Service Areas

Where Hance & Srinivasan, PLLC handles personal injury and wrongful death cases across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Hance & Srinivasan, PLLC is based in Louisville and represents injured people throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Our reach is statewide because Kentucky law does not stop at a county line.

This page explains where we accept cases, how venue works under Kentucky law, how we handle matters outside the Louisville metropolitan area, and what to expect when you live several hours from our office.

STATEWIDE PRACTICE

We accept personal injury and wrongful death cases from every one of Kentucky’s 120 counties. Serious injury cases are not defined by geography. A catastrophic crash on the Mountain Parkway in Powell County requires the same level of preparation, the same depth of expert investigation, and the same trial readiness as a crash on I-264 in Louisville. We bring the same approach to both.

Kentucky’s court system is unified under the Kentucky Court of Justice, which means the rules of civil procedure, the statutes of limitations, and the substantive law of negligence apply identically in Pikeville, Paducah, and Prospect. Local variations exist in scheduling, docketing practices, and the personalities of the bench and bar, but the law itself travels.

A serious injury in Hazard is not a smaller case because Hazard is a smaller town!

COUNTIES AND REGIONS WE SERVE

Louisville metropolitan area

Jefferson County and the surrounding counties that form the Louisville metropolitan statistical area, including Bullitt, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, Henry, Trimble, and Meade Counties. This is where our office is located and where most of our cases are filed, although not all. The Jefferson Circuit Court, housed at the Judicial Center at 700 West Jefferson Street, is among the busiest civil dockets in the Commonwealth.

Central Kentucky and the Bluegrass region

Fayette County and the surrounding Bluegrass counties, including Woodford, Scott, Jessamine, Clark, Madison, and Bourbon Counties. Cases filed in Lexington are heard at the Robert F. Stephens Circuit Courthouse on North Limestone. Central Kentucky venues include the University of Kentucky medical complex, which generates a steady stream of medical negligence cases, and the interstate corridors that carry the heaviest trucking volume in the state.

Northern Kentucky

Kenton, Boone, Campbell, and Grant Counties, which together form the Cincinnati metropolitan area’s Kentucky bank. Northern Kentucky cases often involve defendants headquartered in Ohio or Indiana, which raises jurisdiction and choice of law questions that benefit from experienced counsel. We work frequently with out of state referring attorneys on these matters.

Western Kentucky

Daviess, McCracken, Henderson, Warren, and Christian Counties, and the surrounding communities stretching from Owensboro through Paducah. Western Kentucky venues include significant industrial employers, river and rail transportation corridors, and commercial agriculture operations, all of which produce distinctive injury patterns.

Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky

Pike, Floyd, Knott, Harlan, Perry, Letcher, Bell, and Whitley Counties, among others. Eastern Kentucky cases frequently involve coal industry legacy issues, mountain road crashes, and access to medical care concerns that change how damages are proven at trial. The geography of eastern Kentucky also means that travel time for depositions, hearings, and trial appearances is significant, which we plan for in every engagement.

South Central Kentucky

Warren, Hardin, Pulaski, Laurel, and the Lake Cumberland region. These counties sit along the I-65 and I-75 corridors and produce a high volume of commercial trucking, recreational boating, and tourism related injury cases.

HOW VENUE WORKS IN KENTUCKY

In most personal injury cases, venue is proper in the county where the injury occurred, where the defendant resides, or where the defendant has its principal place of business. For corporate defendants, additional venue options may apply depending on the nature of the claim.

For clients located outside Louisville, the correct venue for their case is often their home county rather than Jefferson County. We file where the case belongs, not where our office happens to sit.

WORKING WITH CLIENTS OUTSIDE LOUISVILLE

Most of the day to day work on a personal injury case does not require the client to travel to our office. Intake interviews, case updates, document review, and settlement discussions can be handled by phone, video conference, or secure email. When in person meetings are useful, we travel to the client when the client cannot reasonably travel to us.

Depositions, mediations, and court hearings are handled in the venue where the case is filed. That is true whether the case is filed in Louisville, Lexington, Pikeville, or Paducah. The Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure govern where and how these proceedings occur, and those rules apply uniformly across the state.

OUT OF STATE CLIENTS WITH KENTUCKY CASES

If you live in Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Illinois, Virginia, or Missouri, and you were injured inside Kentucky, your case is a Kentucky case. The Kentucky statute of limitations applies. Kentucky substantive law determines liability. The Kentucky court system determines how the case proceeds. None of that changes because you live across a state line.

Attorneys licensed in other states cannot file a Kentucky lawsuit or give Kentucky specific legal advice without associating with Kentucky counsel, and cannot appear in a Kentucky court without pro hac vice admission under Kentucky Supreme Court Rule 3.030(2). We regularly serve as Kentucky counsel for out of state attorneys and their clients in these situations. Additional detail on that process is available on our Attorney Referrals page.

WHAT DOES NOT CHANGE BASED ON LOCATION

The Kentucky statute of limitations does not adjust for a client’s distance from our office. The one year general personal injury deadline under KRS 413.140(1)(a), the two year motor vehicle deadline under KRS 304.39-230, and the other Kentucky deadlines apply identically across the Commonwealth. Waiting to call because the case happened on the other side of the state is never a strategy that improves the outcome.

The quality of representation does not adjust either. We bring the same level of preparation, the same willingness to try the case, and the same attention to detail to every matter we accept, regardless of where the injury occurred. If a case is worth our time, the location of the client is not a reason it gets less of our time.

Distance is a scheduling question, not a case question.