities and giving back to its residents through events and donation drives.

Our law firm accepts personal injury claims in Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, Collinsville, Granite City, Alton, East Alton, Wood River, and more across Southern Illinois.

Reach out to us for a free consultation today – Your friends. Your neighbors. Your Personal Injury Lawyer in Edwardsville IL.