Catastrophic Injury

Catastrophic injuries have lifelong repercussions and leave victims with severe disabilities. Victims of ruthless injuries such as those associated with brain or spinal cord are overwhelmed with medical expenditure and hampered by their disability to earn a living.

In addition to the victim, the family involved suffers great emotional and financial loss and trauma. When a catastrophic injury is incurred due to the negligence and irresponsibility of another person, intentional or not, you are entitled to seek monetary compensation for your loss by filing personal injury claims.

If you or a loved one has suffered a catastrophic or burn injury at the hands of another party’s recklessness, we encourage you to seek legal aid to get past the trying times. Our proficient team of St. Louie injury lawyers is dedicated to defending your rights and those of the catastrophically injured victims.

We help you recover your losses through compensation and accident benefits claims, you are entitled to, such as medical expenses incurred, pain, suffering, mental anguish, lost income, long-term disability coverage and benefits and the cost of rehabilitation.

Decades of experience and countless favorable litigation and verdicts have made our catastrophic injury lawyers the right choice to fight for your rights and win for you a sense of justice and financial security.

Types of Catastrophic Personal Injuries

Traumatic Brain Injury:

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) can range from mild concussions to a lifelong disruption of physical and cognitive abilities. Permanent damage to the brain may result in changes to victim’s thinking and reasoning abilities, sensory processing, communication, and attention span, behavioral abnormalities, such as depression, anxiety, nervousness, and physical disabilities such as seizures, impaired speech, weakness, paralysis or in severe cases, death. The brain is highly susceptible to damage and 1.7 million people in the U.S incur a traumatic brain injury annually.

Victims of destructive motor accidents are the leading sufferers of a TBI. Another diabolical cause of this problem is slip and fall accidents, and young children and elderly are most susceptible to them.

Rehabilitation programs are indispensable for the gradual recovery of the patients. Other accidents that might injure the brain are construction site accidents, sports accidents, home and work place injuries, and physical brawls.

When you suffer a life changing injury at the hands of another party, seeking legal aid is the first step to secure your future. We understand what you’ve been through and wish to recover all your losses incurred emotionally, physically, medically, sustaining rehabilitation costs and a lifelong ebbed earning capacity.

Contact the group of St. Louis injury lawyers for our severe injury attorneys who are dedicated to effectively represent you legally. Our catastrophic injury lawyers are committed to your case, investigating and building evidence to support your claim. A healthy statement proves the guilt of the defendant by negligence, manufacturer fault, malignant intent or recklessness and obtains compensation on your behalf.

Spinal Cord Injury

Another life threatening injury is damage to the spinal cord, in which the connection between the brain and the body is destroyed. The spinal cord is a column of nerves that runs down your back and contains nerves that transmit signals to and from the brain to the rest of the body. Any blow to the spinal cord can affect the part controlled by the damaged area and may result in permanent paralysis. Paralysis can either be contained in the lower region of the body (paraplegia) or include extremities (quadriplegia).

The leading cause of spinal cord injury is a sudden traumatic blow to the spinal cord that fractures, compresses or dislocates the vertebrae. If the damage affects the nerve fibers underlying the spine, it may impair muscles below the site of the injury and consequently the body part associated with that site.

A seemingly small injury to the spine may disrupt breathing, muscular coordination, and bladder control. Spinal cord injury may be sustained in a motor vehicle accident, slip and falls, Sport injury, Medical malpractice, physical brawls or injury at the workplace.

An injury to the spine may result in permanent disability and a diminished earning capacity.  Intensive medical care and rehabilitation is indispensable for the survival of the injured. Please contact our qualified team of St. Louise injury lawyers to litigate claims for damage and help you compensate for your losses such as pain, agony, emotional trauma, medical expenses, lost wages and benefits, rehabilitation costs and lifelong impairment of bodily functions.

Our catastrophic injury lawyers are at your service, waiting to alleviate the burdens your injury has thrust upon you.

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Every year, more than 40,000 Americans are bought to the emergency room because of carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon Monoxide forms as a result of incomplete combustion of fuel, in the absence of oxygen. When fuel burns in an enclosed space, such as oil, wood and gasoline, eventually the oxygen in the room is exhausted and the end product of combustion is carbon monoxide.

Acute exposure to carbon monoxide can have severe repercussions, both physical and neurological, and even death by asphyxiation.

Our blood carries oxygen from the lungs to every cell in the body by the help of hemoglobin. Our cells thrive on oxygen and produce energy by respiration, especially the brain cells. When we inhale carbon monoxide, it reacts with hemoglobin in the blood to form carboxyhemoglobin and displaces oxygen absorbed in the hemoglobin.

This impairs the ability of the blood as a mode of transportation of oxygen. Within seconds of not receiving oxygen, brain cells begin to die, triggering a cascading effect that affects the entire body. Even when the person is removed from the area filled with carbon monoxide, brain damage persists.

Leading causes of carbon monoxide poisoning are automobile exhaust, faulty heating system at work or home, improperly installed fuel heating devices, sitting close to an idle engine or barbecue grill, poor ventilation, blocked chimneys and fuel burning in an enclosed space. Headache, dizziness, nausea, confusion, blurred vision, and seizures are common symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Even exposures to small amounts of carbon monoxide can eventually lead to cardiovascular diseases and destruction of cognitive capabilities.

Proving chronic carbon monoxide poisoning in court is a delicate matter, since the symptoms could be construed for other illnesses, and requires catastrophic injury attorneys who have the pre requisite exposure and knowledge required to develop an effective case for the causes and extent of injury.

The group of St. Louise injury lawyers are a team of experts in litigating even the most challenging carbon monoxide poisoning cases and help you win compensation for your losses by filing claims for medical bills, pain, agony, injury, hampered earning capacity, disabilities and loss wages. If someone you know or love suffered carbon monoxide poisoning because of negligence, recklessness or intent of a third party, by overlooking the installation of proper ventilation system or detecting leakages, our St. Louise injury lawyers would make sure they are liable for their actions in a court of law.

Burn Injury

Thousands of people each day sustain burn injuries at the workplace or home and can range in severity from first degree burns to third degree. Culprits may include chemical, fire, oil or electrical burns and scalding from boiling liquids. In Addition to extreme agony, burn injuries can result in severe lifelong ramifications. Extensive medical bills, long periods of recovery, surgeries, scarring and hefty hospital stays can strip a person of any monetary savings.

If you have suffered from a burn injury due to the negligence of another party, you are entitled to sue for monetary compensation. Burns at workplace can be sustained by coming in to contact with acids or caustic chemicals, touching live wires, oil or gas explosions in the vicinity, cold burns from frost bites or eruption of fire.

If you or a loved one has suffered traumatic burn injury, our St. Louise injury lawyers will perform an in-depth investigation to unearth proof the injury was the result of a harmful product, negligence of the employer or commanding authority to install safety precautions and/or the malicious intent of another and help determine your legal rights.

Wrongful Death

If a person dies due to negligence or legally incriminating actions of another person, the survivors of the deceased or other beneficiaries can file a wrongful death lawsuit against those responsible, in order to obtain monetary compensation.

Many wrongful deaths cases that follow a criminal trial do not necessarily convict the person responsible for the death due to weak evidence to establish their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but rather settle for monetary damages when the victim’s family, in civil action, sues them.

Wrongful death lawsuits were designed to compensate the family for the injury, pain and suffering incurred by the deceased, any expenses brought about prior to death, lost wages of the deceased, lost benefits such as inheritance and insurance and funeral and burial expenses.