Manhattan Catastrophic Injury Lawyers

Seek Compensation for Different Types of Catastrophic Injuries

Catastrophic injuries can be debilitating and life-altering. What is the Victims who suffer from an accident that results in a severe injury often experience life-threatening side effects, hospitalization, ongoing medical treatment, extensive surgery, rehabilitation, and a long road to recovery. These injuries are costly for victims, inflicting financial, emotional, and physical burdens on them. Individuals who suffer an accident often experience physical pain and a decreased quality of life.

They may lose their livelihood and financial independence, as well as their ability to live independently. Enjoying even simple pleasures can become a struggle for victims of a catastrophic injury. If you are currently suffering, seek help from experienced and dedicated catastrophic injury attorneys in Manhattan. You should not be forced to suffer more than you already have, and you should receive appropriate compensation for your injuries.

What is Considered Catastrophic Injury?

A catastrophic injury is legally defined per 42 USCS § 3796b as an injury that that occurs as a "direct and proximate consequences of which permanently prevent an individual from performing any gainful work." In other words, if your injury due to negligence is permanent and life altering, you may be eligible to file a catastrophic injury claim.

Examples of catastrophic injuries sustained from negligence may include:

• Severe burns
• Chronic pain
• Loss of sensation, including blindness or deafness
• Spinal cord injuries and paralysis
• Brain injuries
• Birth injuries
• Nerve damage and neurological disorders
• Amputation
• Head injuries

What Do Catastrophic Injury Settlements Cover?

Following a catastrophic injury, your lawyer will attempt to get you compensation to help restore you to the quality of life you had prior to your accident. If it is impossible to truly restore your former quality of life, they will seek to recover compensation to help you obtain the best quality of life possible. They will factor in compensation for:

• Physical therapy and ongoing medical treatment
• Adaptive equipment including wheelchairs, ramps, communication devices, adaptive vehicles, etc.
• Ongoing care or a live-in caregiver if necessary
• Pain and suffering, loss of quality of life, loss of consortium (or intimacy with your partner), loss of enjoyment of life

Your life matters, and so does the quality of your life.Our Manhattan lawyers will not rest until we obtain the best possible settlement for you following your accident.

Seek Compensation with Help from Loscalzo & Loscalzo, P.C.

If you or someone you love is suffering from a catastrophic injury, you are legally entitled to financial compensation. Doing so requires that you prove your accident or injuries were the result of another person’s reckless or negligent actions.

An experienced Manhattan catastrophic injury attorney can prepare your case, and help you take legal action to recover restitution for your pain and suffering, medical bills, treatment costs, psychological distress, lost wages, and additional financial hardship.

To schedule a free consultation with one of our catastrophic injury lawyers in Manhattan, please contact Loscalzo & Loscalzo, P.C. at (646) 846-4776.