Louisville, Kentucky Personal Injury Lawyer

If you have been injured in a car crash, truck or motorcycle accident, and need a Louisville personal injury attorney to fight for your rights, contact me at the Law Office of Michael P. Sullivan. Because I have extensive experience with disability and personal injury cases, I know the tactics of insurance companies. I am not afraid to stand up to them to get you the compensation you deserve. I generally advise most of my clients not to allow recorded interviews with adjusters for at-fault insurance carriers, (or anyone else), outside the presence of their licensed attorney. 

Team effort, effective legal representation

My office is very effective at pursuing auto accident cases. I work closely with my highly trained staff and a fellow attorney, Robert Florio, who has extensive litigation experience. We can investigate the causes of the accident, and sometimes employ medical experts to discover the scope and extent of injuries that result from an accident. Sometimes auto accidents and the resulting bodily or personal injuries can result in permanent disabilities, and we are successful at pursuing ERISA and long term disability and Social Security Disability cases. Contact me for a free consultation. I do not collect a fee unless I get money for you. Evening and weekend appointments are available.

Introduction

This law office practices primarily disability law. After many years of focusing on a particular area of law, one becomes reasonably well adept at dealing with medical issues. When it comes to injuries and auto accidents, the medical side of the case has some very similar features to that which we confront in a disability case. Namely, what is wrong with the client and how impaired are they by the injuries.

After years of cross examining medical experts and vocational experts in administrative hearing, the same type of proof skills transition fairly well to injury cases. The whole idea is to demonstrate by medical means, an injury of some substance, and then explore the functional, occupational, & practical impact of those injuries. It is also beneficial in some auto accident cases to "personalize the injury" meaning we try to graphically demonstrate the overall impact on the daily life of the injured person.

In auto accident cases, there are of course other inquiries. One major issue is what we call "causation." In simple terms, did the accident cause the medical problems which the Plaintiff alleges. There are proof issues in auto litigation that meaning, that we have to meet what we sometimes call Daubert threshold criteria in order to get our "expert's" testimony & opinion (i.e. our proof ) into evidence There are usually liability issues to deal with (the idea of who is at fault, or apportioning fault among several parties), there are usually insurance issues (coverage, policy limits, underinsured, uninsured, stacking, bad faith, Coots criteria when policy limits are met, etc), and we have to bear in mind that statues control your time limits to file suit should that become necessary.

Attorney Robert Florio and myself generally work together on these type of injury cases. Robert has office space in my building and is of-counsel to myself. Simply put, this means that he and I co-counsel select injury cases. Robert is a former prosecutor who brings a strong litigation background to the playing field. I generally add skills in form of medical and vocational case development. The combination can be very effective. Also, I have two engineering degrees and will sometimes delve into the math & physics of collisions, when necessary.

Below please find some material to raise your awareness to some of the issues in this field. This is not intended as specific legal advice for your own situation. As always, seek your own legal advice before making any decision.

Motor Vehicle Accidents

Motor vehicle and auto accidents are by far the most common source of personal injury claims. Many individuals are injured in car crashes every day, sometimes suffering broken bones, whiplash, or other injury. I handle cases, for example, where during a car crash, the driver's spinal cord was injured. If your accident was caused by another driver's negligence, carelessness, or An auto accident can happen in a few seconds, but result in personal injuries that can leave a lifetime of pain. Common medical ailments include whiplash, spinal injuries, headaches, spinal injuries, amputations, and sometimes death. At the same time an injury is being treated, bills are piling up. Collecting benefits for medical bills and lost wages from insurance companies can be a daunting task for many people. Having an effective personal injury lawyer to help can make a world of difference in the getting the just amount of compensation.

The Louisville car accident lawyer at the Law Office of Michael P. Sullivan with offices in Elizabethtown and Louisville, Kentucky, provide personal injury, car accident, and auto accident claims legal services to clients in Jefferson county, the counties of Oldham, Bullitt, Hardin, Franklin  Floyd, and Clark; the cities of Shelbyville, Shephardsville, Frankfort, and Jeffersontown.