Most injury victims think of a train accident or an airplane crash when we hear the term “catastrophic injury.” But injury or death can happen on a cruise ship or when a car jumps a curb and runs over a pedestrian.
Under California law, according to the legal definitions, individuals who suffered catastrophic injuries confer a right to substantial damages and accident benefits than someone experiencing minor injuries.
The definition of catastrophic injuries includes severe spinal cord injuries, severe injury to the person’s brain, and fractures to the spinal column or skull of the injury victims.
Catastrophic injuries to injury victims result directly from violent traumas in an accident but can also happen indirectly from complications relating to the original injury. You may consider a personal injury lawsuit if this has happened to you, a loved one, or some other injury victims in an accident.
Traumatic Brain Injuries and Other Injuries are Devastating – Contact Ehline Law to Begin a Personal Injury Lawsuit
Some people who sustain a catastrophic injury in a fall, car accident, motorcycle accident, or other severe injuries may experience a decline in their ability to function fully. The negative impact of a catastrophic injury on families cannot be understated. Burn injury victims, in particular, have a hard road to tow.
In addition to any lasting effects, some catastrophic injury victims suffer, the family members also have impacted lives because they witness the struggles and pain of the loved one and must often take on additional tasks, including some long-term caregiving. Additionally, wrongful death laws may also come into play in cases of explosions, which can also cause deafness or make injury victims blind or paralyzed for life.
Victims of a catastrophic injury often require more compensation because there are substantial expenses and losses because of the injury. This includes payments for emergency medical care at the hospital (surgery), lifetime rehabilitative care, income replacement, property replacement, and assistive devices for the home and mobility of your precious loved ones and other injury victims.
These are just a few examples of terrible situations critically injured catastrophic injury victims face. The settlement injury victims deserve is mainly due to you hiring the right lawyer to argue liability and damages on your behalf to the insurance adjuster or self-insured business, for example. Why not call for an appointment to discover you or the rights of other injury victims under your care?
Choose Ehline Law Firm to Assist with Your Catastrophic Injury Claim
Injury victims who suffered a catastrophic injury should seek the California brain injury legal services of Ehline Law Firm. We fight aggressively for your claim and help you get the restitution you require. Our duty to injury victims is to seek maximum damages compensation and find comparative fault.
Please call us at (213) 596-9642 to speak to a lawyer near you. Your quality of life has changed significantly, and we are here to assist. We take the attorney-client relationship seriously and know the emotional distress injury victims may be suffering.
Types of Catastrophic Injuries
- Medical malpractice
- Slip and fall accidents
- Boating accidents
- Car accidents
- Pedestrian-motorist collisions
- Cycling-motorist accidents
- Motorcycle accidents.
What Are Catastrophic Injuries?
The key objective here is to consult medical professionals, reach a consistent, goal, and accurate definition of catastrophic impairment, and determine the qualifications and experience among professionals who assess those injuries to the injury victims. (Some examples of conditions burn injury victims may face include permanent scars, adhesions, etc.)
One of the purposes is to get an appropriate definition to avoid interpretations that arbitrators and courts previously employed.
Some Examples Of Impairments Defined as Catastrophic:
- Severe spinal injury defined by the ASIA (American Spinal Injury Association), including quadriplegia and paraplegia
- Impairment resulting in permanent loss of the ability to walk from a partial or full amputation, burns, crushing of a limb, or another injury
- Permanent loss of the use of both arms (partial impairment is the loss of one arm)
- Blindness and a loss of vision in both the eyes
- Traumatic brain injury as constituted by being in a coma for one week, severe lower or upper disability for six or more months, moderate lower disability after a year of the assessed brain impairment
- A combination of various physical injuries resulted in about 55% whole impairment with symptoms that include fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and chronic pain syndrome injuries.
- A behavioral or mental disorder causes extreme impairment. Some examples include psychotic disorder, depression, or PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress disorder). Psychiatric catastrophic impairment indicates the victim meets various specific criteria, including severely impaired psycho-social independence and functioning with a requirement for mental health care.
- Traumatic brain injuries in children as the most vulnerable injury victims.
For purposes of defining catastrophic impairment injuries, psychiatric and physical impairments cannot combine to determine a whole impairment. On top of that, pain symptoms aren’t quantified as separate impairments or injuries.
The American Spinal Injury Association scale defines a catastrophic impairment with respect to the specific symptoms of the spinal injury (Some examples are quadriplegia or paraplegia). The scale is standard throughout the U.S. and parts of Canada to define catastrophic injuries.
ASIA classifies patients into five different categories, depending on the symptom severity, which ranges from a complete loss of motor and sensory function to normal function as defined prior to the incident causing the injuries to the patient/client.
Where Can the Plaintiff Turn for Help?
If there was a breach of duty with causation of the catastrophic injury, then it’s important to seek the help of a Los Angeles brain injury attorney. Ehline Law Firm has a variety of personal injury attorneys on your side to deal with the insurance company. We will fight on behalf of the plaintiff for pain, suffering damages, and changes in quality of life.
Now is the time to seek medical treatment for your damages. But then you must focus on a lawyer who can promise to get you the compensation you deserve. Our catastrophic injury attorneys have won more than $150 million for our satisfied clients.
Please call us at (213) 596-9642 or try the online consultation form to get quick legal advice from a compassionate and charismatic catastrophic injury law group in Los Angeles.
Do You Need a Lawyer for a Catastrophic Injury Claim?
If you suffered a catastrophic injury or a loved one did, you’re overwhelmed right now by the medical bills, emotional trauma, and everything else. You’re not sure where to begin when submitting claims, dealing with insurance and medical treatment options, and getting the benefits you deserve.
