Gary is where I-65 meets the Borman and the Toll Road, and where Broadway runs straight south to our Merrillville office. We have represented Gary families for years in crash, premises, and wrongful death cases. Our Merrillville office is at 8002 Utah Street, Merrillville, IN 46410, and you can reach it at (219) 472-8391. If you cannot come to us, we will come to you, including hospital and home visits for seriously injured clients.
The I-65/I-80/94 interchange and the U.S. 12 and U.S. 20 corridors through Gary generate frequent multi-vehicle and commercial truck crashes, and Methodist Northlake is the trauma center that receives most of the injured. Gary also has a large share of premises cases: poorly maintained apartment properties, inadequate security, and unshoveled walks. Government-owned property is common here, so the 180-day tort claim notice deadline comes up often and we calendar it on day one.
Where Gary cases are filed: Lake Superior Court, Civil Division, in Gary, or at the Government Center in Crown Point.
Hospitals we work with for Gary clients: Methodist Hospitals Northlake (Gary), Methodist Hospitals Southlake (Merrillville). We request records and bills directly so you are not chasing them.
Car, truck, and motorcycle crashes; pedestrian and bicycle collisions; slip and fall and premises liability; dog bites; wrongful death; catastrophic injuries including traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury; and uninsured and underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) claims against your own insurer.
Our demand packages are litigation-grade: a full medical chronology, a causation analysis that confronts the gaps and pre-existing conditions the adjuster will raise, and a damages model that separates medical specials, lost wages, and future care from pain and suffering. Adjusters value cases higher when the file in front of them is ready for a courtroom.
Health insurers, Medicare, Medicaid, and hospitals often assert liens against a settlement. We identify every lien, audit it for errors, and negotiate reductions so that the money you receive at the end is as large as possible.
Most injury claims must be filed within two years of the date of injury (Ind. Code § 34-11-2-4). If a city, county, or state agency is involved, a tort claim notice may be required within 180 days. The sooner you call, the more evidence we can preserve.
A Chicago-area native who worked in telecommunications and held two jobs to support his family before law school, Jason founded the firm in 2010 on a no-nonsense, plain-spoken approach to solving clients’ problems.
Admitted to the Indiana bar at 24, the youngest licensed attorney in the state at the time, Miguel pairs that early start with more than fifteen years helping Northwest Indiana families through injury claims and bankruptcy.
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Most Gary injury cases are filed in Lake Superior Court, Civil Division, in Gary, or at the Government Center in Crown Point. Our attorneys appear there regularly and know the local judges, the mediators, and the defense firms the insurers hire.
Most personal injury cases settle before trial. But insurers pay more to firms that are prepared to try the case, and we are.
It depends on your medical treatment, lost income, the permanence of the injury, available insurance, and fault. We will give you an honest assessment after reviewing your records, not a number designed to get you to sign.
Five minutes on the phone and you will know where you stand. You will not owe us a fee unless we recover money for you, and the bills get handled before the check does.