Any accident resulting in an injury can disrupt your personal and professional life for months to come. If your injury is severe enough to be considered “catastrophic,” though, its negative impacts can be expected to last for decades rather than months. These serious injuries may completely change the course of your life and even affect whether you can care for yourself daily.
In California, “catastrophic injuries” refer to those expected to cause permanent and debilitating effects. More specifically, a catastrophic injury substantially reduces the injured person’s physical or cognitive function to the extent that they cannot live the same life they did before getting hurt.
The archetypal example of a catastrophic injury is damage to the spinal cord resulting in permanent paralysis, as this will virtually always affect an injured person’s ability to hold gainful employment, enjoy personal hobbies and pursuits, and generally live life to the fullest. Other examples of injuries that often rise to the level of being “catastrophic” include:
Our skilled Sunnyvale catastrophic injury attorneys could assist with building a strong civil claim around these injuries or any other injury of a similarly severe nature.
Because catastrophic injuries invariably last for a lifetime, any lawsuit built around one must account for all past and future economic and non-economic losses. This means identifying and estimating a fair value for damages that will not fully manifest for years after legal proceedings conclude, such as:
Any accident which results in a life-altering injury will also lead to life-altering financial and personal losses. When someone else’s negligence is to blame for the accident which caused you to sustain this kind of injury, you have a right to demand they pay for all the damages their misconduct causes.
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