After a drunk driving crash, victims have a lot on their minds. For many victims, the immediate trauma and severe injuries caused by the accident are so overwhelming that they won’t even have time to think about anything else. It may be weeks or months before victims and survivors have the time and energy to step back and think about the other consequences of the accident -- the financial strain and radical changes in your life that a severe injury or sudden death in the family has caused.

An accident can wreak havoc on your finances, causing steep medical, repair and funeral bills at a time when victims often cannot work to earn the money they need to pay them. Even if you’re fully insured, the chances are good that unexpected hospital bills and other expenses are eating into your family’s budget. If you’re not insured, the financial consequences of an accident caused by someone else’s carelessness can be overwhelming. If your auto or health insurance company is not helpful, bureaucratic, or outright denies your claim, it adds more financial worries and an ocean of red tape to your list of problems. And if the victim is no longer able to work, you’ve lost all the income he or she would have been able to produce in the future.

Drunk driving accidents also tear a hole in victims’ personal lives. In an instant, loved ones are suddenly taken away, without a chance to say goodbye. Victims who survive sometimes find themselves radically altered people, dealing with a physical disability or deformity that changes how they live in the world. Survivors and victims both must deal with severe emotional trauma. Through no fault of their own, their lives have been irrevocably altered. Grief, anger, anxiety and depression are all common results.

If the drunk driver survived, you may have had the satisfaction of watching the criminal justice system punish him or her for the irresponsible decision to drive while impaired. But criminal prosecution won’t stop the bills from coming—creditors don’t care whose fault the accident was. And for many people, it also doesn’t satisfy their need to see justice done. If you’ve been victimized by someone who behaved in an irresponsible manner around alcohol, you have the right to take that person to court. That includes a person who knowingly gave alcohol to a very drunk person or a minor who then chose to get behind the wheel.

Anapol Schwartz can help. We have decades of experience in Pennsylvania personal injury and liquor liability law. Our track record shows that we’ve won millions for our intoxicated driving and liquor liability clients—even clients who were involved in single-car accidents. With more than 30 attorneys, we’re able to always be there for you when you have questions or concerns. And we never, ever take a dime in attorneys’ fees until we win your case for you.

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