Catastrophic Injury

What is the cost of a serious personal injury?

Attorneys at our New Mexico firm, Branch Law Firm, are cautious when calculating the cost of a serious personal injury, recognizing that every life and every medical condition is unique. What is the cost of a spinal cord injury resulting in paralysis to a young father and his family? What was the value of a boy's ability to throw a football and the cost of the nerve damage he suffered in a surgical accident, or the cost of brain damage to a woman about to finish college? How do you calculate scarring and disfigurement in dollars?

If you would like to discuss a serious personal injury claim with a lawyer please contact our Albuquerque, New Mexico, office for a free consultation.

Evaluating a Serious Personal Injury Takes a Team of Experts

Our lawyers enlist the help of a team of experts when calculating the value of a serious personal injury claim. We call on medical experts to determine what treatment might be necessary later in our client's life. If our client has suffered serious brain damage and will require nursing home care for life our life-care analysts will project the cost of that care based not on the cost-of-living index but based on the disproportionately rapid rise in healthcare costs. We will work with occupational experts and economists to evaluate the loss of potential earnings.

Psychologists and counselors will help us determine the cost of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and other emotional disorders resulting from the injury. We will see that the insurance company representatives and jury consider all of those factors along with the family's loss of support and companionship and the victim's pain and suffering.

As medical malpractice attorneys we are committed to helping our clients recover fair compensation for serious personal injury or wrongful death. Call 1-800-828-4529 or e-mail our Albuquerque, New Mexico, office for a free consultation.