WHAT IS A CATASTROPHIC INJURY IN JACKSON, MS?
If you’re not sure exactly what makes a particular injury “catastrophic,” you’re not alone. Since the term “catastrophic injury” can cover a wide variety of injuries to various parts of the body, it’s important to understand the topic as a legal expression first. Basically, a catastrophic injury is typically life-changing in nature, and occurs suddenly and without warning to the victim or survivor. Some catastrophic injuries even have long lasting impacts that may not be immediately apparent to injured victims. Latent, long-lasting after effects are not uncommon for head injuries and other types of catastrophic injuries. Catastrophic injuries often leave behind permanent physical, mental and emotional impairments. A catastrophic injury might involve the spinal cord, paralysis, dismemberment, severe burns or traumatic brain injury.
Characteristics of a Catastrophic Injury
There are two basic themes that are commonly seen with catastrophic injuries. First, the injury was sudden. In most cases, the cause of the injury happened without warning. One minute you’re driving your car home from work. The next minute, you’re waking up in the hospital with a spinal cord injury because of a collision with a tractor trailer. Second, the injury is so severe that it is going to impact the rest of your life. Paralysis, loss of sight or vision and amputation of a limb are just a few different types of catastrophic injury that impact the rest of a victim’s life.
Long term Impact of a Catastrophic Injury
Although there are many different types of catastrophic injury, the primary theme is that they leave lifelong impacts on victims. This isn’t an injury that gets progressively better until you’re whole again. This is an injury that you deal with day in and day out for the rest of your life. In many cases, your family, support system and loved ones deal with it too. Of course, physical therapy, medical treatment and life care plans can greatly improve your quality of life. Hopefully, you’ll begin to feel like yourself again soon, but if you don’t right now, that’s understandable. Catastrophic injuries are nothing to take lightly, and they leave victims and their families with long term consequences.
Life after a Catastrophic Injury
Although catastrophic injuries are often near-fatal in nature, there is life after an injury. The first step in getting your life back on track is speaking with a skilled personal injury lawyer with proven catastrophic injury case experience. Your lawyer can help you to develop a comprehensive life care plan to determine exactly how much compensation you deserve to life a full and productive life, post injury. This in-depth plan will help to determine what kind of medical needs and care you will need for the rest of your life.
Life Care Plans
Surviving a catastrophic injury is likely the biggest obstacle a person can face, but what comes after can be equally, if not more difficult. The importance of a comprehensive life care plan can’t be overstated. A detailed life care plan will include a variety of costs involving the economic damages involved with your specific injury. The plan may include rehabilitation budgets, the cost of years of medical care and the loss of wages among other items. Life care plans are better left to those with experience. A complete life care plan will also include specific costs associated with medical care inflation and the need for a variety of different types of care and treatments over a victim’s lifetime.
Catastrophic Injury Law
If your catastrophic injury was the result of somebody else’s negligent, careless or willful act of misconduct or by a defective or dangerous product, you need to speak with a personal injury lawyer who has catastrophic injury case experience as soon as possible. With legislation changes going on throughout the country, it can be difficult to secure adequate compensation for victims, especially where issues like medical malpractice are involved. You need somebody with experience. Your future depends on it. It’s going to be hard, but the journey starts with a phone call.
You don’t have to go through this alone. Contact the experienced team at Coxwell & Associates, PLLC today for a free case consultation.
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