Motorcycle Accident Attorney

Motorcycle Personal Injury Lawyer

When warmer weather comes to South Dakota, it is a perfect time to get out your motorcycle from storage and go for a ride. Many bikers join in the movement and attend motorcycle rallies or come together for a cross-country ride. But, with any activity involving the road and a motor vehicle, riding a motorcycle has its risks. Merkle Law Firm in Sioux Falls, South Dakota has expertly handled the claims and lawsuits realized by victims of motorcycle accidents who have suffered personal injuries. Bret Merkle and his law firm team will advocate your side and help you or your loved one through a time of great stress and unease. We can be reached by phone, email and text.

Serious Motorcycle Accidents

People who ride motorcycles are more likely to be seriously wounded in an accident than a driver or passenger in a car. Bikers can also go more easily unseen as they maneuver their way through traffic, which can be dangerous. They are faster to stop compared to a car or truck that weighs more than the motorcycle, quicker to turn and easier to maneuver than a personal or commercial vehicle, and they are fun. But, when the fun ends because someone was injured in a motorcycle accident, it is time to contact Merkle Law Firm. By working with us, we will help you to navigate insurance claims, litigation and provide you with assurance, until you achieve full financial compensation for the injuries that you sustained. Together, we will get you onto the other side.

One of the best decisions you can make in the wake of a motorcycle accident is to call Merkle Law Firm. Bret Merkle of Merkle Law Firm is a Personal Injury Attorney who assists motorcyclists who have suffered a bodily injury in a motorcycle crash. We deal with bodily injury claims and lawsuits. We are happy to go to court for you in order to achieve justice. We are easy to get ahold of, via email, cellphone and text message, and we are here to help you every step of the way. Contact Merkle Law Firm for a Free Case Review.

Post Motorcycle Accident Actions

Being involved in an accident with a vehicle as a motorcyclist can be frightening and damaging to your body and to your personal property, or bike. After a wreck with another vehicle, you should seek medical help immediately. Some victims may walk away more unscathed than others, but Merkle Law Firm suggests that you seek professional medical services whether or not you feel fine. There could be internal damages with which you are unaware until they present themselves later, by which time it might hurt you and your case more than you would have wanted. Your first step, apart from calling the police and allowing for the police officers to investigate the scene of the accident, is to get proper medical attention.

When thrown from a motorcycle or removed from a bike in any way, it is difficult for any victim under these circumstances to acquire valuable information. Valuable information includes insurance information of the driver at-fault, name, address and phone number, photographs of the scene of the accident and your motorcycle, or personal property, injuries inflicted to your body or damages done to your helmet or anything on your person, and gathering contact information of witnesses.

To obtain this valuable information after your accident, you will be helping yourself, your case and the team at Merkle Law Firm to secure your full financial compensation. But, if you cannot, there are other steps that you can take to help your motorcycle accident lawyer. When dealing with professional medical staff, such as doctors, physical and mental therapists and whoever gives you medical treatment for injuries sustained in your accident and lingering injuries thereafter, record and take note of their names, contact information and anything they might prescribe you, such as prescriptive medicine. Hold onto all receipts and medical bills, as well as anything involved from your motorcycle accident and anything having to do with your accident.

As soon as you are capable, call a motorcycle accident lawyer, preferably one who specializes in personal injury, like Merkle Law Firm. A motorcycle accident attorney will help to guide you through every step you need to take to secure full compensation, as well as to navigate the fields of insurance claims, potential lawsuits, adverse insurance agencies and potential adverse lawyers. Bret Merkle from Merkle Law Firm has litigated personal injury cases for over 28 years. He will be able to help you through the processes, through the nitty-gritty and the tougher times. He has reached fair results for his clients consistently. Merkle Law Firm is a personal injury attorney with whom you can bestow your trust.

Compensation for Motorcycle Accident Case

What Amount of Compensation Can I Expect from a Motorcycle Accident Case?
Normally, the injuries sustained by the victim of a motorcycle accident are more severe than the injuries sustained by the victim of an automobile accident. Because the motorcyclist is not seated in a car and can be more easily thrown to the road, injuries from motorcycle accidents can be much worse. Because of the injuries being worse from the victim of a motorcycle crash, financial compensation tends to be higher because of, potentially, multiple surgeries, lengthier periods of recovery in physical or mental therapy, more time away from current employment and thus loss of wages and/or earnings that the victim would be receiving had the accident not taken place, as well as any other life-alterations that may be of consequence of the accident. Serious factors that would allow for greater compensation include, but are not limited to:

• Severity of injuries sustained: Motorcycle accidents can leave victims with life-altering or life-threatening injuries. They can be the cause of disfigurement, amputation, broken bones, road rash, traumatic damage to the spinal cord and/or brain, facial fractures, death etc.
• Cost of medical treatments and services: Ambulance rides to the hospital or trauma center or I.C.U., surgery, physical and/or psychological treatment, prescribed medication and other clinical services and therapies can be costly, yet all of which are vital.
• Loss of income: Losing the capability to perform adequately or effectively at your work, or being rendered incapable of working at all, from personal injuries sustained can consequently decrease the amount of revenue or wages that an employee would be making, had they not suffered the injuries received from a motorcycle accident.
• Emotional and personal diminution: Injuries received in a major motorcycle accident can cause incapacitating and debilitating effects, such as broken bones, paralysis and more. They can be traumatic and scarring, and sometimes more so psychologically scarring. When normalcy and everyday living is suddenly altered in such a way that everything feels upside down, victims of serious accidents can feel burdensome or useless, and emotions can be volatile.
• Enduring physical pain: Motorcycle accidents that are serious can cause victims prolonged experiences of pain, either when active or inactive. Physical pain, however, because it is internal by nature, is harder to prove in a court setting. Long term or enduring physical pain is still very real and can take its toll on the victim. The expertise and skill of a trained personal injury lawyer can help to protect and preserve the evidence necessary to prove these damages.
• Severity of damage to property: Merkle Law Firm can help to maximize your property damage compensation when trained insurance adjusters try to minimize the amount they want to pay for your damaged vehicle or property.

A motorcycle accident can often result in traumatic brain injury (TBI), concussions, back injuries, spinal cord injuries and neck injuries. For other motor vehicle litigation and cases involving wrongful death, worker’s compensation, read more about how we help with claims for motorcycle accidents, hit and run accidents, ATV accidents, bus accidents, car accidents, drunk driving accidents, and semi-truck and 18-wheeler accidents.