Catastrophic injuries are injuries that leave permanent damage or injury, changing the victim's life.

If you had an accident and suffered minor injuries, you are still entitled to full compensation if other people's negligence caused your injuries. However, when injuries are severe, termed as "catastrophic," the pain, loss of body function, high medical expenses, and emotional trauma can be overwhelming.

In such situations, the victim should file for a personal injury lawsuit to recover the damages. But it does not guarantee that the legal battle will be smooth or that you will easily be granted your compensation. The parties at fault and the insurance company are always determined to pay the least or no compensation. More so, in such injuries.

At Los Angeles Car Accident Attorney, we are determined to help you get maximum compensation. We have experience in handling all types of catastrophic injuries. We are well versed in the California tort law and of local LA Area court processes. We ensure that our customers get the justice they deserve. Reach out to us for a free consultation if you or your loved ones suffer financially, physically, or emotionally from other individuals' catastrophic injury.

Types of Catastrophic Personal Injuries

Herniated discs, loss of limbs, shattered bones, severely torn muscles, paralysis, and other body parts are major possible personal injuries. The causes of catastrophic injuries are endless. They include:

  • Car accidents
  • Motorcycle accidents
  • Slip and fall accidents
  • Pedestrian accidents
  • Big-rig accidents
  • Boat accidents
  • Injuries caused by dangerous products.
  • Workplace injuries

We will focus on common types of catastrophic accident injuries in Los Angeles.

Burn Injuries

Poor storage of dangerous chemicals and unsafe working conditions can create negligence and cause burn injuries.  Most burn injuries are preventable, but due to a person's or company's negligent actions, they happen. At times, faulty auto parts can also lead to severe burns causing permanent burns.

Third-degree burns can damage a large area in the victim's body. It could happen on any part of the body as no body part is free from receiving severe burns. Severe burn injuries can cause various problems. Some of this include:

  • Agonizing body pains initially and later on.
  • Dangerous infections
  • Internal organs failure
  • Restrictions on using limbs
  • Nerve damage and disfiguring scars
  • Reconstructive surgery to correct disfigurement/ painful skin grafting may be necessary ( the process is expensive).

Severe burns incur very high medical expenses, some procedures cost thousands of dollars, and the initial pay is also very expensive. Complications may also appear later since complications caused by severe burns take years to become clear.

Suppose you or your loved one have suffered a severe burn injury due to another person's negligence and recklessness. In that case, you are entitled to a maximum compensation to help you cater for ongoing medical treatments and psychiatric expenses. Depending on how severe your injuries are, you may face a long term disability.

Always contact an experienced attorney as soon as possible. At Los Angeles car Attorney, we make sure that our clients are compensated to the maximum, and we will offer our oral support because we understand the depth of your scars. Book a free consultation with us, and we will guide you through the whole process.

Brain Injuries

Brain damages can be traumatic or acquired.

Traumatic brain injury — It is a brain injury caused by external forces, such as being hit on the head. Some of the major causes of traumatic brain injury.

  • Car accident
  • Sports injuries
  • Falls
  • Assaults
  • Being struck by an object
  • Being struck against an object

The effects of traumatic brain injury can be intense and hurtful to the victim and family members. Some serious brain damage can leave a victim in a state of dependence. Depending on the extent of brain damage, most people who suffer traumatic brain injury must be rehabilitated for a long time to recover and gain independence. Severe brain injuries may deny the victims the ability to earn a living and live a social life.

Acquired brain injury — It is a brain injury that occurs after birth. Acquired brain injuries are not hereditary, degenerative, congenital, or birth trauma-related. At times, they can be associated with insufficient oxygen or blood flow to the brain. Some of these injuries include:

  • Stroke
  • Aneurysm
  • Tumor
  • Near drowning
  • Meningitis
  • Hydrocephalus

If a hard surface violently hits your head, there are possible ways to result in a catastrophic brain injury:

  • The hard ridges of the skull and the brain collide.
  • The skull bones fracture

In both ways, the blood vessels may burst to make the blood flood in areas of the brain where it is nor supposed to be.  Due to this bleeding, heart function can be affected and breathing and more depending on the damaged brain's parts. Areas of your brain can tear from the force.

