Punjabi & Hindi speaking personal injury lawyer in Riverside and the Inland Empire

The insurance adjuster calls within days of a crash. The call is in English, it is friendly, and it is designed to get a recorded statement and a quick, low settlement before you have talked to anyone. If English is your second language, the adjuster knows it, and a fast offer is a great deal easier to accept when nobody has explained the alternative — or when the explanation came through a relative translating your own medical history over speakerphone.

Singh Law HQ is a California personal injury firm whose founding attorney, Saloni Singh, speaks Punjabi and Hindi. Not a firm with a Punjabi-speaking receptionist: the lawyer handling your file is the person you speak to, in your language, from the free first consultation through the settlement. We are based in Riverside and take cases across the state, including the Central Valley communities where much of California’s Punjabi population lives.

Truck drivers: the case we see most

A large share of California’s long-haul drivers are Punjabi, and the routes they run — the 99 and the 5 through the Valley, the 15 over the Cajon Pass, the 10 east through the Inland Empire — are the most dangerous roads in the state. When a driver is hurt in a crash that was someone else’s fault, there are usually two claims, not one: a workers’ compensation claim that pays medical bills and part of the wages, and a personal injury claim against the person or company responsible, which is where pain, full lost earnings, and the future are actually recovered. Owner-operators, who often have no comp coverage at all, have only the second one. Carriers, brokers, and out-of-state insurers know how to slow that claim down; the job is to identify every responsible party — the other driver, another carrier, the shipper who loaded the trailer, a manufacturer of a failed part — and hold each one to its policy. We do this work in Punjabi from the first call.

Car accidents, explained in your language

Most of the people who find this page were hurt in an ordinary car accident: a rear-end on the 91, a left turn across their lane in Fresno, a hit-and-run in Bakersfield. The case is not complicated. The problem is the process, which is conducted entirely in English by people who do it for a living. What the adjuster’s recorded statement is for, why the first offer arrives before the treatment is finished, what a medical lien is, why signing a release ends everything — each of these is a five-minute explanation in the right language and a very expensive misunderstanding in the wrong one. We give the explanation before you sign anything, and we handle the adjuster so you do not have to.

Where we take these cases

The office is in downtown Riverside, and the Inland Empire — Riverside, San Bernardino, Fontana, Moreno Valley, the High Desert — is home ground. We also represent clients across the Central Valley and Northern California, where the Punjabi community is largest and the local choice of Punjabi-speaking injury lawyers is smallest: Fresno, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Yuba City, San Jose. Those cases run by phone, video, and email, with travel for the meetings that need to be in person. California attorneys are licensed statewide; what matters is who you are actually talking to.

How a consultation works in Punjabi or Hindi

You call, or someone calls for you. Saloni speaks with you and, if you want, your family, in the language each of you prefers — Punjabi, Hindi, English, or Spanish. She asks what happened, what treatment you have had, and what the insurance company has said so far, and tells you honestly whether there is a case and what it would involve. Documents that arrive in English are explained in your language before you decide anything about them. There is no charge for any of this, and the contingency agreement means no fee unless money is recovered.

Why this is a lawyer, not a translation service

An interpreter can tell you what the adjuster said. They cannot tell you whether it is true, whether the offer is fair, or what happens to the medical bills if you accept it. Those are legal judgements, and the value of hearing them directly, in your own language, from the person responsible for your case, is the entire point. It is also why families across the Inland Empire and the Valley refer relatives here after their own case is done — the reviews say it in their own words.