Questions about injuries, lawyers and this site

No. Personal Injury Lawyer Carmel is a free attorney referral service and a public law firm directory, not a law firm. Nobody here gives legal advice, takes on clients or sizes up claims.

No. Calling the referral line and sending the request form are free. Participating attorneys pay to receive calls. Any fee for legal work is agreed between you and the attorney you choose to hire.

Intake staff at a participating independent attorney’s office answer the call. You are not talking with this site. The office explains its own terms, and you decide whether to hire the attorney.

No. Directory firms are listed free from public sources, do not pay for their listing, are not affiliated with this site and are not the attorneys on the referral line. To reach one, call the firm’s own office line in its listing.

Participating attorneys pay a flat fee per call. The site never takes a share of any attorney’s fees or of any recovery. See the advertising disclosure.

Referral line calls may be recorded. The privacy policy explains how call records are used.

No. Using this site, calling or sending the form does not create an attorney-client relationship with anyone. That only begins if you and an attorney agree to it.

In general, Indiana law allows two years to file a personal injury lawsuit. The deadline can be shorter or different in some cases: claims against a city, county or the state, injured children and medical claims. A licensed Indiana attorney can say which deadline applies.

Indiana law generally requires a written notice within a much shorter time: 180 days for a city, town or county and 270 days for the state. Talk with a licensed Indiana attorney quickly.

Indiana generally follows modified comparative fault. If you are found 51% or more at fault, you generally cannot recover. If you are 50% or less at fault, any recovery is generally reduced by your share.

Stop, help injured people as police, medics or a 911 operator direct, give your name, address and vehicle registration number to the others involved and show your driver’s license. If anyone is hurt, notify police as soon as possible. If you hit an unattended car or property, find the owner or contact police.

Police crash reports are public records in Indiana. The Indiana State Police keeps the central repository, and you can usually buy a copy online through BuyCrash.

The Indiana BMV puts the minimum liability insurance at 25/50/25. Newly written Indiana policies must include uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage unless the policyholder rejected it in writing.

No. The dog-bite statute covers people bitten without provocation while acting peaceably in a place where they may be required to be to perform a legal duty, such as mail carriers. For other bites, ask a licensed Indiana attorney.

Yes. A claim against a health care provider generally must be filed within two years after the alleged act, omission or neglect, except that a child under six has until the eighth birthday. Most claims also go to a medical review panel first.

In general, the personal representative of the person who died brings the action, within two years. Different rules can apply when the person who died was a child or an adult with no dependents.

Fees are set by each attorney. A contingency fee agreement must be in writing and signed by the client, and must say how the fee is figured and which costs come out. Ask before you sign.

Generally in the Hamilton Circuit or Superior Courts in Noblesville, at 1 Hamilton County Square. Non-confidential cases can be searched at mycase.in.gov.

The City of Carmel says more than 160, more than any other city in the United States. The Carmel roundabouts page has driving tips from the Indiana BMV and INDOT and what to do after a crash in one.

Send a request through the contact form with the firm’s name and the change. Corrections are checked against the firm’s own website.