Calder & Rowe
Road injury lawyers
Columbus, Ohio · Since 2004 · No fee unless we recover money for you
Calder & Rowe is a road injury firm in Columbus, Ohio. We represent riders, cyclists, people on foot and passengers hurt by careless and drunk drivers, including drivers who fled or had no insurance.
Eight kinds of road crash
A dooring is not a left-turn crash. A rideshare claim is not a hit-and-run. Each one has its own fault story and its own answer to the question that matters most: who pays.
Cyclists
Bicycle accidents
Doorings, right hooks, e-bikes and delivery riders hit mid-shift.
Walkers
Pedestrian accidents
Crosswalk right-of-way, turning drivers and parking lot back-overs.
Passengers
Rideshare accidents
Which policy applies depends on what the driver's app was doing.
Transit
Bus accidents
Hard stops, blind spots, public agencies and video that gets recorded over.
Driver fled
Hit-and-run crashes
No driver to sue does not mean no claim. The path usually runs through your own policy.
Your own policy
Uninsured & underinsured
When the other driver has no insurance, or not enough, your own policy may step in.
Impaired driver
Drunk-driver crashes
The criminal case punishes the driver. Your civil case is what pays your bills.
A person answers, any hour
Crashes happen at night and on weekends. Our intake line is answered 24 hours a day, and a lawyer calls you back, usually the same day.
No fee unless we recover
We work on a contingency fee, written down before we start. If we do not recover money for you, you owe us no fee.
We handle the insurers
Once you hire us, adjusters talk to us, not to you. You focus on getting better. We keep you posted at every step.
Straight talk about your case
We tell you what your claim may be worth and where it is weak. Sometimes the honest answer is that there is no case. We say so.
The people who answer
“Riders get blamed first. Our job is to put the facts in front of the adjuster before that story sets.”
Pick a crash type first.
Case results
We show the cases that went well, the ones that came out modest, and the ones that did not work. You should know all three can happen.
A driver turned left into a gas station across an oncoming rider and said the bike was speeding. The rider broke his wrist and collarbone.
What happened: Video from the gas station showed the rider at a normal speed. The driver's insurer paid its policy limit, and the rider's own underinsured coverage added more.
A man crossed mid-block, away from the corner, and was hit by a driver going over the limit. He broke his leg.
What happened: The case went to trial. The jury found the driver mostly at fault, but held the client 40 percent at fault for crossing where he did. His award was reduced by that share.
A driver was sideswiped on a dark road. No one saw the other car, and no cameras covered that stretch.
What happened: Without a witness or video, the client's policy did not allow the uninsured motorist claim. We explained why, closed the file and charged no fee.
These are invented examples for a sample website. They show the kinds of results a road injury firm might describe. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any other case.
After a crash
In their words
“I called at eleven at night from the ER. A real person answered, and Samir called me back before nine the next morning.”
“They told me early that my hit-and-run claim might not work. It did not, and they never charged me a thing. I trust them for that.”
“Renee knew what my bike was worth, down to the custom seat and the bags. The first offer had left all of that out.”
“My mom was hit in a crosswalk. Thomas came to the hospital and explained everything twice, kindly, to all of us.”
Sample reviews written for this demo. On a real site, reviews would come from real clients with their permission.
Tell us what happened in five short steps, or call the intake line. A free case evaluation costs nothing, and you do not have to hire us afterwards.
No fee unless we recover money for you. Answered 24 hours a day, every day.
