Indianapolis Injury Attorneys

Injuries can happen at any time and can alter your life forever. According to the Indiana State Department of Health Injury Prevention Program; Unintentional (accidental) fatalities comprised 65 percent of all injury-related deaths in Indiana. It doesn’t matter if your injury was caused from a fall, product defect, or motor vehicle accident, you could be entitled to compensation for your injuries, medical bills and lost income, and the subsequent hardships forced upon you. The Indianapolis injury attorneys at Baker and Gilchrist can help you recover the costs and anguish inflicted by someone else’s negligence or carelessness.

Have you been injured and need the help of an Indianapolis attorney? If so, contact our Indianapolis injury attorneys at the law office of Baker and Gilchrist to help you get the compensation you are entitled to.

In a study published by The Injury and Violence Prevention Program of the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH):

More than 10,000 fatalities resulted from injury, which accounted for 6 percent of all deaths in Indiana.

Unintentional injuries were the 5th leading cause of death for all ages and the leading cause for persons aged 1 to 34 years.

The five leading causes of all unintentional injury deaths were motor vehicle traffic (41.5 percent), unspecified (12 percent), falls (12 percent), suffocation (8 percent), and poisonings (7 percent).

Unintentional injuries comprised 84 percent of all injury-related hospital admissions.

The five leading causes of injury-related hospitalizations were falls (46 percent), motor vehicle traffic (16 percent), poisoning (16 percent), struck by/against (4 percent), and other transport (3 percent).

The Indiana State Department of Health also concluded that falls were the leading cause of unintentional injury hospitalizations, composing 55 percent of unintentional injury-related hospitalizations and is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury deaths in Indiana. Other findings by this study concluded that motorcyclists in Indiana were involved in 332 fatalities accounting for nearly eight percent of all fatal crashes during the time of the study. In Indiana, more than 156,000 thousand nonfatal injuries and illnesses were reported in private industry workplaces. Men accounted for 90 percent of the occupational injuries in Indiana.

In another study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) that looked at traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain concluded.

Of the 1.4 million who sustain a TBI each year in the United States:

50,000 die.

235,000 are hospitalized.

1.1 million are treated and released from an emergency rooms.

Common FAQs

When should I contact an attorney?

If you have suffered an injury as a result of the negligence of someone else, such as a doctor, in an automobile collision, or while working at a construction site, among others, you need to speak with an attorney.

What should I look for in an attorney?

You should first determine if the attorney has the experience necessary to provide you with the best legal advice possible for your situation. There is no substitute for experience.

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