If you suffer brain injury because of someone's fault, contact our experienced attorneys, and do our best to help you get compensated.

Spinal Cord Injuries

Spinal cord injuries are serious injuries with long term, life-changing consequences. Spinal cord injuries could result from spine trauma causing cord compression or fractures, compresses, crushes, or dislocation of vertebrae by spinal masses like hematomas, tumors, epidural abscesses, hemangiomas, or wounds that alter the spinal cord.

The major causes of spinal cord injuries include:

  • Falls
  • Car accidents
  • Sport injuries
  • Act of violence

Other than the disability caused by spinal cord injury, the difficult part of having such an injury is knowing that your damaged central nerves can never repair themselves. Some victims experience temporary paralysis. The nature of the injury will determine whether you will ever recover rather than the treatments' nature. For this kind of damage, it is hard to find a cure.

Damage to the spine blocks the brain's feeling and communication and other parts of the body since the spine is the major component of the body's central nervous system. It can also lead to other body problems like:

  • Heart problem
  • Digestive system problems
  • Urinary tract infection
  • Psychological disorder
  • Respiratory problems

Most spinal cord injury victims are permanently or temporarily paralyzed. To some, it ends their career and puts them in a wheelchair or bedridden, which makes it hard to fight depression and live a normal and social life. However, there are technological advancements that help people with disabilities live an active life.

Our Los Angeles attorney will help you recover fair compensation if yourself or your loved one has suffered such damages at someone's expense.

Brachial Plexus

It means having damaged arms, chest area, and shoulders. The signals from your spine to the upper part of your body are affected, making it more similar to spinal cord injury. Still, it is classified as a catastrophic injury in itself.

When the upper body nerves are moved out of place, torn, pressed, and stretched, they can be severely injured, causing excessive pains.  Brachial Plexus can be caused by:

  • Birth
  • Tumors
  • Inflammations
  • Radiation treatments
  • Car accident injuries

At times, the victim's hand becomes paralyzed. Additional symptoms include:

  • Joints stiffness
  • Severe pain on your neck
  • Weak muscles on your arms, arms, or shoulders

Most victims recover from the injury, but some end up with a permanent disability. Arms and shoulders nerves regrow slowly, and muscles can worsen due to lack of use during the healing process. Some procedures like nerve or muscle grafts can help though the procedures are painful and expensive.

If you are looking forward to acquiring justice and getting fully compensated, contact our experienced attorneys.

Post-traumatic Visual Loss

People who have suffered major traumas can also lose their vision. It can be permanent, temporary, or partial. In most cases, post-traumatic visual loss happens when you are unconscious; however, it can also occur when in a conscious state.

Vision loss mostly happens because of serious head trauma. Due to excessive pain, victims do not notice any changes in their vision unless questioned and tested. The testing is done through an eye exam that observes the eyes' external appearance and its movements.

There are several symptoms of post-traumatic loss which include:

  • Extreme sensitivity to light
  • Blurry vision
  • Reading difficulty
  • Memory lapse
  • Aching eye
  • Severe headaches
  • Low attention span
  • Seeing people/thing in double
  • Unable to make normal eye movements.

There are several non-surgical ways to treat post-traumatic vision loss. They include:

  • Eye rehab therapy
  • Light therapy
  • Use of prime lenses
  • Eye surgery in rare cases

If you need legal help, contact us today. We know how the loss of vision negatively affects your life and disrupts your normal life. We also know how the treatments are costly; that is why we are here to help you. We fully understand the laws in south California courts and local L. A and we know how to apply the laws in your case to help you win.

