Charles E. Boyk Law Offices, LLC represents clients with all types of serious and catastrophic injuries, including those resulting from car accident cases, motorcycle accident cases, truck accident cases, slip and fall cases, resort accident cases, medical malpractice cases, food poisoning, carbon monoxide poisoning, and other types of personal injury cases. The types of injuries are wide-ranging, and many clients have more than one serious injury, which makes it imperative that they seek the counsel of a Toledo catastrophic injury lawyer as soon as possible.
Most people don’t know how to get their lives back on track after suffering a catastrophic injury. Our mission is to create individualized plans to get our clients back to health quicker, get the bills paid, and live the lives they want to live.
Head Injury Claims
Toledo catastrophic injury attorneys have considerable experience handling cases involving traumatic brain injuries and closed head injuries.
An attorney must have a complete understanding of the causes of traumatic brain injuries. A traumatic brain injury or closed head injury results when there is either an actual blow to the head or a force that causes an acceleration-deceleration movement of the head. The brain strikes the inside of the skull, causing localized or generalized damage.
It is not necessary for a person to lose consciousness to suffer a brain injury, despite this contention from the most highly compensated insurance company doctors. Closed head injuries occur from a number of possible causes, including car accidents, slip and fall accidents, motorcycle accidents, heavy machinery accidents, and other types of accidents.
Brain injuries can be diagnosed by all types of physicians, including neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, and neurosurgeons. A person can suffer a significant brain injury even though an MRI or CT scan shows normal results.
Symptoms commonly associated with a traumatic brain injury or closed head injury include the following:
- Coma
- Cognitive Impairment
- Language and Speech Impairment
- Memory Loss and Impairment
- Conduct Disorder
- Personality Disorder
- Loss of Concentration
- Loss of Problem-Solving Skills
- Perception Problems
- Sleep Disturbance
- Headaches
- Blurred Vision
- Seizures
Our attorneys understand that these types of injuries can make it difficult for a person to lead a normal life. Brain injuries can cause changes in personality that affect marriages, families, and friendships. Head injury patients are often unable to work and suffer significant impairment in earnings and earning potential. In almost all cases, head injury patients often need expensive attendant care due to their condition. If the injury arose from a car accident, motorcycle accident, truck accident, bicycle accident, or pedestrian accident, there is often a claim that can be filed against the at-fault party’s insurance company.
Factory Injuries in Ohio
Our catastrophic injury attorneys in Toledo handle personal injury claims that result from accidents happening in factories and warehouses.
The types of injuries are wide-ranging, and many clients have more than one serious injury. These include:
- Burn injuries, including from fires and electrocution
- Fractures, herniated disc, and broken bone injuries
- Knee injuries, including torn meniscus and ACL
- Hand, finger, and wrist injuries
- Shoulder injuries, including torn rotator cuffs
If you or someone you know has suffered personal injury due to a factory accident or warehouse accident, contact our team immediately to learn your rights.
Spinal Cord Injuries
Our Toledo attorneys often represent clients who have suffered catastrophic spinal cord injuries. These injuries arise from Ohio car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, as well as from all other types of trauma.
In order to provide the best possible representation and understand the future needs of the client, the attorney must fully understand the causes and treatments for a spinal cord injury.
The Time Limitation for Filing a Catastrophic Injury Claim in Ohio
Every state has a time limit for filing personal injury lawsuits, including those involving catastrophic injuries, and this time constraint is called the statute of limitations. In Ohio, the statute of limitations for claims like yours is a mere two years from the date of the injury-causing accident.
In the aftermath of suffering a catastrophic injury that was caused by another person or entity’s negligence, you’re likely facing mounting medical bills and lost earnings while you struggle to recover as fully as possible. Under challenging conditions like these, two years can easily slip by.
Seek Immediate Medical Attention
The most important first step in the wake of an accident that leaves you injured is seeking immediate medical attention. This is not only the surest means of protecting your health and bolstering your recovery but is also the right thing to do in terms of your catastrophic injury claim.