This is why you need a dedicated, compassionate, and aggressive personal injury attorney on your side who has experience with catastrophic injury cases.
Victims of these heinous acts often suffer long-term effects from the accident, including a drawn-out personal injury case fitting with an insurance adjuster to recover compensation.
As a matter of basic personal injury law 101, seeking treatment immediately and taking an ambulance, if possible, is essential.
But many cases our consumer attorneys manage are so serious that lost wages and physical pain management costs will go far into the future over the victim’s life. (Bad car accidents, construction accidents, construction vehicle crashes, and defective products can create permanent disfigurement or wrongful death in an individual case).
You owe it to your family to find out the value of your catastrophic injury claim, and we can help. Contact our office today at (213) 596-9642 for a free consultation over your catastrophic injury claim.
Catastrophic Injury Insurance Complications
Most people believe, for example, that evidence of their catastrophic injury accident is black and white and that the judge is going to see that they’re not at fault and someone else is. However, as a catastrophic injury victim, things aren’t always cut and dry.
The person or entity’s insurance company is likely to try to negate the claim, find a loophole, or other circumstances to deny the catastrophic injury classification to minimize the benefits it must pay surviving families and victims for things like a doctor visit or even the necessity of painful surgeries on the victim’s behalf.
Your life is meaningful, and you need to be able to live it to the best of your ability. Suppose someone injured you so severely to call it catastrophic. In that case, you’ll require an experienced, compassionate attorney on your side to deliver the maximum benefits possible to assist with expenses and recovery concerns.
Our personal injury partners are standing by to take your important phone call. Find out about money for rehabilitation, pain, and suffering before the statute of limitations to sue expires for the survivors to sue.
Filing the Lawsuit
Sometimes, accident insurance benefits are not reasonable enough to cover the loss to your entire family after losing such a valuable, bread-winning family member. The benefit or dollars won’t always warrant settling with the opposing party and their insurance company when they ignore or dismiss your demand letter.
If another’s negligence caused the catastrophic injury, and you are not at fault, you deserve to have full restitution for your loss. Therefore, it’s imperative to sue the party for your ongoing care for things like paralysis, amputations, and other injuries sustained caused by liable parties.
However, it’s complex to determine if it was a catastrophic injury, prove your innocence in the matter, and navigate through the entire process on your own. Furthermore, most cases could take a long time to resolve, making the stakes high because of the significant amounts of money and humiliation involved.
Legal support by a lawyer with recognition from peers and other facets of consumers means you have someone prepared to cover case costs out of pocket as an advancement. Contacting Ehline Law Firm is the first step towards restoring your livelihood and receiving justice on behalf of yourself or the decedent.
Seek Legal Advice for Your Catastrophic Injury
If the victim suffered from a catastrophic injury, they require an experienced lawyer with many years of experience. Contact Ehline Law Firm today to find out if your accident is catastrophic and how to go about getting compensation. Your future depends on it, as well as your life and that of your family. No one wants to suffer severe burns from someone’s negligence, but it happens often.
Your catastrophic injury and future recovery are essential, so please get in touch with us today for a free consultation.
Choose a Personal Injury Lawyer Who’s on the Victim’s Side
A catastrophic injury can include many things, and most victims have trouble performing any gainful work again. If you have pain and suffering from a spinal cord injury, severe burn injuries, or any other catastrophic issue, now is the time to hire a lawyer to deal with insurance companies and get you the economic damages and reimbursement for medical costs that you require.
Ehline Law Firm is the right choice for your catastrophic spinal cord injury and other personal injuries resulting in a loss of function or limb. We are serious about the attorney-client relationship.
Michael Ehline has won various awards, such as the Superlawyers Rising Star Award (2006 to 2015) and the Client Champion Gold Award in 2020. He also has many accolades, such as having interviews with CNN and being in Newsweek Magazine.
Honorable Attorneys
Ehline started as a Marine in the U.S. military and finished with an honorable medical discharge. As a small business owner, he ventured into the legal field. As a paralegal, Michael started his journey in personal injury, criminal defense, and real estate. Working as a law clerk, he focused on law and made it his passion.
He became a lawyer in the California State Bar Law Office Study Program, practiced law, and earned J.D. after he was already a practicing lawyer. Michael lobbied Congress for various code motions on behalf of International Cruise Victims (ICV).
Our Los Angeles catastrophic injury verdicts and settlements are head and shoulders above other personal injury claims attorneys.
Injury Or Wrongful Death?
Your catastrophic injury or wrongful death has severely changed your life, probably for the worst. Once your body starts healing from the damages (which may never happen fully), you are at a loss for what to do or where the blame lies.
Insurance companies are no help to catastrophic injury victims, so our personal injury lawyers are ready to help get compensation for lost wages, physical therapy, third-degree burns, and past or future medical bills spent for the catastrophic injuries caused.
Schedule a Free Consultation With A Permanent Disability Lawyer Today
Catastrophic injuries are a top priority for Ehline Law Firm. When you call our 24-hour attorney hotline, you’ll always talk to reputable, compassionate catastrophic injury lawyers. However, never feel that the lawyers aren’t doing their job fighting to get money for your serious injuries.
This is because they’re aggressive when seeking financial compensation from the at-fault parties. Accident victims know we’ll get them the compensation they deserve in personal injury cases. Injured victims should never fight alone. Contact Ehline Law Firm at (213) 596-9642 for a free case evaluation and risk-free consultation about your catastrophic injury claims. Everything is confidential.