Operating a motor vehicle is a safety-critical activity. People either need to prioritize making safe choices or run the risk of severe injury or worse. Negligence, which often involves failure to employ adequate caution while driving, is a common contributing factor...
Personal Injury
Determining Proper Injury Compensation
If you’ve suffered a serious injury, you’re likely interested in seeking compensation from the party that is responsible for your harm. After all, if not for their negligence, your injury would not have happened. How can you determine how much compensation you...
Why disfiguring injuries are so expensive for the people affected
Disfiguring injuries happen in all kinds of ways. Fires and chemicals exposure can lead to permanent scarring. Violent assaults and machinery malfunctions can also lead to injuries that permanently alter someone's appearance. Although some people are dismissive of...
2 ways catastrophic injuries affect your home
The medical changes following a catastrophic injury like a spinal cord injury or brain injury are relatively predictable. People understand they will need to undergo emergency trauma care and will require rehabilitative support as well following a serious injury. They...
The main risk when seeking compensation for devastating injuries
If you suffered a devastating injury at work, your life may never be the same. An amputation, spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury could cause hundreds of thousands of dollars in immediate medical bills, followed by lingering care costs for the rest of your...
What are the common causes of lost fingers?
In virtually every vocation the hands and fingers play a pivotal role. In fact, these parts of the body are important for nearly every kind of daily activity. As a result, the consequences of injuries to the fingers can be devastating. The most serious type of finger...
The Cost of Treating Serious Spinal Cord Injuries
A serious spinal cord injury can change your life forever. Many of these injuries require extensive treatment if they’re going to heal to a degree that allows the person to have movement and mobility again. In other cases, this type of recovery isn’t even possible....
3 ways workers can suffer traumatic brain injuries on the job
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) might force someone to take an extended leave of absence from work. People may spend weeks in the hospital or require surgery before they fully recover. In some situations, TBIs create lasting consequences that affect someone's ability...
It’s appropriate to ask for compensation for PTSD
Among the catastrophic injuries you could suffer in an auto accident, one that you have to think about that isn’t as obvious is a serious mental illness called post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD can make it impossible for a person to enjoy their life. They may not...
A Historical Workers’ Compensation Settlement of $13.2 Million Dollars Raises the Bar for Catastrophically Injured Workers in California
Seeking a better life for his family, Rafael Pineda agreed to relocate more than 200 miles from his wife and three children to work on an industrial project in Long Beach, California. On 12/07/17, this 30-year-old iron worker was struck by a car while riding to work...