Early diagnosis and treatment are closely associated with improved health outcomes, which is of primary importance. Pursuing the medical care you need also sends a strong message to the involved insurance company that your injuries are as serious as you claim they are. In the process, you also help establish the extent of your legal damages, which will play an important role when it comes to obtaining the compensation to which you are entitled and helping your Toledo catastrophic injury attorney establish the connection between your injury and the accident.
Reach Out to a Trusted Lawyer Early On
After securing the medical care that you need, it’s time to consult with a Toledo catastrophic injury attorney. Time is of the essence when it comes to medical care and legal representation. The sooner you have professional legal counsel in your corner, the better protected your legal rights and your rightful compensation will be.
Your catastrophic injury lawyer will take the steps necessary to help move your claim effectively and efficiently forward toward an advantageous resolution. While you focus on regaining your health and well-being, you can count on your attorney to take care of the legalities involved, which includes ensuring that you don’t miss your opportunity to file a lawsuit in accordance with the statute of limitations. This is important in the event you’re unable to reach a fair settlement with the involved insurance company.
Compensation for Your Physical, Financial, and Emotional Losses
In a catastrophic injury claim, you can seek compensation for the legal damages you suffered as a result of the other party’s negligence. And while your claim will be specific to you and the circumstances that apply, the legal damages you experience will be addressed in terms of several basic categories.
Medical Costs
Catastrophic injuries, as the name suggests, are associated with immense medical expenses that are likely to be ongoing. To help ensure just compensation, the matter of future healthcare needs, including tests and procedures, must be accurately assessed.
Lost Earnings
A catastrophic injury can keep you off the job for a significant amount of time or even permanently. In other words, the financial losses associated with these injuries can be overwhelming. Further, if your career is intertwined with your identity, which is not uncommon, this category of loss can also have a significant emotional impact.
Physical and Emotional Pain and Suffering
There is also the matter of your suffering to address. This category of loss is more difficult to assign a value to. Common examples of the pain and suffering that those who suffer catastrophic injuries endure include:
- Terrifying accident flashbacks
- Fear of getting back behind the wheel (for victims of traffic accidents)
- Severe mood swings
- Increased anxiety
- Related depression
In the end, the emotional consequences you suffer can surpass all other forms of loss combined and should not be overlooked or downplayed. Your Toledo catastrophic injury attorney will carefully assess all of your losses to ensure any settlement demand or award adequately reflects your needs.
Your Catastrophic Injury Claim
Your catastrophic injury claim will follow its own path forward, but there are several universal steps that you should expect.
Filing the Claim
To begin, your practiced catastrophic injury lawyer in Toledo will compile all the available evidence and use it to build a strong claim on your behalf, which they will file with the involved insurance company. This begins the claim process.
Establishing the Elements of Your Claim
To bring a successful claim on your behalf, your lawyer will establish that each of the following elements applies:
- The at-fault party owed you a duty of care
- The at-fault party breached this responsibility to your safety
- The at-fault party’s negligence was directly responsible for the accident that caused you to suffer legal damages
Proving these elements of negligence is incredibly difficult without the help of skilled legal counsel.
Engaging in Skilled Negotiations
From here, your attorney will engage in skilled negotiations with the insurance company in pursuit of a settlement that addresses your full range of losses. It is important to understand that, while the insurance company is paid to compensate you for your legal damages, it is also in the business of making money, which means it will do what it can to limit your settlement.
Having a seasoned catastrophic injury lawyer on your side can make a serious difference in how your claim is resolved. This can, in turn, make a serious difference in your future.
Call a Toledo Catastrophic Injury Attorney
Reach out to our firm today to connect with a compassionate Toledo catastrophic injury lawyer for help filing a claim to recover for your losses. Having an attorney backing you up can make all the difference in the outcome of your claim, and you will look to them to ably handle helping you get through the legal process smoothly, ensuring you avoid unnecessary errors or delays, gathering evidence, and fiercely advocating on your behalf.
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