Car Accident Injuries

In the U.S., thousands of people are injured, and others are killed in traffic accidents. But in most cases, people get injured because of another driver's negligence. Aggressive driving, distractions while driving, driving under drug influence, drowsy driving, and inattentiveness are major causes of car accidents.

If you are injured in a car accident without any fault, contact us today and we will help you attain justice.

Motorcycle Accident Injuries

Motorcyclists are likely to suffer serious injuries in an accident since they lack the enclosed protection of a car. Most motorcycle accidents result from careless car drivers who fail to observe traffic rules and register motorcycle presence. Motorcycle accidents cause severe injuries to the victim. Some of them include:

  • Bone fractures
  • Severe head injuries
  • Chest injuries
  • Abdominal injuries

If you have suffered a fatal motorcycle accident caused by an ignorant driver, book a free consultation with us. Our exp[erienced motorcycle accident attorneys will help you pursue the case and get the compensation you need.

Public Transportation Injuries

Today, public transport is a common means of transportation. Planes, trains, scooters, subways, buses, and ride-sharing are the most common public transportation types. Due to the increasing fuel cost and parking fees, people are opting for efficient ground transportation systems. Due to their large size, public transport vehicles mainly create serious damage when colliding with other smaller vehicles.

It is the responsibility of public vehicles to provide maximum safety standards for the passengers. If a passenger is injured in a public transportation accident, he/she may have legal rights against the liable person, but determining liability is not an easy task. Our lawyers have experience in events reconstruction to determine cause and liability.

Schoolyard Injuries

Schoolyard injuries are very common. More than 200,000 children are treated in emergency rooms for schoolyard injuries in the U.S, in schools, or at the daycare centers.

Most of the schoolyard injuries include Falls, colliding of children, equipment failures on the playground. However, these accidents are preventable with adequate supervision by an adult or proper maintenance of playing objects in the schoolyard.

If your child is injured in a schoolyard accident due to another person's negligence, our exceptional attorney will help you seek justice and compensation for your child.

Amusement Park Injuries

 There are many causes of injuries in amusement parks. Some of them include:

  • Environmental hazards
  • Unsafe equipment
  • Inadequate safety rules on the playground

These injuries mainly happen to children of 14 years and below. This personal injury claim is under the premises liability law.  If your child has suffered this type of injury, our skilled premises liability lawyers will help you and your child get the compensation you deserve.

Cervical Injury

When major cervical injuries happen, most families suffer since it takes time to heal, and short term disabilities cover fewer expenses, which means life savings are drained to cater for all the bills. The main causes of cervical injuries are:

  • Motorcycle accidents — Motorcycle accidents are the main causes of cervical injuries.
  • Premises accidents — They include pool diving accidents, falling ceiling in apartments, ceilings in apartments, and the wet floor falls.
  • A forceful expulsion from a car during a collision can cause severe cervical injuries, leading to paralysis or even death.
  • An unavoidable workplace injury is the injuries that knock the victim down hard enough with great force to seven vertebrae.

Cervical trauma can cause serious mental health problems. However, it can be hard to identify cervical injuries if they are not severe. Some of the symptoms include:

  • strong tingling sensation on the limbs.
  • When limbs cannot be felt
  • Victims can also have slurred speech or unable to speak at all.
  • Difficulty in breathing

Our Los Angeles cervical injury attorney will look at all facts concerning your cervical injury. If it were due to another person's ignorance, we would help you get fully compensated.

Dog Attack Injury

Guarding property, showmanship, competition, seeing-eye, or simply accompaniment are some of the purposes people use dogs. While some people think that beating and four-legged fighting companions will show the dogs that power belongs to the owner but that is not exactly the case. Dogs have unpredictable behavior to their owners. Dog injuries can be avoided by putting prevention first.

