A New Iberia maritime amputation injury attorney from Laborde Earles Injury Lawyers can help you pursue compensation for your injuries and losses if you suffered a maritime amputation injury. You could work with maritime injury lawyer on your claim, whether you decide to proceed under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. 30104, or pursue a lawsuit.
What Is an Amputation Injury?
Johns Hopkins Medicine explains that amputation is “the loss or removal of a body part such as a finger, toe, hand, foot, arm or leg.” An amputation could change how you work, interact with others, move, perform everyday functions, and live independently.
Some people assume that once the body part is severed, there is no more pain or discomfort, but that is an incorrect assumption. According to Johns Hopkins, people who have suffered amputation continue to endure pain. Also, the phantom limb phenomenon is real. Emotional trauma is another challenge that amputation patients could face.


