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Catastrophic injuries are serious, often permanent, and take months or years to heal. If another party’s negligence caused your injury, you may be entitled to significant compensation for medical bills, rehabilitation, lost wages, and living expenses.
Life might not be the same after a serious accident
Catastrophic injuries usually happen suddenly and unexpectedly, and the consequences can be life-altering as they often demand long-term medical support and rehabilitation. A victim of a serious car accident, workplace incident, or fall might have to change careers, stop working, or change their lifestyle.
If another party’s negligence caused the accident that resulted in your catastrophic injury, you might be entitled to significant compensation to help with your medical bills, rehabilitation, lost wages, and living expenses. A catastrophic injury lawyer with Constant Legal Group can be a compassionate legal resource and advocate to help with your case.
Injuries that change everything
Catastrophic injuries cause severe physical trauma and damage to the body and usually need considerable, long-term medical treatment. These injuries can be temporary and take months or years to heal, or they are permanent — in any case, they often have a lifelong impact on a person’s quality of life, with a likely need for ongoing surgeries, painful treatment and rehabilitation, and medical support.
Truck collisions, boating accidents, or workplace slips and falls can lead to a disability or disfigurement and significant medical debt. Traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord trauma, motor function loss, chronic pain, scarring, sensory loss, organ damage, and amputation are all examples of life-altering catastrophic injuries.
What are the different types of catastrophic injuries?
Traumatic Brain Injuries
A violent blow, bump, or jolt to the head can bruise tissue, cause bleeding, and lead to prolonged issues, disability, or death. Falls cause nearly half of TBI hospitalizations.
Spinal Cord Injuries
A blow or cut to the spine can result in permanent loss of sensation and function at or below the injury site. Recovery often requires a full team of specialists and therapists.
Head or Skull Injuries
Among the most common causes of disability and death in adults. Symptoms range from concussions and deep cuts to skull fractures — and may appear later as bleeding or brain damage.
Scarring or Disfigurement
Burns from explosions, chemical or electrical burns, road rash, severe dog bites, and animal attacks can permanently impact a person's appearance.
Third-Degree Burns
A serious wound that burns through all three layers of skin with a high risk of infection. Usually treated with skin grafts; untreated burns can take years to heal.
Lost Limbs / Amputation
The loss of a body part — a finger, toe, arm, or leg — following an accident or injury, sometimes when a person is trapped after a collision with too significant an impact.
What can cause a catastrophic injury?
Car Accidents
More than two million people are injured in car accidents every year. Human error like distracted driving is the number one reason crashes happen.
Trucking Accidents
Rollovers, head-on collisions, t-bones, sideswipes, and jack-knifes can result in organ damage, back strains, and whiplash, among others.
Motorcycle Accidents
High speeds in bad weather, ignoring traffic signals, sudden stops, or tailgating quickly lead to unnecessary accidents.
Construction Accidents
Burns, chemical exposure, knee, ankle, or back injuries, and spinal cord injuries can lead to paraplegia, quadriplegia, or illness from toxic chemicals.
Medical Malpractice
When practitioners fail to meet the standard of care during childbirth, women and babies can experience brain damage, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord trauma.
Defective Products
Products with design, manufacturing, and marketing defects can expose people to harm like explosions, choking hazards, or unstable structures.
Slips and Falls
Slips and falls are common at commercial properties, on the job, and in retail stores, and can result in severe issues like head trauma.
Dog Bites
Aggressive dogs can cause puncture wounds, broken bones, eye injuries, scars, face injuries, and disfigurement to adults and children alike.
Acts of Violence
When a third party injures someone on another's property, the victim may be able to file a lawsuit against the property owner where the criminal injury happened.
The benefits of filing a catastrophic injury lawsuit
Sometimes injury victims cannot get the care they need because the financial aspect of an injury becomes too great to bear. Avoid settling for less — a successful lawsuit can help people:
- Recover financial losses related to medical bills and treatment.
- Gain future financial compensation through a settlement to cover living expenses, lost wages, and medical support.
- Hold a person or company accountable for their negligent actions.
- Avoid accepting a lesser settlement from working directly with an insurance company without legal assistance.
Damages for catastrophic injuries
A catastrophic injury lawsuit can help a person pay off past and future medical expenses and cover lost wages and living expenses so they can adequately care for themselves.
Send demand letters
Written letters explicitly outlining the accident and the compensation the victim is seeking, stating the basis for the requested damages.
Lost Wages
If you have to change careers or can no longer work because of a severe disability or injury, a lawsuit can help you recover lost and future wages.
Property Repairs
When an accident involves both physical injuries and property damage, a victim can sue for repairs to any residential or commercial property.
Punitive Damages
Additional compensation may be available when extreme negligence is involved — for instance, a drunk driver speeding excessively who paralyzes another driver.
Step by Step
How to file a claim for a catastrophic injury
The process may seem daunting, but with the right lawyer by your side, it doesn’t have to be. Here is what you can expect before and after filing.
Consult a catastrophic injury attorney
These cases are complicated — consider a specialized firm with successful results specific to your case type. Constant Legal Group can tell you if you are within the statute of limitations and if your case has merit.
Gather evidence
Evidence is needed to prove the extent of your injuries and damages. Lawyers use medical records, witness testimony, and expert opinions from different fields depending on the accident.
Your attorney files your lawsuit
Using the gathered evidence, your lawyer builds a strong case for compensation, files the lawsuit, and prepares all necessary paperwork to ensure it holds up in court.
The legal process begins
There are fewer surprises with a lawyer representing you — they work with your insurance company and physicians and coordinate with the opposing attorney, among other things.
Fight for fair compensation
The goal is a fair settlement so you can move on with your life. We negotiate with the defense and take your case to trial if necessary, always fighting for the best outcome.
Frequently Asked Questions
Catastrophic Injury Law FAQ
Here are some of the more common questions we receive. If you need answers, we’re here.
How can a catastrophic injury lawyer help?
Catastrophic injuries can be devastating. The team of catastrophic injury lawyers with Constant Legal Group will fight for your rights and a favorable outcome so you can have a brighter financial future. We help you build a strong, compelling case so you have the best chance of securing a fair settlement or verdict for your injuries.
How much do personal injury lawyers charge?
Is there a statute of limitations on filing a catastrophic injury claim?
Catastrophic injury victims usually need to file a claim within two years of sustaining injuries. However, every state is different, and the statute of limitations can range from three to six years. A personal injury lawyer will know your respective state’s specific laws and filing requirements.
Talk to a catastrophic injury lawyer
Our clients often turn to Constant Legal Group when they need a solution for mounting medical bills and a financially better way of living in the future. With a catastrophic injury lawsuit, we can help you recover your losses and gain stability with a fair settlement.
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