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Catastrophic injuries often have far-reaching consequences, not only for the individuals directly affected but also for their families and caregivers. Rehabilitation and ongoing medical care are essential to help individuals cope with the physical, emotional, and financial challenges associated with these types of injuries.
Our attorneys ascertain the true worth of your drunk driving accident claim by identifying all your damages. Damages refer to the losses you experienced due to your accident injuries. The law classifies damages as economic and non-economic.
These damages represent easily quantified financial losses, such as medical bills for treatments, surgeries and procedures, hospitalizations, medication, and rehabilitation. If you sustained severe or disabling injuries, your economic damages may also cover future medical needs, modifications to your home, and ongoing care. In addition, we can include your lost income, earnings, and benefits from the accident in your personal injury claim.
Non-economic damages include pain and suffering. Depending on your injuries, you may recover compensation for physical and emotional pain, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, or loss of consortium. These subjective damages require an experienced lawyer to quantify.
We’re not surprised when we see clients who insurance companies offered paltry settlement packages. These profit-oriented businesses do not have your best interests at heart and will not serve as your advocates in this situation. Our attorneys will.
Rather than accepting the insurance company’s initial low offer, our legal team can seek compensation that more accurately reflects the full value of your losses. We understand that insurance companies often minimize or deny your rightful compensation, and we persistently negotiate to achieve a fair settlement.
If the insurance company refuses to cooperate, we can take your case to court and present your claim with conviction. Our team consists of experienced personal injury lawyers who can represent you throughout the legal process and work diligently to build a strong case and present compelling arguments on your behalf.
The elements of a catastrophic personal injury claim or lawsuit depend on the facts. Most personal injury lawsuits are based on negligence, which involves the careless actions or inactions of another.
Each of the personal injury case elements above has to be proven by a preponderance of the evidence. If the personal injury lawsuit involves a recalled defective product and the injury is linked to that product, the case is one of strict liability, meaning the cause is considered proven. If the injury results in death, the personal injury lawsuit becomes a wrongful death case.
It’s important to note that each case is unique, and the types and amounts of compensation can vary. Consulting with a personal injury attorney who handles catastrophic injury claims can help you understand your rights, evaluate the potential value of your claim, and navigate the legal process to seek fair compensation.
Your personal injury attorney must first determine whether you have a valid claim for relief. To have a valid brain injury case, you must have been injured by the negligent, reckless, or intentional act of another, such as a careless doctor or a drunk driver.
If the parties to the brain-related lawsuit do not reach an out-of-court settlement, your McCutcheon & Hamner personal injury attorney will prepare for trial by working with various medical experts and other related witnesses to explain to the court how the defendant’s negligence caused your brain injury.
Medical experts may be used to demonstrate to a jury just how your injuries were caused by the malpractice or negligence of another party. The medical neurological expert may testify about the treatment and rehabilitation that will be needed in the future to help you recover. An economic forecast expert may be used to explain to the jury the financial value of your lost wages and diminished earning capacity as a result of your brain injury or accident.
A personal traumatic brain injury may be legally or medically classified as mild, moderate, or severe. When evaluating brain injury claims, many insurance companies often attempt to classify the brain injury as “mild.” While some injuries are more severe than others, any attempt by an insurance company to downplay the seriousness of a brain injury is unacceptable.
The brain injury attorneys in our Alabama offices are experienced in dealing with insurance companies in these brain injury-related cases and will work to develop a plan that seeks adequate compensation for a brain injury victim. Even when an injury seems minor at first, the victim may develop serious disabilities or personality changes as a result of the injury.
Mild traumatic brain injuries can at times be the most difficult to diagnose and treat. Many of the symptoms of mild and even moderate brain injuries can be subtle and may not be detected by routine medical tests. In some cases, mild brain injuries can remain undiagnosed for several months.
Spinal cord injuries can be one of the most serious types of life-changing injuries caused by accidents, negligence, or intentional wrongdoing. Spinal injuries can be life-threatening as well as drastically alter the quality of one’s life. After a spinal injury or accident, the victim may require costly rehabilitation services, intensive medical care, or expensive medical equipment to regain the ability to function and even perform normal, activities of daily living. When full bodily function cannot be regained, spinal injury victims may experience a loss of income and have to pay for assistive devices and medical supplies like wheelchairs, prescription medications as well as in-home healthcare to get the best quality of life possible for the victim.