Putting Prevention First

Our Los Angeles dog attack injury attorney will help you win your case and spread awareness of taking care of dogs, especially in events when the case involves many people or many dogs owned by one person. Sharing useful dog care information means that people can enjoy a good coexistence between children and dogs. It is also a way of teaching the forthcoming generations how to handle dogs with care. It will also help children to be comfortable around dogs. Dogs' safety is determined by the training and loving dogs like parts of our families.

If dog owners fail to follow canine care procedures, our attorney can sue them for damages caused by dog attacks, or the owners can renounce their rights.

When you are not the cause of a dog biting, you should not bear the consequences on your own. By getting a dog injury attorney, you will be able to get compensated. Dog injuries can cause paralysis; thus, you should not ignore any dog attacks. Get in touch with us, and we will do our best to help you win your case.

Whiplash

Whiplash injuries are injuries that damage the upper back, neck, and at times the brain. Whiplash injuries are mostly caused by rear-end car accidents and cause severe pains. In most cases, rear-end accidents are caused by the driver hitting the car in front. It is termed as the driver's fault since, in safe driving, drivers are supposed to leave enough space to accommodate sudden braking by the driver in front of you. With skilled legal counsel, you are assured of winning a good compensation.

Symptoms of Whiplash

Symptoms appear different for some people. While some feel immediate numbness and pain, others don't develop any symptoms until a few days later after the accident. That is why it is advisable to file a police report and have a full-body medical check-up after the accident, even if you are not in any pain.

While most whiplash cases heal in weeks or months, others take longer and can even cause enfeebling neck pains, chronic, and other severe complications. If you have a whiplash injury, you will likely fracture a herniated disc, vertebra or a damaged muscle, a ligament, or nerve, which may lead to:

  • Dizziness
  • Headaches from the base of the skull
  • Fatigue
  • Severe neck pain
  • Severe upper back pain
  • Pain in the shoulder
  • Arms numbness
  • Worsening pain with neck movement
  • Restricted range of motion in the neck

In severe cases, victims who have suffered a severe whiplash injury are at the risk of suffering a traumatic brain injury, which at times can happen without direct skull impact. Such victims might experience:

  • Tinnitus(ringing in the ear0
  • Difficulty in concentration
  • Depression
  • Blurred vision
  • Sleep disturbances
  • Irritability
  • Confusion
  • Memory problem

The severity of whiplash injury is determined by how fast the cars were moving when the collision happened. If you have suffered a whiplash injury, contact our Los Angeles attorneys and file all the necessary paperwork and deal with all the legal matters. We will do our best to ensure justice is served.

The Impact of Catastrophic Injuries

When catastrophic injuries happen due to an unfortunate accident, the victim's life and that of his/her family members change drastically. The victim can undergo surgeries or continuous medical check-ups, which may lead to huge medical bills. It can be overwhelming, especially if the victim was the breadwinner.

Victims who have suffered catastrophic injuries are denied the freedom to live a social life and experience emotional trauma. Some people find the whole process overwhelming and can cause too much stress leading to broken marriages. While filling a personal injury claim, this type of distress plays a significant factor. Experienced personal injury attorneys best handle non-economic damages.

If your injuries are severe and affect your ability to walk, you should move to a convenient house in a wheelchair. Unique injuries cause special damages. If another person's negligence led to the catastrophic injury, you and your family should not cater for any medical bills; you ought to be compensated by the party at fault. Reach out to our dedicated personal injury attorneys to help you get maximum compensation.

Find a Los Angeles Personal Injury Attorney Near Me

If your family members have suffered a catastrophic accident before, you know how overwhelming the experience is. If another person's fault caused the collision, you are legally entitled to compensation for the damages you sustained.  It could be a reckless driver, your employer, a property owner, or an aggressive dog owner. The liable party should take responsibility for his/her action.

To determine if you are entitled to compensation, you should reach out to experts familiar with California's personal injury. Reach out to the Los Angeles Car Accident Attorney at 424-237-3600. We put our clients first, and we work hard towards achieving fair compensation for car accident victims.