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Make a Drunk Driver Pay, so You Can Move on with Life

Few things make you angrier than when some thoughtless person gets drunk, gets behind the wheel, and hurts you. They have absolutely no right to disrupt your life like this.

And you absolutely have the right to demand compensation for your losses, bills, pain and suffering—so you can set things right in your life again.

Drunk driving is a serious problem in Ohio.

On any given day, someone makes the bad decision to drink alcohol or take drugs and drive.

Between 2019 and 2024 in Ohio, more than 70,000 accidents involved impaired drivers. Thousands were injured and more than 3,500 people died in those crashes, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. 

If you were seriously injured in a drunk-driving accident, you know it impacts not just your physical health, but your everyday life and psychological state.

Your vehicle may be undrivable, leaving you without essential transportation. You may lose days at work. Your medical bills skyrocket. Your family is traumatized.

In the most horrific situation, a drunk driver’s actions may have caused a family member’s death.

All that loss and pain because someone decided to make a selfish, negligent decision.

At Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal (HNB), we share your anger at people who have reckless disregard for others. Our drunk driving accident lawyers have spent 40 years pursuing impaired drivers on behalf of injured Ohioans just like you.

In fact, we’ve secured more than $500,000,000.00 in awards, benefits and settlements for people with injury claims.

Work with us to fight for the compensation you deserve. We want anyone in Ohio hurt by drunk driving to be able to say, “Helping me, that’s HNB.”

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    How Are Drunk Driving Accidents Handled in Ohio?

    Ohio’s drunk driving laws have changed over the years. It’s now called OVI, for “operating a vehicle while impaired,” capturing not just alcohol impairment but drug and substance impairment, too.

    A lot of people may still call this kind of violation a DUI, for driving under the influence.

    Under Ohio law, a blood-alcohol level of .08 or higher is considered impaired.

    This can be tricky, because the level of alcohol in your blood is influenced by your weight, how much you ate before drinking, even how tired you are.

    It’s also different from alcohol tolerance, which maps your ability to function while intoxicated. Tolerance doesn’t hold up in court if you drink and get behind the wheel. The law is clear: If you’re over the blood-alcohol limit, you’re legally drunk.

    When you’re hit by a drunk driver who injures you or causes the death of a family member, the insurance company for the driver may come to you with a financial offer to settle your claim.

    Don’t take it. Insurance providers have only two goals: to keep costs down and make you go away.

    Instead, get the help of an experienced drunk driving accident lawyer to fight for your needs.

    The HNB drunk driving law firm knows what evidence you need in cases like this. Our lawyers fight hard to make insurance companies pay for the damage and pain their clients cause by driving drunk.

    And you don’t pay an attorney fee until you win payment yourself.

    If you live in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton or anywhere in Ohio, we will review your case for free.

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    How Drunk Driving Impacts Negligence

    Drunk driving injuries can be some of the most severe in a car accident, because the other driver decided to take away their own ability to react quickly and avoid catastrophe.

    Common injuries in drunk driving cases include:

    • Spinal injuries
    • Broken bones
    • Facial fractures
    • Internal bleeding
    • Organ damage
    • Traumatic brain injuries
    • Amputations

    Having a drunk driving accident attorney means you have support as you deal with your injuries and Ohio’s complicated traffic accident laws.

    Ohio’s legal system approaches accidents through “comparative negligence,” in which an investigation determines the percentage of negligence to assign to each driver.

    The other driver has to be at least 50 percent or more negligent in order for you to pursue damages against them.

    A driver found to be OVI will have that comparative negligence percentage stacked against them. Driving drunk increases their failure to meet the duty of care for others that personal injury law requires of all of us when we drive.

    Of course, you can try to avoid drunk drivers by following all the best safety practices of driving defensively, keeping some distance between you and other drivers, taking another route when you see someone driving crazily and more.

    But sometimes a drunk driver behaves so unpredictably there’s not much you can do.

    When you’re hurt, you can seek damages that cover the costs of your recovery and the impacts on your daily life.

    You may be entitled to both economic damages for countable expenses, and non-economic damages for pain, suffering, and other impossible-to-measure ordeals this has put you through.

    When you’re enduring injuries or grieving the loss of a loved one at the hands of a drunk driver, the skilled, tough, compassionate drunk driving accident attorneys at HNB stand up for you.

    From an insurance claim to a court claim, we fight for everything you’re entitled to receive so you can reclaim your life.

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