Baton Rouge, Louisiana Personal Injury Attorneys

Locke Meredith, Sean Fagan & Corey Orgeron

1300 Millerville Road Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816 USA

 (225) 304-0515 or (888) 320-6341
 (225) 272-5900

www.lockemeredithlaw.com
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Locke Meredith, Sean Fagan & Corey Orgeron's dedicated legal team is united in considering it an honor and privilege to serve individuals and families in need. We are professional in appearance, approach and performance — but we also bring passion and empathy into each case. Our reputation for integrity, and relationships with quality medical experts and investigators, are additional key assets for our clients.

After an accident, you must focus on physical and emotional recovery. Dealing with other parts of the aftermath — including any battles with insurance companies for the compensation you deserve — simply does not support that recovery. At the law firm of Locke Meredith, Sean Fagan & Corey Orgeron, APLC, we know your ordeal can be overwhelming, and we can help. When someone's negligent or reckless actions change your life, you should not have to take on added financial risk and worry to get the money you deserve.

We have won sizable verdicts and settlements for victims of car accidents, as well as trucking and motorcycle accidents on greater Baton Rouge area roadways. We pursue maximum compensation on behalf of workers injured in our factories and on construction sites, and people hurt or killed offshore on the Mississippi River, Lake Ponchartrain, and the gulf. We hold manufacturers responsible for defective products. Led by widely respected, 20-year attorney Locke Meredith — whom you may know from television's Legal Lines and coverage of our cases in the news — we have handled wrongful death litigation and advocacy for victims of the most severe types of personal injury.

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Practice Areas Description

- Motor Vehicle Accidents

Car, motorcycle and trucking accidents are among the most common causes of serious injuries and tragic fatalities throughout greater Baton Rouge. Our practice has long reflected this reality. Louisiana has some highly specific laws when it comes to driving, auto collisions and liability insurance. For example, a "no pay, no play" statute makes anyone driving without required liability insurance personally responsible for the first $10,000 in injury costs and property damage — whoever was at fault, and whatever the exact circumstances. Factors like this — along with the imposing challenge of dealing with insurance companies focused on minimizing payouts and preserving profits — make it essential to work with a lawyer who knows Louisiana law, understands insurance in-depth, and will pursue all angles.

- Drunk Driving Accidents

A fatal or injury-causing accident that involves drunk or "drugged" driving can be especially difficult to cope with and recover from emotionally. A driver who breaks the law and ignores the safety of others is impossible for many of us to understand or forgive — and yet it happens all too often. If you or a family member has been injured by someone's recklessness in a drunk driving accident, seeing that driver punished may be important to you. Even more important may be obtaining money you need to pay medical expenses and replace lost income, or to help your family carry on after a wrongful death.

- Truck Accidents

We will rigorously investigate your 18-wheeler accident, the truck accident causes and its total impact on you. We can anticipate what may be challenged by an insurance company or ultimately necessary to win for you at trial. Our law firm has the proven ability and resources to battle powerful corporate opponents and win. Among factors we may bring to bear on your case are: violations of federal trucking regulations intended to keep fatigued and unqualified drivers off the road; negligence in driver background screening or maintenance of vehicles; defective and dangerous auto parts; and other factors in your 18-wheeler accident, such as driver error, inattentiveness, speeding or substance abuse.

- Motorcycle Accidents

For obvious reasons, motorcycle collisions with larger vehicles can be especially traumatic, and proper medical diagnosis and treatment sometimes requires patience and diligence. Our firm is a proven resource for people with life-changing injuries that reduce capacity permanently and may require years of recovery time, costly rehabilitation, or even lifelong special care, including: brain damage and brain injuries, spinal, neck and back injuries, amputations, fractures, and severe joint injuries requiring surgery and severe lacerations and abrasions that can cause permanent scarring or require cosmetic surgery.

- Wrongful Death

Our experience extends across many types of catastrophic events caused by someone's negligence or misconduct, from fatal auto wrecks to on-the-job accidents, boating and offshore accidents, medical malpractice and a helicopter crash. We have also achieved positive outcomes when brain damage or a disabling spinal or back injury required lifelong care and rehabilitation. Louisiana law allows the personal representative of a deceased person's estate — generally an immediate family member — to file a wrongful death suit. The main standard for determining compensation is calculation of financial or "pecuniary" damages — including medical and funeral expenses, lost income and support, and loss of a prospective inheritance.

