LAS VEGAS CATASTROPHIC INJURY ATTORNEY

What is a Catastrophic Injury?

Most people know at least one person who has suffered a severe, life-changing injury. There are more deaths in the United States as a result of injuries than from any other cause. Catastrophic injuries often occur suddenly and unexpectedly, and have a debilitating impact with drastic, long-term effects. Recovery from these types of injuries is often a difficult, ongoing process. Injuries often considered ‘catastrophic’ include:

Brain injuries and serious head trauma: May result in disabilities regarding speech, movement, and cognitive thinking. In some cases, victims may be in long term, unresponsive states.

Spinal cord injuries: May result in permanent changes in body function, including paralysis, paraplegia, which is the loss of feeling in the trunk, legs and pelvic organs, or quadriplegia, in which the arms, hands, trunk, legs and pelvic organs may all be affected.

Third degree burns: Aside from external damage and permanent scarring, damage from third degree burns may affect the bloodstream, major organs and bones, and complications may result in death.

Other injuries that may be considered catastrophic include amputation of limbs, multiple bone fractures, debilitating back or neck problems, as well as damage to internal organs and body function caused by drowning, suffocation, and poisoning.