Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers represents those injured in bicycle accidents in Tulare, CA, helping them recover financial compensation for their injuries, medical bills, pain and suffering, lost wages and more.
If you are a bicycle accident victim, you need experienced lawyers by your side if you want to be able to recover the most money possible to compensate you for your injuries. Our law firm has been representing bicycle accident victims since 1990 and has recovered more than 0,000,000 for clients. Our vast experience in handling bike accident cases means we can recover the most compensation possible for your injuries.
We represent those with bicycle accident injuries on a contingency fee basis. What this means is that we will not charge any fee to handle your bicycle accident claim until and unless we obtain a financial recovery on your behalf. We won’t charge any upfront fees or out-of-pocket fees when we handle your personal injury case. The only fee you’ll owe our Tulare bicycle accident lawyers is a percentage of any money we recover on your behalf.
If you have suffered injuries, even serious injuries like traumatic brain injuries, that you can’t afford to have treated, we can get you to doctors who will treat you on a lien, meaning you won’t be charged any medical expenses until your case is over. Doctors do this for us because they know we get great results for injured bicyclists.
Call us today for a free consultation, text us from this page or fill out this page’s free case evaluation form if you or a loved one was injured or killed in a bicycle accident in Tulare or Tulare County.
Compensation a Tulare Bicycle Accident Lawyer Can Recover for You
If you have suffered common bicycle accident injuries like broken bones or head injuries, or even some not-so-common injuries, a Tulare bicycle accident attorney at our firm can help you recover financial compensation for:
Medical Bills
When we handle bicycle accident cases, compensation for medical bills usually ends up being the biggest chunk of our clients’ compensation. Sometimes our clients are already facing medical bills when they come to us, and sometimes our clients also need future medical treatments. When we handle your bicycle accident case, we can help you recover compensation for any past or future medical bills related to your accident.
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Lost Wages
Bicycle accidents can happen for many reasons, like a defective bicycle or vehicles straying into bike lanes. Whatever the reason for your accident, though, it may have left you unable to work for a period of time, and once you go back to work, you might have to take more time off here and there to get your injuries treated. We help clients recover compensation for lost wages after bike accidents.
Loss of Earning Capacity
Bicycle accidents can leave their victims with severe injuries since bicyclists don’t have a vehicle frame protecting them from collisions. When we handle bicycle accident claims, sometimes clients come to us with disabilities caused by their accident, and these disabilities represent a loss or reduction of their earning capacity which we help them recover financial compensation for.
Property Damage
Many bicycle accident claims involve expensive bicycles being damaged or destroyed. When bicycle accidents occur, we help our clients recover the cost to repair or replace their expensive bicycles.
Pain and Suffering
Bicycle accidents can lead to severe injuries like spinal cord injuries which cause tremendous physical pain and mental suffering. A personal injury lawyer at our firm can place an accurate value on the pain and suffering you’ve gone through and make sure you are fairly compensated for it.
Wrongful Death
Unfortunately, sometimes when a motor vehicle strikes a bicyclist, the bicyclist is killed. If your loved one suffered fatal injuries from a bicycle accident, we can help you recover compensation for:
- Your loved one’s burial and funeral costs
- Your loved one’s pain, suffering and medical bills
- The loss of your loved one’s income and household services
- The loss of your loved one’s love, companionship and consortium
- Your grieving and your suffering
What Does Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers Do for Those Injured in Bicycle Accidents?
Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers work for bicyclists injured by other parties’ negligence. Negligence is failing to be reasonably careful to prevent harm from happening. California law allows those injured by negligence to recover compensation from the at-fault party.
We represent those injured in bicycle accidents and help them protect their legal rights in numerous ways. We work to obtain compensation for the damages you’ve suffered. Things we can do to help you include:
Discussing the Details of Your Accident
Our law firm will begin by performing a free case evaluation. We’ll ask you questions regarding your bike accident and the ways in which you have been affected by it. We’ll listen to you, keeping an ear out for specific information which we can utilize to build a strong case for you. If we require additional facts, we’ll ask follow-up questions.
We will obtain details regarding:
- Your injuries as well as other damages
- Who caused your accident
- Your future and current costs
- How your life has been impacted by the accident
- Which insurance policies are relevant to your accident
If you possess photos, videos or additional info from the scene of the accident, we’ll examine them. We’ll utilize what you already possess in order to begin building your case.
Performing a Case Investigation
We’ll begin investigating your case immediately. Some of the investigation we’ll do ourselves. If we need additional info, we’ll hire experts.
