You or a family member may have suffered a recent catastrophic accident and resulting organ damage. If so, you may feel overwhelmed by the physical, emotional, financial, and legal challenges you face.
Laborde Earles Injury Lawyers can relieve you of the legal challenges by taking over your personal injury case. We can also represent you and seek fair compensation that covers your damages and helps you treat your injuries and move forward with your life. You can start today with a free consultation where we can explain how our Lake Charles organ damage lawyer can help with your next steps.
What Are My Recoverable Damages in My Lake Charles Organ Damage Case?
Your damages are the losses you experience from the incident. For example, if you suffered a car crash that resulted in organ damage and medical bills, those are some of your damages. Since your case is especially serious, consult a car accident lawyer in Lake Charles to calculate the full extent of your losses.
Through a catastrophic injury claim or lawsuit, you might be able to recover many physical, emotional, and financial damages, such as:
- Pain and suffering
- Disability/impairment
- Emotional/mental suffering
- Loss of consortium
- Medical bills, including bills for surgeries and rehabilitation therapies
- Lost earnings and work benefits and lost earning capacity
- Property damage (repairs or replacement)
Additional Damages
You and your family could possibly collect additional damages, depending on the situation. A Lake Charles catastrophic injury attorney from our firm can discuss these damages with you in detail.
A judge may award punitive damages if the party that caused the accident or incident was especially negligent. These damages would punish the at-fault party to dissuade them from similar conduct in the future.
If a family member suffered fatal organ damage in Lake Charles, your family could seek wrongful death damages. This compensation could help your family sustain themselves financially and find a sense of closure. Wrongful death damages can include:
- Funeral and burial expenses
- Loss of emotional support,
- Loss of financial support
- Other damages
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ClientWhy Should I Hire a Lake Charles Organ Damage Lawyer for My Case?
There are so many reasons to hire our lawyers for your case. A major reason is that you won’t have to worry about your case, which means you can focus on your recovery and taking care of your family. Also, you won’t have to worry so much about your financial situation, as your lawyer will pursue a payout for you.
Our Lake Charles organ damage attorney will take on each task in your case, including the following:
Determining Your Damages
Your lawyer will determine whether you can claim certain damages, such as wrongful death damages. Additionally, your lawyer could identify compensable damages you might not have considered, such as emotional trauma. Your lawyer will ensure all your damages are listed in your claim or lawsuit.
Assessing the Value of Your Intangible Damages
Many of your damages might be non-financial ones, such as ones that do not have a fixed dollar amount, such as pain and suffering and permanent disability. Your lawyer can use a method to assign a dollar figure to these intangible damages so that you can request fair compensation from the liable party.
Determining Liability in Your Case
You may be convinced that a particular party is liable for your incident and injuries. You might be right, but it might be a different party or multiple parties.
To determine who’s liable in your case, your lawyer will investigate your incident and look for evidence of liability, such as camera footage or data logs.
Proving Liability
Once your lawyer has evidence of liability, your lawyer will prove it by showing how each of the elements of negligence applies to your case. This can be especially difficult for a claimant to do themselves.
Resolving Your Case
There’s a lot to this, especially if your case goes to court. However, your lawyer will do everything they can to recover a fair settlement from the other party’s insurance company to avoid a court proceeding. However, your attorney can take legal action against the liable party if necessary and proceed to trial.
Before going to court, your lawyer can hire experts, like an accident reconstructionist or a medical expert, to corroborate your case.
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Rick Smith | ClientWhy Should I Hire One of Your Lake Charles Personal Injury Lawyers?
Our legal team collectively has more than 350 years of personal injury experience. We have resolved many cases like yours, including those involving car accidents, truck accidents, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death. To date, we have recovered over $200 million for our clients. We work hard for our clients, and we want to do the same for you.
We aim to keep legal representation affordable since you won’t have to pay for service until after your case resolves and unless your attorney recovers a payout for you. This is a contingency fee arrangement. Also, your first consultation with our firm will be free.