The effects of a catastrophic personal injury can have a devastating impact on the quality of life for injury victims. Physical and emotional pain and suffering can be bad enough but may be compounded by financial stress brought on by long term care needs.
Fortunately for injury victims, the law gives them the right to file personal injury lawsuits against parties whose careless actions caused the injury.
Tort laws seek to make injury victims whole again by allowing victims to receive the compensation necessary to pay for the ongoing care and hospitalization necessary to begin the healing process.
After a serious injury, the most important thing is for injury victims to get well. This may include long term hospitalization and inpatient therapy. Some injuries may take weeks or months to recover from and not all therapies necessary may be covered by insurance.
Our health and the health of our families is what matters most. Following an accident, we should not have to worry about the cost of medical treatment to get well again. Our livelihoods and emotional wellbeing hinge on recovering from our injuries and trying to live a normal life once more.
Even after being released from the hospital, injury victims may need to return for treatment or therapy. The process of recovery may be arduous and expensive but necessary to making the victim whole.
Follow up medical treatment after an accident may include examinations, physical therapy, corrective surgeries, and medication adjustments. All of these and more may be recovered for after an accident. The right personal injury lawyer will help maximize the compensation you may be entitled to after an accident by seeking these damages and more from the negligent party that caused your accident.
Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC personal injury attorneys
The Cochran Firm, D.C. regularly represents the legal interests of personal injury victims seriously harmed by the reckless actions of negligent parties. Whether you were hurt in an auto accident, construction zone, at your place of employment, on private property, or anywhere else where you were owed a duty to be kept safe, The Cochran Firm, D.C. can help.
