What Makes Catastrophic Injury Claims Unique?
In terms of the basic legal principles and procedures in play, civil claims built around debilitating injuries are no different from claims built around less severe injuries that will heal completely with time and proper medical care. Regardless of how severe the damage turns out to be, someone is still only legally liable for harm stemming from the accident if they directly caused it to happen in the first place by violating a duty of care they owed the injured person—for example, by committing a traffic violation while driving a car.
Catastrophic injury claims are still tougher to effectively pursue than most other personal injury claims, in large part because of how all-encompassing the losses caused by a catastrophic injury can be. In order to recover fairly for long-term medical bills, lost working ability, and a lifetime of physical and psychological suffering, it may be necessary to collect mountains of documentary evidence and enlist the help of various expert witnesses—both things that our Irvine catastrophic injury attorney could help with.
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