- Toxic Exposure

Our legal team is qualified to assess your legal options after an industrial accident or the diagnosis of an illness you believe is related to chemical exposure you were not properly warned about. Asbestos disease is a widely known example, but we have the resources to pursue many other valid claims, however challenging. Well over 10 years of intensive research and litigation went into our founding attorney Locke Meredith's victory, with co-counsel, over a coalition of the world's largest petroleum products companies, resulting in an $8.2 million jury verdict for a man who sustained lung damage from breathing harmful emissions on a Superfund hazardous waste site in north Baton Rouge.

- Maritime Accidents and Injuries

We are familiar with the range of complex, sometimes intersecting laws that can come into play after a boating or offshore accident — including: state laws governing recreational boating and conduct on our waterways; maritime and admiralty law; and personal injury and disability claims that may be governed by the Jones Act or the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. In many on-the-job accidents occurring at sea, key questions include who caused or contributed to the adverse event and whether or not that party was the victim's "statutory employer." Our attorneys aggressively seek avenues to pursue maximum compensation that truly addresses our clients' needs — often through litigation against a responsible "third party" other than the employer.

- Construction Site Accidents

Although legal action is not the most immediate concern for most people after a serious accident on a construction site or other job site, there are many reasons to act quickly and put a solid lawyer to work for you. After a workplace accident — on a construction site or in a manufacturing plant, for example — the efforts of a proven, resourceful law firm could make a major difference for your future. Settling for what you may receive from workers' compensation or a voluntary insurance payout, without evaluating other legal options, could be a decision you later regret.

- Helicopter Crashes

Are you coping with serious injuries from a helicopter crash? Are you mourning the loss of a family member killed in a fatal crash and seeking answers about what happened and who was responsible? Relatively few personal injury law firms have experience in this complex area. We are one of those few, having led the investigation and filed multiple suits in a helicopter crash case originating in Lafayette. Whether the helicopter crash that impacted your life occurred on the job or in a private endeavor, and whether your involvement was as an injured passenger, pilot, someone on the ground, or the family of a wrongful death victim, we are prepared to discuss your needs with insight and sensitivity.

- Product Liability / Defective Products

Some of the most intensive media coverage of civil litigation centers on dangerous and defective products — and the manufacturers that may have liability for the injuries and illnesses those products have caused. In recent years, prominent multimillion-dollar cases have been initiated over prescription and over-the-counter drugs, defective auto parts, and a range of other products deemed responsible for consumers' deaths and serious illnesses or injuries. Among the product liability matters we consider are those involving: defective industrial equipment, often involving insufficient safety precautions and guards against misuse; and automobile design and component defects, such as undue rollover susceptibility or malfunctioning airbags.

- Social Security Disability

At Locke Meredith, Sean Fagan & Corey Orgeron, APLC, we understand how intimidating and complex the process of applying for Social Security Disability benefits can be. Our Baton Rouge, Louisiana, firm has proven attorneys on hand to look at every angle of your need for support — and we understand your frustration if you feel you've done all that was required to receive government benefits to which you are entitled. The reality is this: a very high percentage of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claims are initially denied, for a variety of reasons. Please contact us if your valid claim has been denied. You may have skipped something on the application, failed to translate your illness or injury in a way that "fits" the listing of impairments, or made another understandable mistake.

- Workers' Compensation

In a wide range of construction site, manufacturing plant and other work environments, numerous companies other than a worker's "statutory employer" may have a major impact on safety and risk factors. We bring this awareness to each discussion with a client who is uncertain whether legal action other than a workers' compensation claim might be appropriate. We strive for what is just and achievable under the law, fully recognizing that money cannot replace the love of a family member lost in a wrongful death or erase the trauma of having been seriously hurt in a work accident.

Attorneys

	Dr. Jur. Sean D Fagan Attorney Accident, Animal Bites, Appellate Practice, Back and Neck Injury, Bad Faith Insurance		Mr. C. Locke Meredith Attorney Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Toxic Torts
	Corey Orgeron Attorney Accident, Animal Bites, Automotive, Back and Neck Injury, Bicycle Accident

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