Serious Injury & Wrongful Death

Life-changing injuries demand more than routine claims handling.

Companies and insurers begin protecting their interests immediately after the report of an accident. Meanwhile, evidence can disappear, machinery can be altered, electronic data can be overwritten, and memories can dissipate. This means wrongdoers can quickly gain an advantage in their fight to avoid recompensing those they have harmed.

Zernhelt Law represents people and families in select cases involving serious injury, disabling harm, and death. We work to restore what can be restored—and to obtain full compensation for what cannot. We are not deterred by difficult facts. We take on cases where liability is disputed, responsibility is divided among multiple corporate entities, the evidence is technical, and the harm cannot be measured by medical bills alone.

Cases we evaluate include:

  • Defective products and unsafe industrial machinery

  • Workplace injuries caused by third parties

  • Wrongful death

  • Traumatic brain, spinal, neurological, burn, and disfiguring injuries

  • Severe fractures, amputations, and permanent loss of function

  • Serious motor-vehicle accidents

  • Commercial-vehicle and other catastrophic collisions

  • Unsafe property or institutional conditions

  • Select medical-malpractice matters involving profound harm

Serious cases require early and ongoing investigation.

Our investigation works to amass all relevant direct and circumstantial evidence before it is lost. Depending on the case, we preserve machinery, vehicles, electronic data, and accident sites; obtain safety, maintenance, training, and corporate records; reconstruct what occurred; retain engineering, medical, vocational, and economic experts; and, identify every responsible person and entity.

Proving liability is only part of the case. The evidence must also show what the injury has taken—and will keep taking—from the person and family. Therefore, we develop liability and damages evidence together, including future medical needs, lost earning capacity, and changes to daily life.

A selective practice.

Zernhelt Law is not a volume practice. We accept a limited number of matters so that each consequential case receives the investigation, expert development, and attorney attention it requires.