Our investigation may include:
- Visiting the scene of the accident
- Taking photos of the accident scene as well as any damages you suffered
- Obtaining copies of the accident report and your medical records
- Interviewing witnesses
- Examining the damages you suffered
We will utilize evidence to determine what party or parties are liable for your accident. Most of the time, other drivers are at fault for bicycle accidents, but sometimes multiple parties can be involved, such as cases involving dangerous roadway conditions, in which government agencies may be held liable.
Collecting Evidence
We’ll utilize multiple steps listed above in order to collect evidence. We know how important proof is for your injury claim. We’ll need to be able to demonstrate how your life has been impacted by your accident.
We will recover evidence of damages you’ve suffered, such as:
- Prescription medications
- Treatment costs
- Loss of earning capacity
- Lost wages
- Pain and suffering
- Property damage
- Mental anguish
Many bike accident victims underestimate the total costs of their accidents. We will consider medical expenses you may incur in the future as well as additional “hidden” damages which aren’t immediately apparent.
Notifying All Parties Involved
Once you hire us, we’ll let the at-fault parties know we’re representing you.
For example, the driver of a car might be at fault regarding your crash. We’d contact that driver’s insurer so the insurance company knows we’re representing you. That company will need to communicate with us instead of you. This prevents insurance companies from exploiting or taking advantage of accident victims like you.
Sending a Demand Letter
Once we investigate your case, we’ll send the insurance company a demand letter. This letter begins the claim for financial compensation for your injuries. This letter will contain accident details, as well as go into detail regarding the damages you’re seeking.
Handling Insurance Companies
This is possibly the most important thing we do for clients.
You see, insurance companies aren’t your friend. They’re not concerned with paying you the money you need after being injured in a bike crash. They’re concerned with making a profit.
The first thing an insurance company will always do when their insured injures someone else is send a very tiny offer to the injury victim, hoping the injury victim accepts this offer and signs a waiver preventing them from recovering future compensation.
The insurance company won’t offer you much more than this tiny offer, if any more at all, unless you can make them offer you what you are actually entitled to under the law, which is compensation for all of your damages up to the policy limits. The only way you can make them offer you what you’re entitled to is to sue them over a low ball offer and win said lawsuit.
The insurance company is very aware that you cannot win a lawsuit against them if you don’t have a lawyer. So, if you don’t have a lawyer, they’ll never offer you anywhere near what you’re entitled to.
However, the last thing any insurance company wants to see is a letter from an experienced bicycle accident lawyer like the lawyers at our firm, who have a long, well-established track record of winning in court. When insurance companies see a letter from a law firm like us, look us up in their files and realize that when we go to court, we win, they know that they have to pay you what you’re entitled to out of court in order to avoid having to pay expensive legal fees in a court battle and what you’re entitled to when they lose the case. Almost every single one of our bike accident cases settles out of court because insurance companies fear and respect us, our experience and our track record.
In addition, insurance companies are going to want a recorded statement from you before they pay you anything if you don’t have a lawyer. Once they start recording you, they’re going to try to trick you into saying things they can later use against you. They might trick you into admitting fault for your accident without even realizing it. They might trick you into implying your injuries aren’t as severe as you’re claiming without even realizing it. They’re very good at manipulating injury victims like you.
When you hire us, we’ll handle all negotiations and communications with insurance companies for you, preventing you from incriminating yourself and forcing insurance companies to pay you what you’re entitled to under California law.
Preparing for Trial and Representing You in Court
Most of our cases settle out of court, but if an insurance company outright refuses to offer you a just, fair settlement, we may file a lawsuit on your behalf. We will then prepare a complaint and start the process of discovery.
Prior to your trial, we will again negotiate with the insurance company. Many settlements are reached at this stage. If the insurance company still refuses to offer you a fair settlement, then we will represent you in court.
Is There a Time Limit to File a Bicycle Accident Claim in Tulare?
There is a time limit in California to file a lawsuit seeking compensation for injuries resulting from negligence. This time limit is known as a statute of limitations and the purpose of it is to make sure any trial is fair, since evidence and memories can deteriorate over time, making trials less fair.
The time limit in California to file injury lawsuits is usually two years from the date of the injury. Failure to file a lawsuit within two years of the date of your injury may forever bar you from recovering compensation for your injuries.
There are exceptions to the two year statute in California, some of which shorten the time limit and some of which lengthen it. Perhaps the most important exception to keep in mind is if a government entity is liable in your case, in which case the time limit is reduced to only six months from the date of the accident.
The best way to find out if you still qualify to file a bicycle accident lawsuit is to call us today for a free consultation. Calling us today also gives us as much time as possible to perform a thorough case investigation, collect evidence, build a strong, convincing case on your behalf and make sure any paperwork is file in a timely fashion.
Call us today for a free consultation if you or a loved one was injured or killed in a bike crash in Tulare. Remember – we won’t charge you any fee until we win your case.
