Personal Injury Lawyers in Westlake, OH

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Cases Our Westlake Injury Attorneys Handle:

Kisling, Nestico & Redick has been fighting for injury victims for over 20 years. Our personal injury lawyers assist people like you to get back to the life they knew before a severe accident.

• Car Accidents
• Motorcycle Accidents
• Truck Accidents
• Pedestrian Accidents
• Serious Injuries
• Dangerous Drugs
• Class Actions
• Medical Malpractice
• Premises Liability/Slip & Fall
• Work Injuries
• Wrongful Death
• Dog Bites
• Product Liability

Recover from the Harm Done

Personal Injury Damages & Compensation

Typically, the damages you can expect in a personal injury claim or lawsuit depend on:

• The gravity of your injuries
• Your assorted financial losses
• The negative impact on your life
• Your degree of fault
• The parties involved & insurance limits

Our Westlake injury attorneys can better calculate what you may deserve after hearing about the accident and how your injuries impacted your life.

Losses You Can Recover

When you pursue a personal injury claim or lawsuit, the negligent party or their insurer should fully and fairly compensate you for all the ways your life was affected. This can be an agreed-upon personal injury settlement or court award.

You can seek compensation for your:

• Economic losses: medical expenses, lost wages, and employment benefits, reduced earning capacity, and out-of-pocket costs.
• Non-economic losses: pain and suffering, emotional distress, and mental anguish.
• Punitive Damages: monetary punishment for someone’s reckless, malicious, or fraudulent behavior. Punitive damages are not available in every case, and Ohio law limits what you can recover.

Insurance Settlements

While preparing your Westlake personal injury claim for the possibility of trial makes your case more compelling, the reality is that most cases settle. But keep in mind that any settlement offer you receive should cover what you lost and what you will miss out on because of your injury.

Insurers push hard, and many injury victims accept less than they deserve. They may offer you a lowball settlement hoping you take it before talking to a lawyer, try to diminish your injuries, or even suggest you share more of the blame than is appropriate. Your personal injury attorney should know how to counter these tactics and be prepared to fight for your interests.

Hold The Right Party Accountable

Filing a Personal Injury Lawsuit in Westlake

After your free initial consultation, our personal injury lawyers will investigate your accident, gather evidence, and assess your case’s viability. Then, our injury lawyers may either send a demand letter to the insurance company or file a civil lawsuit based on the facts.

Lawsuits vs. Insurance Claims

Large insurance carriers frequently offer less than people need after an injury, especially at first. They may also deny any liability at all. Remember, they are driven by profits and reducing what they pay in claims like yours. Filing a lawsuit may be the best way to recover the maximum compensation possible.

In addition, a lawsuit also grants you access to essential evidence and documents during the discovery phase that you may not get otherwise.

Personal Injury Lawsuit Time Limits

The Ohio statute of limitations for personal injury cases is set by Ohio Revised Code 2305.10. It gives victims two years from the date of the injury to file a lawsuit, with narrow exceptions. If the statute of limitations expires, you may be barred from recovering compensation.

Car Accidents in Westlake

Westlake’s roads carry commuters to Cleveland on I-90 every morning and shoppers to Crocker Park every evening, and the crashes follow that traffic. Detroit Road and Center Ridge Road run the length of the city with dozens of signalized intersections, driveways, and turn lanes where rear-end and left-turn collisions are common. Crocker Road and Columbia Road cross them, connecting the I-90 interchanges to the shopping districts, and the intersections to avoid in Westlake are mostly where those roads meet.

If a driver hit you in Westlake, the claim will usually go through the at-fault driver’s insurer and, if the driver was uninsured or underinsured and you carry UM/UIM coverage, your own policy. The steps are covered in our guide to filing a car accident claim in Cuyahoga County, and the Cleveland car accident statistics show how often these crashes cause injuries across the county. Our Westlake car accident lawyers handle everything from a fender-bender on Hilliard Boulevard to a fatal I-90 crash, and the consultation is free.

Slip and Fall Accidents in Westlake

Crocker Park, the shopping centers along Detroit Road, grocery stores, restaurants, and apartment complexes all owe their visitors a reasonably safe property. When a spill sits on a floor, a stairway railing is loose, or a walkway is left dark, the owner or the company that manages the property can be held responsible for the fall that follows. Winter adds its own hazards. Ohio law generally does not hold an owner liable for a natural accumulation of snow and ice, but it does when the ice was created or made worse by the property itself, such as a downspout that drains across a walkway and refreezes. A plowed pile that melts over the entrance and ices up overnight can also qualify, depending on the facts. Sorting out which kind of ice you fell on is often the whole case.

Slip and fall claims turn on proof: photographs of the hazard before it is cleaned up, an incident report, witness names, and your medical records. Report the fall to the manager on duty, get the report in writing, and see a doctor the same day. Our Cleveland slip and fall lawyers handle premises cases throughout Cuyahoga County, including Westlake, and can tell you quickly whether the property owner is likely to be liable.

Truck Accidents on I-90 and I-480

I-90 through Westlake and I-480 just to the south are two of the main freight routes into Cleveland, and semi-trucks share both with commuter traffic all day. A truck crash is different from a car crash in almost every way that matters to a claim: the injuries are worse, the trucking company’s insurer starts investigating within hours, and the evidence that proves what happened, including the driver’s hours-of-service logs and the truck’s electronic data, is in the company’s hands unless a lawyer moves to preserve it.

Fault in a truck case can extend beyond the driver to the carrier, the company that loaded the trailer, and the shop that maintained the truck. Our Cleveland truck accident lawyers handle crashes on I-90, I-480, and I-71 across the west side, and a preservation demand to the carrier is one of the first steps in a truck case.

Our Westlake Office

Kisling, Nestico & Redick, LLC
24700 Center Ridge Rd, Suite 150
Westlake, OH 44145
Phone: (440) 888-0995

Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so you can reach a real person the night of a crash or over a weekend. Call ahead and we will set a time to meet at the office, or we can start your free consultation by phone or video if traveling is hard right now.

The office is on Center Ridge Road just east of Columbia Road, about two miles east of Crocker Park. From I-90, take the Columbia Road exit and head south to Center Ridge Road; from I-480, take Columbia Road north. Parking is available at the building. Contact our Westlake office for directions.

Communities We Serve From Westlake

Our Westlake office serves the western suburbs of Cleveland and the eastern edge of Lorain County, including:

• Bay Village and Rocky River, along the lakefront to the north and east.
• Avon and Avon Lake, across the county line in Lorain County.
• North Olmsted, Fairview Park, and Olmsted Falls, to the south along I-480.
• Lakewood, between Westlake and downtown Cleveland.
• Berea, near the airport and the I-71 corridor.

Wherever the injury happened, the case is handled by the same team, with the same free consultation and the same no-fee promise: you pay nothing unless we recover compensation for you. If your injuries keep you home, we can meet by phone or video, and cases from anywhere in Cuyahoga or Lorain County can be handled from this office or from our Cleveland office downtown.