Catastrophic Injury

• Understanding Catastrophic Injuries: Catastrophic injuries are life-changing, permanent injuries resulting from accidents caused by someone else's negligence or recklessness. These injuries necessitate significant modifications to daily activities, extensive medical care, and often result in substantial medical bills.
• Common Types of Catastrophic Injuries: Catastrophic injuries encompass a range of severe and permanent damages, including amputation injuries, spinal cord injuries, wrongful death, burns, and disfigurement. These injuries can occur in various accidents such as motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, elevator accidents, construction accidents, and bicycle accidents.
• Compensation for Catastrophic Injuries: Victims of catastrophic injuries and their families can pursue compensation through claims and lawsuits against the negligent parties' insurance companies. Compensation may cover medical bills, lost wages, loss of earning capacity, pain and suffering, and other damages resulting from the accident.
• Legal Assistance for Catastrophic Injury Cases: In the event of a catastrophic injury, seeking the guidance of experienced catastrophic injury attorneys in Boston is crucial. These attorneys can help navigate the complexities of the legal process, ensuring that victims receive fair and just compensation for their losses.

The mere thought of sustaining a catastrophic injury is enough to cause anyone to grimace. Yet these types of severe personal injuries do happen to good, decent people each and every day. These accidents happen to innocent people that are the victim of someone else’s negligent or reckless conduct. As a Boston catastrophic injury lawyer, I help those and their family when a serious, permanent injury happens.

A catastrophic injury is a life- changing permanent injury that requires significant modifications of one’s daily activities. These injuries generate usually hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills, and extensive medical treatment. Sometimes multiple surgeries are needed. Almost always a long stay in a rehabilitation hospital is necessary.

If the victim can’t work any longer, then lost wages can, depending on income lost, be in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions.

These injuries usually result in a claim and lawsuit against the responsible party. These lawsuits are for compensation for medical bills, lost wages, loss of earning capacity, pain and suffering, and all other damages for losses occasioned by the accident.

Since these injuries almost always affect the injury victim’s family, frequently these family members file claims for loss of consortium which are claims for the loss of comfort and support brought on by the accident. These claims are generally filed by spouses and children of the victim.

In the event of a wrongful death, an estate is set-up in order for the surviving family members to file a claim and lawsuit on behalf of the decent for the wrongful death.

These claims and lawsuits are paid by the insurance companies that insure the negligent parties that caused the accident. These cases frequently settle by way of mediation, which is an informal settlement conference amongst the parties to the case, as well as a license mediator. Sometimes these cases settle without a trial being necessary, other times if the case does not settle, then a trial in front of a judge and jury is necessary.

Some examples of this type of devastating personal injury are:

• Amputation injuries
• Spinal cord injuries
• Wrongful death
• Burns and disfigurement

These injuries can be brought by some of the following accidents:

• Car accidents
• Truck accidents
• Workplace accidents
• Elevator accidents
• Construction accidents
• Bicycle accidents

When a catastrophic injury strikes from an accident, it is important to have qualified and experienced representations on your side. Call the Earley Law Group Injury Lawyers today. We would be happy to fight for your rights for fair and just compensation.