Ideally, seeking civil recovery after an accident that was not your fault will help you minimize or eliminate the financial and personal losses caused by that accident. In some situations, though, there is simply no amount of money that can erase the harm caused by a permanent and debilitating injury—and in those scenarios, it can actually be even more important to file civil suit and demand comprehensive compensation from the people at fault for harming you.
However, claims built around catastrophic injuries tend to be challenging even by the standards of personal injury litigation, and trying to handle them without a seasoned attorney’s guidance is risky. Fortunately, the assistance you may need to achieve the best possible outcome from your claim is available from an Inverness catastrophic injury lawyer at LMD Injury Lawyers.
There is no legal distinction made in the Florida Statutes between the procedures for filing suit over a catastrophic injury and those for suing over an injury that will heal completely over time. In both situations, you would have the burden of proving through a preponderance of the evidence that a specific reckless, careless, or illegal act by the defendants named in your claim was the main and direct cause of your injury and that you did not meaningfully contribute to causing your own injury through your own negligence.
However, since permanent injuries like spinal cord trauma, severe brain damage, high-degree burns, and loss of limb invariably have lifelong effects, it is crucial when suing over this type of injury to account for a lifetime’s worth of economic and non-economic damages such as:
Our Inverness catastrophic accident attorneys can provide invaluable assistance in identifying all the losses for which you have grounds to seek restitution and ensuring that your lawsuit or settlement demand accurately values those damages.
We could also help you hold every person who was responsible for causing your life-changing injury financially accountable for that injury’s consequences, which does not always require a finding of direct fault. For example, you can often hold employers vicariously liable for the negligence of one of their employees, even if the employer itself did not do anything negligent to cause your catastrophic injury.
However, state law has stopped using a legal principle known as “joint and several liability,” which allows you to hold one defendant in a claim with multiple defendants 100 percent at fault for damages under certain circumstances. As our lawyers could fully explain, you will need to establish exactly what percentage of fault each defendant in your Inverness catastrophic injury claim holds for your losses in order to recover a proportionate amount of compensation from each one.
Nobody deserves to suffer a permanent loss of bodily function under any circumstances, and certainly not because someone else near them acted in a negligent way. Nevertheless, the latter scenario happens multiple times a day in the state and throughout the country, and people who try to demand financial compensation for these injuries by themselves rarely get all—or sometimes even any—of the money they deserve.
By working with a skilled Inverness catastrophic injury lawyer from our team, you could give yourself the best possible chance of securing a favorable outcome from your lawsuit or settlement demand. Call LMD Injury Lawyers today to set up a consultation.
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