What is considered a catastrophic injury?
What is considered a catastrophic injury? The American Medical Association defines a catastrophic injury as a serious injury to the spine, the spinal cord, or brain. So you have the official definition, but what does that mean to you? Regardless of the nature of your accident or injury, if your injury is serious enough that you have long-term effects from it, or you’ve experienced a deformity, it is catastrophic for you.
If you are catastrophically injured, you may need experts, such as life care planners to formulate a plan of care for the rest of your life. Someone who can help you to determine how much your medical bills are likely to be in the period of your life and how much medical equipment will be on the period of your life. As experienced Personal Injury attorneys, those are all things that we are experienced in dealing with.
Has your loved one has had a catastrophic injury? You need catastrophic injury lawyer that has experience in dealing with serious injuries and the issues that coincide with those.
Call the Serious Injury Law Group at 1-855 SERIOUS. We have experienced catastrophic injury lawyers who will give you the attention that you deserve.
Attorney Gerald Brooks graduated from the University of Alabama twice — with an undergraduate degree in business in 1998 and with a law degree in 2002. Brooks’ practice focuses solely on personal injury cases, and he has achieved some significant outcomes on behalf of his clients. They include a medical malpractice jury verdict of $3.5 million, a jury verdict of $380,000 in a motor vehicle case, and multiple seven-figure settlements in medical malpractice and trucking cases.