Amputations, Catastrophic, and Other Medically Expensive Injuries

Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Amputations, Catastrophic Injuries, and Other Medically Expensive Injuries

An injury at work often has severe impact on a worker and the worker’s family, but some are particularly devastating. Some of those injuries, such as amputations, result in workers’ compensation benefits that are unusually weighted toward medical expense. Those cases require special handling, particularly when it comes to settlement. The future medical expense often provides an opportunity to settle in ways that can be more beneficial to the injured worker than in other cases, though the injuries themselves are horrible. It is also important to coordinate benefits with other programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, and health insurance. As a general rule, you should not apply for those other benefits (except for continuation of health insurance) before talking to an experienced workers’ compensation lawyer about how they relate to worker’s compensation.

The ”medical benefits” in catastrophic cases can include housing and modifications to existing housing, transportation, modified vans, specialized wheelchairs, home nursing care, and even payment of family members to provide attendant care. Those cases are treated differently by insurance companies, and those who suffer those injuries need a lawyer who is familiar with how to handle them.

Amputations can occur directly from an injury or as a result of complications after it. The prosthetic limbs that replace the lost ones can be very expensive and usually require maintenance, repair, and replacement for the rest of the worker’s life. Injuries that result in extreme, permanent pain can be very expensive to treat, due to medications and devices.

Some examples of medically expensive injuries include:

• Amputations, whether caused directly by an injury or by complications after, like by infections that are made worse by diabetes
• Injuries, usually to hands, feet, arms, or legs, which develop into pain syndromes, like Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) or Complex Regional Pain
• Head injuries that cause permanent, severe headaches that are treated with expensive drugs or injections
• Spinal injuries that require on-going therapies, including medications, injections, or Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA)
• Spinal, head, and other injuries that are so debilitating that the worker is unable to take care of him- or herself, including paralyzing injuries

If you have suffered an amputation injury, a catastrophic injury, or another injury that involves unusually expensive treatment, we have the experience to help you receive the workers’ compensation benefits you need. At the law office of Jay Gervasi, P.A., we have more than 34 years of experience providing hurt people and their families in Greensboro and throughout central North Carolina with the personalized service they need at every step of the legal process.

No Need To Suffer Unnecessarily – Contact Jay Gervasi, P.A., Today

Learn more about the workers’ compensation benefits an experienced lawyer can help you receive and the important decisions that go into receiving them. Attorney Jay Gervasi is available for free initial consultations and can be reached through an online contact form or by calling 336-609-8589.