Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers represents those who have been injured in drunk driving accidents in Tulare, CA and Tulare County, helping them recover financial compensation for medical bills, lost wages, pain, suffering, wrongful death and more.
We represent drunk driving accident victims on a contingency fee basis, which means that we do not charge a fee to handle cases involving drunk driving crashes until and unless we recover financial compensation, which means that the only fee we charge is a percentage of any recovery obtained, and we will never charge an upfront fee or out-of-pocket fee.
If you can’t afford to have your injuries treated, we can get you to doctors who will treat you on a lien, which means that you will not be charged for your treatment until your case is over. We work with a network of the best doctors in Tulare County who are willing to do this for our clients because they know that our clients receive excellent results from us.
We have been helping those injured by drunk drivers, as well as other injury victims, for over 30 years, having recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of our clients. When we handle your drunk driving accident case, you can rest assured that we have the experience and resources to recover the most compensation possible on your behalf.
Call a Tulare DUI accident attorney at Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers today for a free consultation if you or a loved one was injured or killed by a drunk driver. You can also fill out this page’s free case evaluation form or, if you like, you can text us from this page.
Compensation Available After Drunk Driving Accidents
If you or a loved one were injured or killed by a drunk driver, California law entitles you to compensation for your injuries. A Tulare drunk driving accident lawyer can help you recover financial compensation for:
Medical Bills
If you are a drunk driving accident victim, you may already owe money in the form of medical bills for treatment related to your injuries. In addition, you may have sustained serious injuries which will require further treatment in the future – treatment which will generate yet more bills. A Tulare DUI accident lawyer at our firm can help you recover financial compensation for all past and future medical expenses related to the injuries you sustained in a drunk driving crash.
Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers
Tulare, CA 93274
(559) 772-1212
Lost Wages
If you were injured in a car crash involving an intoxicated driver, you may have missed time from work because you were hurt too severely to work. In addition, you may have to take time off from work in order to get your drunk driving accident injuries treated. The Tulare DUI accident attorneys at our firm can help you recover compensation for any wages you’re not able to earn due to your injuries.
Loss of Earning Capacity
If you were injured in a car accident involving intoxicated driving, you may have been left disabled by your injuries, and this disability may represent a loss or reduction of your earning capacity. A personal injury attorney at our firm can help you recover compensation for this loss or reduction of your earning capacity.
Property Damage
Your vehicle may have been damaged or totaled in your motor vehicle accident. In addition, property inside your vehicle at the time of your accident may have been damaged or destroyed. A personal injury lawyer at our firm can help you recover compensation for any property damage sustained in your drunk driving crash.
Pain and Suffering
Drunk driving crashes often leave their victims experiencing tremendous amounts of physical pain and mental suffering. Our Tulare DUI accident lawyers have spent decades placing accurate values on our clients’ pain and suffering and ensuring our clients are fairly and justly compensated for that pain and suffering.
Wrongful Death
Unfortunately, DUI accidents are sometimes fatal car accidents. If you have lost a loved one in a drunk driving crash, no amount of financial compensation can bring your loved one back. However, we can help you recover compensation which can ensure your family does not have to go through financial hardship due to the loss of your loved one.
Our Tulare drunk driving accident attorneys can help you recover financial compensation for:
- The grieving and suffering you’ve endured due to the loss of your loved one
- The income, companionship, love and household services your loved one would have provided had they not passed
- The funeral bills, burial bills, pain, suffering and medical bills of your loved one
Punitive Damages
Our Tulare DUI accident victim attorneys will seek punitive damages on your behalf in order to maximize your financial recovery, punish the drunk driver and deter others from driving drunk in the future.
We Will Hold the Drunk Driver Accountable
Some states are “no-fault states” and some states are “fault states.” In no-fault states, when people are injured in accidents, they recover compensation for their injuries from their own insurance companies, regardless of who is at fault for the accident.
However, California is a fault states. This means that the party who is at fault for an accident is financially liable for any injuries sustained in the accident.
In order to hold at-fault drivers liable for injuries which are sustained in accidents, victims need to be capable of establishing that the at-fault drivers bear liability for the accidents.
Liability is based upon the legal theory of negligence. Negligence means failing to exercise reasonable care in order to prevent harm. In terms of car accidents, many different things can constitute negligence, such as speeding or distracted driving.
Drunk driving is, of course, negligent. Someone who is reasonably careful would not drive while drunk. In fact, it is perhaps the most negligent form of driving.
Drunk drivers often commit many forms of negligence simultaneously. They’re prone to speeding, violating additional traffic laws, and have difficulty avoiding distractions and paying attention to the road.
Because of this, you might think it’s easy to prove that drunk drivers are liable. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy.