When considering the level of life-changing impact that a spinal injury of this kind may have on a victim and his or her family members, it is important to consult an experienced personal injury lawyer who is experienced in the handling of spinal injury cases as soon as it is possible to do so. You may have only a limited time from the spinal incident to file a lawsuit against the at-fault party. Taking legal action immediately can help to preserve your right to just compensation.
A spine injury can be caused by an auto accident, slip and fall, tripping accident, or assault. The spine itself may sustain a blow, or the back may twist or be pulled in an unnatural way. In either case, the vertebrae and/or spinal cord may be stretched, permanently damaged, or severed completely. The spinal cord is part of the central nervous system and has the task of carrying information and commands to and from the brain and the rest of the body. Any spinal area injury to this sensitive area can impair motor control and sensation, leading to severe life-changing consequences such as paraplegia (paralysis of the legs and lower torso) or quadriplegia (paralysis of the legs, arms, and torso).
The spinal cord area has four regions, these regions are known as the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral regions. Injuries that occur higher on the spinal cord (in the cervical or thoracic areas) can often result in the most severe debilitating effects because they can impact a larger region of the body. Depending on the location and extent of the spinal damage, a victim may suffer from partial or total paralysis which can affect part or all of the body.
With any personal injury burn case, it’s difficult to make an accurate prediction as to what any burn injury settlement or verdict will be. Some of the biggest factors can be the severity of the burn injury, the intentions of the person who may have caused the burns, and the extent to which a defendant can pay a settlement. Burn injury cases tend to have a higher settlement value due to the pain and permanent scarring.
Who Can I Hold Responsible for My Burn Injury?
With a personal injury burn accident case, there can be multiple parties that may have had a duty of care.
The Florence burn attorneys at McCutcheon & Hamner will thoroughly investigate your burn accident and injury to determine who should be sued to compensate you for your pain, suffering, and financial losses resulting from your burn injury.
Burn injury lawsuits may require the expert legal testimony of medical doctors, biomedical professionals, and engineers. At McCutcheon & Hamner, we have the needed resources to get qualified expert witnesses and pay for professional visuals that can make their testimony come to life in a courtroom trial.
The personal injury lawyers at McCutcheon & Hamner understand the complex science behind burn injury cases we have successfully used complex, science-based testimony of expert witnesses, in pre-trial motions and during negotiation settlements.
At McCutcheon & Hamner, we recognize the horrible pain and disfigurement resulting from burn injuries and the legal and financial needs of burn survivors and their families.
A traumatic amputation personal injury occurs with the loss of a body part toe, finger, leg or arm) which is caused by a serious personal injury. Some causes of a traumatic amputation injury may include car accidents, construction accidents, factory accidents, farm accidents, other work-related accidents, or injuries involving defective products.
Amputation accident and injury cases may involve an accident, medical malpractice, a defective product, a dog attack, or assault.
Fault is determined by the facts involved in each amputation injury case. If someone is at fault for your amputation personal injury, you have a right to seek compensation from all liable parties involved.
Liable parties in a personal injury case are people and companies that are responsible under the law for your amputation accident or injury.
After your amputation, you may be contacted by insurance companies THAT WILL BE seeking a quick settlement. Insurance companies will never offer you the amount of amputation injury compensation you deserve. Do not talk with these insurance representatives of the potentially liable parties. Anything you say about your case can be used by the insurance company to pay you less than you should get and deserve in your case.
When you have lost a limb, you deserve justice. You won’t get your limb back, the only way you will get the justice and compensation you deserve is to get the most money possible in an amputation personal injury lawsuit against all of the liable parties.
When McCutcheon & Hamner represents amputation victims, we use our own investigation team to gather evidence regarding fault, liability, and damages (the amount you should be compensated for your amputation injury).
In most amputation personal injury cases the insurers or insurance companies of the liable parties are contractually obligated to pay you the compensation agreed to in an amputation personal injury settlement or monies awarded to you by a jury.
