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A wreck with a driver who carries no insurance, or not enough of it, can leave you covering someone else’s mistake. The repairs pile up, the medical bills keep arriving, and the person who caused the crash has nothing to offer toward what you’re owed. When you are not sure what happens next, a Maurepas personal injury lawyer can help.
Andre P. Gauthier has been licensed in Louisiana since 1992. Together with Lee “Jody” Amedee III, the firm brings more than 50 years of combined experience to auto accident claims out of its Gonzales and Baton Rouge offices.
A Maurepas uninsured motorist accident lawyer at Gauthier Amedee Injury Lawyers can help you look at your own policy for the coverage Louisiana requires insurers to offer every driver. Reach out today to find out what your own policy may owe you.
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Louisiana does not force every driver to carry uninsured motorist coverage, but it does require every insurer to offer it with each policy sold. Unless you signed a form rejecting it, your own policy almost certainly includes coverage that pays when the other driver has no insurance, or not enough (La. R.S. 22:1295).
Without it, who pays for your surgery, your lost wages, or your totaled car? In many of these wrecks, the only real source of money is your own policy, and that holds true whether you were driving, riding as a passenger, walking, or riding a motorcycle.
We help people hurt on Louisiana Highway 22, on Interstate 10 near Maurepas, and on the back roads around Lake Maurepas. We help them pursue the money an at-fault driver can’t pay out of pocket.
Our attorneys handle claims involving:
Each of these claims runs through your own insurance company instead of the other driver’s, and that changes how the case gets built from the very first call you make to your insurer.
Handling a Maurepas uninsured motorist accident claim generally starts with identifying every policy that might apply: yours, a household member’s, and sometimes a vehicle owner’s policy if you were riding as a passenger.
From there, the work shifts to proving the other driver caused the crash and putting a number on your damages, including medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering.
Andre P. Gauthier is an adjunct professor of Advanced Trial Advocacy at Southern University Law Center and a graduate of the Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming. He has carried that training into contested claims against insurers.
Lee “Jody” Amedee III has served as faculty at Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College since 2015 and spent years as an Assistant District Attorney in the 23rd Judicial District before shifting his focus to injury claims. When an insurer denies a claim or offers far less than a case is worth, that trial background can help move a case forward.
Our attorneys have taken auto accident claims to verdict with results that include a $5 million jury award covered by Lawyers Weekly USA, a $4 million verdict won jointly by Andre P. Gauthier and Lee “Jody” Amedee III and covered by the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, and a $1.2 million auto accident award reported in Louisiana Advocates.
The firm has also secured a seven-figure auto accident jury award covered by Lawyers USA. Each of these cases turned on its own facts, injuries, and insurance coverage. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in your case.
It depends on your policy limits, your medical bills, lost income, and the severity of your injuries. There is no set number, but your own uninsured motorist coverage can pay for losses the at-fault driver can’t.
Probably yes. Louisiana law presumes every auto policy includes uninsured motorist coverage unless you signed a specific form rejecting it or choosing lower limits.
Maurepas sits in Livingston Parish, so most lawsuits over a crash there are filed in the 21st Judicial District Court, located at 20300 Government Blvd. in Livingston.
Under Louisiana law (La. R.S. 9:5629), you generally have two years from the date of the crash to file a lawsuit on an uninsured motorist claim. That time limit keeps running while an insurer reviews your claim. Additionally, hit-and-run and uninsured motorist policies often include shorter notice deadlines, so it pays to act early.
Gauthier Amedee Injury Lawyers offers a free consultation, so there’s no cost to find out where your claim stands before deciding anything.
That’s an underinsured motorist claim, and Louisiana treats it much like an uninsured motorist claim. Your own policy can make up the difference between what the at-fault driver’s insurer pays and what your injuries actually cost you.
An insurance company has no real incentive to pay you more than it has to, even when the claim runs through your own uninsured motorist coverage. Gauthier Amedee Injury Lawyers offers free consultations to people in Maurepas and across Livingston Parish who are dealing with an uninsured or underinsured driver.
Reach out today to talk about your crash and schedule a free consultation.
As your dedicated and trusted Gonzales, LA, personal injury law firm, part of our responsibilities are defending your rights to
fair compensation against the aggressive, strong-arm tactics of insurance companies. We have spent decades fighting against
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