Fishers Brain Injury Lawyer

Are you looking for a brain injury lawyer in Fishers, IN?

At Ward & Ward Personal Injury Lawyers, we provide trusted brain injury counsel for families throughout Fishers.

If someone in your family suffered a brain injury in Fishers, the extent of the trauma may take months to surface. Imaging can read as normal while the person you know is measurably different at home and at work.A Fishers, IN brain injury lawyer from Ward & Ward Personal Injury Lawyers can gather the hospital records, arrange the testing that documents cognitive change, and identify who is responsible for what happened. Two attorneys have built this practice, and between them they have handled Indiana injury claims for more than a century. The first consultation is free.

Brain Injury Lawyer Fishers, IN

The Indiana Trauma Registry has collected more than 500,000 incidents from reporting hospitals since 2008, according to the Indiana Trauma Registry maintained by the state health department. Ascension St. Vincent Fishers is one of the hospitals that reports into it, which means serious head injuries treated in this community enter a statewide record that a claim can later draw on.

Brain injury claims turn on two questions that ordinary injury cases rarely have to answer. The first is causation, because a defense will argue that memory problems, irritability, or headaches came from stress, aging, or something that predated the collision. The second is permanence, since the value of a claim depends on what function returns and what does not. Both questions are answered with medical evidence rather than argument, which is why these files are built around records and testing from the beginning.

Types of Brain Injury Cases We Handle in Fishers

Brain injuries arrive through many different events, and the mechanism shapes the entire claim. A closed head injury from a rear-end collision and an oxygen deprivation injury during delivery require completely different proof. Our attorneys handle the following matters for families.

• Car accidents. Rapid deceleration injures the brain even when the head never strikes anything. Airbag deployment, headrest position, and the direction of impact all matter to the medical analysis, and we collect that detail while the vehicle still exists.
• Truck accidents. The forces involved in a collision with a commercial vehicle produce a higher share of severe and permanent head injuries. These claims also involve carriers with their own investigators on scene quickly.
• Pedestrian accidents. A person on foot absorbs the impact directly and often strikes the pavement afterward, producing injuries at two separate points on the skull. Emergency records from the scene become central evidence.
• Bicycle accidents. A helmet reduces risk without eliminating it, and insurers frequently argue about helmet use in ways Indiana law does not support. We address that argument early rather than at mediation.
• Falls. Falls are a leading cause of head trauma, particularly for older adults and young children. Whether a property owner is responsible turns on what the condition was, how long it existed, and whether anyone had reported it before.
• Spinal cord injuries. Head and neck trauma often occur together, and a claim that treats them separately undervalues both. We handle head and spinal injuries as a single medical picture.
• Birth injuries. Oxygen deprivation during labor and delivery can cause lasting neurological damage. These claims proceed under a different statutory framework than ordinary negligence cases, and the timing rules differ as well.
• Wrongful death. When a head injury proves fatal, the claim belongs to the estate rather than to family members individually. The filing requirements and the categories of recoverable loss both change.

Why Choose Ward & Ward Personal Injury Lawyers as my Brain Injury Lawyer in Fishers, IN?

A Clerkship at the Indiana Supreme Court

Charles P. Ward clerked for Justice Richard M. Givan of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1990 to 1991, the year after his admission to practice. Time spent inside an appellate court changes how a lawyer reads a record, because appellate judges see cases only through what was preserved below. He has practiced for 37 years since, and he served as a state delegate to the Association of Trial Lawyers of America in 1996. Donald W. Ward received the Indiana Bar Foundation Legendary Lawyer Award in 2015 and the Sagamore of the Wabash, the highest civilian honor an Indiana governor confers. Those two records, one made inside an appellate court and one made at trial, are what stand behind our work as a personal injury lawyer in Fishers, IN.

Peer Ratings That Have Held for Decades

Charles P. Ward has appeared on the Super Lawyers list since 2005 and holds an AV Preeminent peer review rating, the highest available through Martindale-Hubbell. Both attorneys have been named Best Lawyers in America. Ward & Ward Personal Injury Lawyers has recovered millions of dollars for injured Hoosiers across the practice. Consultations for brain injury matters are free.

What Is Important To Understand About Brain Injury Cases?

What Are Important Aspects of a Brain Injury Case?

The evidence that decides these cases concerns the difference between how a person functioned before and how they function now, and that difference has to be documented by people who observed it.

• Imaging that reads as normal, which happens routinely with mild traumatic brain injury and does not mean the injury is absent
• Neuropsychological testing, which measures memory, processing speed, and executive function against expected baselines
• Statements from coworkers, teachers, and family who noticed changes the injured person may not recognize
• Employment and school records showing performance before and after the event
• Any gap in treatment, since insurers read a gap as evidence of recovery

Symptoms that surface days or weeks later complicate all of this. Waiting too long to involve counsel means the early record gets built without anyone documenting what mattered, and gathering evidence becomes considerably harder once memories fade.

Damages, Liability, and Compensation for Brain Injury Cases

Liability rests on ordinary negligence law. Someone owed a duty of care, failed to meet it, and that failure caused the injury. What separates brain injury claims is the damages analysis, because the losses extend across a lifetime rather than a recovery period.

1. Emergency treatment, neurosurgery, and hospitalization
2. Rehabilitation, including cognitive, occupational, and speech therapy over years rather than months
3. Lost earnings, and separately the reduction in what a person can earn going forward
4. Attendant care, supervision, and modifications to a home
5. Pain, suffering, and the loss of abilities that made ordinary life possible
6. A spouse’s claim for the loss of companionship and services

Indiana reduces an award by the injured person’s share of fault and bars recovery entirely once that share exceeds half. Claims arising from medical malpractice, including birth-related brain damage, sit outside that framework and follow separate rules.

What Is The Brain Injury Case Timeline?

Indiana gives most injury claims two years from the date of the injury. Claims against a government body carry far shorter written notice requirements, and medical malpractice claims follow their own schedule.

• Records collection from every treating provider, including the emergency department
• Neuropsychological evaluation once the person is medically stable
• A life care plan projecting future treatment and support costs
• Filing, written discovery, and depositions of treating physicians
• Mediation, and trial if the offer does not reflect the projected lifetime need

Settling before the medical situation is clear is the most costly mistake available in these cases. The recovery journey for a moderate or severe injury often runs two years or longer before anyone can say what function is permanent.

What Should You Bring to Your Brain Injury Consultation?

Medical paperwork matters most at this stage. Anything missing can be requested later on your behalf.

• Emergency department records, imaging reports, and any neurology or neurosurgery notes
• Discharge instructions and records from physical, occupational, or speech therapy
• The crash report or incident report, if one exists
• Pay stubs, tax returns, or performance reviews establishing earnings before the injury
• Written notes from family members describing specific changes they have observed

We will review the material during the meeting and explain what additional testing the claim is likely to require. Knowing when to call matters more in these cases than in most, because the useful evidence is generated during treatment rather than afterward.

Reach Out to Ward & Ward Personal Injury Lawyers to Schedule a Consultation

Contact us if a head injury has changed what someone in your family is able to do. The consultation is free. We will identify the deadline that governs your situation, explain what records and testing the claim will need, and tell you what the medical evidence currently supports and what it does not. Appointments are generally available within a few business days.