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Catastrophic Injury & Amputation
Some injuries do not resolve, improve, or fade. Amputations, crush injuries, multiple trauma, and permanent loss of a function reorganize a person’s entire life, and the claim has to account for a lifetime rather than a course of treatment. These are also the cases defended hardest, because the exposure is large, and they are frequently settled for a fraction of their value by firms that never did the work of developing the future.
Cases We Handle
- Traumatic amputation of a limb, hand, foot, or digits
- Surgical amputation following crush injury or failed limb salvage
- Crush injuries, degloving, and severe soft tissue loss
- Complex and open fractures requiring multiple surgeries and hardware
- Loss of vision or hearing, including partial and single-side loss
- Loss of an organ and internal injuries requiring resection
- Severe nerve injuries producing permanent loss of function
- Complex regional pain syndrome and chronic intractable pain
- Multiple trauma requiring extended hospitalization and rehabilitation
- Injuries requiring lifelong assistive devices or attendant care
- Reproductive and sexual function loss
- Severe permanent scarring and disfigurement
- Injuries ending a career in a physically demanding trade or profession
- Fatal outcomes following catastrophic injury
We Map the Entire Future Before Naming a Number
These cases are proven by projecting decades forward with credible support.
For an amputation, that means the prosthetic itself and, critically, its replacement every few years for life, along with sockets, liners, and repairs, plus the specialized prosthetics different activities require.
It also means the secondary consequences these injuries reliably produce, including residual limb complications, skin breakdown, overuse injury to the remaining limb, and the joint deterioration that follows altered mechanics.
A life care planner builds that record with the treating physicians, and an economist brings it to present value.
We Prove the Occupational Loss Specifically
General statements about being unable to work are worth very little. We establish what the job actually required, task by task, using employer testimony, industry standards, and wage and overtime history, and then a vocational expert defines what remains realistically available.
For a tradesperson, the loss within that trade is frequently total even though some other employment is theoretically possible. Demonstrating that distinction is where the real value in these claims sits.
We Find the Coverage That Makes the Recovery Meaningful
A catastrophic injury typically exceeds the first policy encountered, so the search for coverage drives strategy from the outset.
We look for commercial and business use, employer involvement, additional and excess layers, coverage arising under contracts, and every potentially responsible party, including manufacturers, property owners, contractors, and public agencies.
Adding one defendant with its own coverage often changes the outcome more than anything argued against the original defendant.
We Present the Human Consequences Without Exaggerating Them
Juries and adjusters respond to concrete detail rather than adjectives.
We develop the specific things that changed, including what a client can no longer do with their children, the tasks at home that now require paid help, the reality of sleep and pain, and the adaptations that make ordinary activity possible.
Family members, coworkers, and friends who watched the change carry this better than any expert, and we prepare them properly.
Do Not Resolve a Case Like This Early
The full picture of a permanent injury takes a year or more to develop, and the first offer arrives long before that.
A settled case cannot be reopened when the prosthetic fails or the revision surgery becomes necessary.
Getting the timing right is part of the representation.
You Deserve a Lawyer Who Is There for You.
Direct communication. Personal attention. Experienced representation. When you choose ARAVANA LAW, you know who is handling your case—and you can reach your lawyer when you need answers.
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