Drunk drivers and their insurance companies will often defend drunk driving accident claims very aggressively by doing things like undervaluing damages to attempting to blame victims for the accidents. Every successful car accident claim, including any DUI accident claim, is build upon a strong foundation of well-presented, reliable and compelling evidence.
Our lawyers can assist you in putting together an effective, strong legal claim. Evidence which is relevant in a drunk driving case may come in numerous different forms.
Notable evidence types which are often used in order to prove liability in drunk driving claims include:
- Arrest records
- Police reports
- Drunk driving convictions
- Evidence which is presented during criminal trials
- Witness testimonies
- Accident photos
Since California allows for comparative negligence, defendants and insurance companies will often attempt to pin part of the blame for accidents on injury victims. If successful at this, it reduces the insurance company’s financial liability, reducing how much compensation the victim can recover.
Drunk driving accident victims need to aggressively fight back against unfair assignment of fault.
Injury victims can protect their financial interests and legal rights by carefully collecting and gathering evidence in order to prove that a drunk driver is fully responsible for their accident.
The legal team at Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers, led by Jeffrey Nadrich, Esq., can help you build a solid case and prove that the drunk driver is responsible for your injuries. Our attorneys have the necessary experience and are committed to fighting for your rights as well as providing you with all of the legal support you require.
Do I Need Tulare Drunk Driving Accident Lawyers?
If you or a loved one has been injured or killed by a drunk driver, California law entitles you to compensation for your injuries from the drunk driver. However, in most cases the drunk driver will not actually be the one who pays for injuries – rather, it is usually the drunk driver’s insurance company who ends up paying.
California law requires those who injure others via negligence to pay for the injuries. What this means, in effect, is the drunk driver’s insurance company is legally obligated to pay you up to policy limits for your injuries.
However, this legal obligation is an obligation which can only be enforced through the civil court system. This means that if an insurance company gives you a low ball offer, the only way you can force them to pay you what you’re legally entitled to is to file a lawsuit in civil court and win that lawsuit.
Insurance companies don’t make money by just paying everyone what they ask for. Insurance companies make money by paying injury victims as little money as possible. If you aren’t represented by experienced attorneys like the attorneys at our firm, the drunk driver’s insurance company will know you cannot sue them and win, since the insurance company has a lot of money and can afford to hire lawyers to take you on in court. Since the insurance company will know you can’t sue them and win, they simply will not offer you anywhere close to what you’re actually legally entitled to for your injuries. They’ll offer you a very tiny percentage of what you’re entitled to and dare you to take them on in court over it, knowing you can’t win in court without a lawyer.
If you want to recover the money you’re entitled to from the insurance company, you’ll need a lawyer to do so. Studies show that injury victims who hire legal representation end up recovering a lot more money for their injuries than victims who don’t – even after taking attorney fees into consideration. When insurance companies see letters of representation from us, they know they can no longer get away with low ball offers. They know that low ball offers will see them sued and beaten in court. They know it’s in their best interest at this point to offer you fair compensation, as if they don’t, they’ll have to spend money on lawyers, lose in court, and have to pay you fair compensation anyway. Almost every single one of our drunk driving cases settles out of court for this reason.
In addition, the last thing you want to do after being injured by a drunk driver is to talk to the drunk driver’s insurance company – it’s dangerous for you to do this and you should let a lawyer do it for you instead. Insurance adjusters are trained by their employers to trick drunk driving accident victims like you into accidentally admitting fault for accidents or accidentally implying they’re not injured as severely as they claim. If an insurance adjuster succeeds at manipulating you into saying the wrong thing, the value of your claim can instantly plummet, costing you thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Call us today for a free consultation so we can force the drunk driver’s insurance company to pay you what you’re legally entitled to and handle all conversations and negotiations with insurance companies for you so you don’t have to worry about incriminating yourself. We will handle every aspect of your drunk driving case so you can simply focus on recovering from your injuries.
Is There a Time Limit to File a Claim?
Injury victims in California, including drunk driving accident victims, generally have two years to file a claim seeking financial compensation for their injuries. This time limit is called a statute of limitations and if you fail to file a claim in time, you may be forever barred from recovering compensation for your damages.
However, it is important to note that some exceptions to this time limit exist – some exceptions give you more time and some exceptions give you less time. The most important exception to keep in mind is when government entities are involved. Say, for example, you’ve been injured by a drunk driver, but a dangerous roadway condition which a government entity should have fixed was also partially responsible for your accident. In this case, you’d only have six months to file a claim.
We have thorough knowledge of all statutes of limitations in California. The best way to find out if you qualify to file a claim is to call us today for a free consultation if you or a loved one was injured or killed in a drunk driving crash in Tulare. Remember: we won’t charge any fee to handle your drunk driving accident injury case until and unless we recover compensation for you. Call us today.
