Valparaiso is the Porter County seat, and its courthouse on Lincolnway is where Porter County injury cases are filed. Our Merrillville office is twenty minutes west on U.S. 30, and one of our attorneys practices from Valparaiso. Our Merrillville office is at 8002 Utah Street, Merrillville, IN 46410, and you can reach it at (219) 472-8391. If you cannot come to us, we will come to you, including hospital and home visits for seriously injured clients.
U.S. 30 through Valparaiso, State Road 49 north to the Dunes and the Toll Road, and the rural two-lanes toward Kouts and Hebron account for most of the serious crashes we see from Porter County. Valparaiso University, the downtown restaurant district, and the big-box corridor along U.S. 30 produce the slip, trip, and parking-lot cases. Porter County juries are different from Lake County juries, and we prepare cases for the courtroom they will actually be tried in.
Where Valparaiso cases are filed: Porter Superior Court at the Porter County Courthouse in downtown Valparaiso.
Hospitals we work with for Valparaiso clients: Northwest Health Porter (Valparaiso), Franciscan Health Michigan City. We request records and bills directly so you are not chasing them.
Car, truck, and motorcycle crashes; pedestrian and bicycle collisions; slip and fall and premises liability; dog bites; wrongful death; catastrophic injuries including traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury; and uninsured and underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) claims against your own insurer.
Our demand packages are litigation-grade: a full medical chronology, a causation analysis that confronts the gaps and pre-existing conditions the adjuster will raise, and a damages model that separates medical specials, lost wages, and future care from pain and suffering. Adjusters value cases higher when the file in front of them is ready for a courtroom.
Health insurers, Medicare, Medicaid, and hospitals often assert liens against a settlement. We identify every lien, audit it for errors, and negotiate reductions so that the money you receive at the end is as large as possible.
Most injury claims must be filed within two years of the date of injury (Ind. Code § 34-11-2-4). If a city, county, or state agency is involved, a tort claim notice may be required within 180 days. The sooner you call, the more evidence we can preserve.
A Chicago-area native who worked in telecommunications and held two jobs to support his family before law school, Jason founded the firm in 2010 on a no-nonsense, plain-spoken approach to solving clients’ problems.
Admitted to the Indiana bar at 24, the youngest licensed attorney in the state at the time, Miguel pairs that early start with more than fifteen years helping Northwest Indiana families through injury claims and bankruptcy.
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Most Valparaiso injury cases are filed in Porter Superior Court at the Porter County Courthouse in downtown Valparaiso. Our attorneys appear there regularly and know the local judges, the mediators, and the defense firms the insurers hire.
Most personal injury cases settle before trial. But insurers pay more to firms that are prepared to try the case, and we are.
It depends on your medical treatment, lost income, the permanence of the injury, available insurance, and fault. We will give you an honest assessment after reviewing your records, not a number designed to get you to sign.
Five minutes on the phone and you will know where you stand. You will not owe us a fee unless we recover money for you, and the bills get handled before the check does.