Catastrophic-InjuryLaw.com - Fair compensation for victims of brain or spinal-cord injury
About Catastrophic-InjuryLaw.com
Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP is an exceptional Southern California law firm that has won billions of dollars in compensation for seriously injured people, including those with brain injuries and spinal-cord injuries. The firm's seasoned trial lawyers work with brain and spinal-cord injury victims and their families throughout California and the United States.
Legal counsel for victims of catastrophic injury
Award-winning California law firm Greene Broillet & Wheeler has decades of experience counseling families and victims of catastrophic injury. The firm has a successful record of winning multimillion-dollar compensation for victims of brain or spinal-cord injury and wrongful death.
Anyone at any time can be the victim of a catastrophic injury. Common causes of brain and spinal-cord injury include car accidents, unsafe work conditions, and physical assault in the line of military or police duty.
As legal counsel, Greene Broillet & Wheeler attorneys help victims and families:
- Asses damages due to brain or spinal-cord injury or wrongful death
- Evaluate negligence as a cause of the injury
- Build a legal case based on damages and negligence
- Bring the case to jury trial, where it is most likely to win fair compensation
Greene Broillet & Wheeler law firm has been voted the #1 personal injury law firm in California by Best Lawyers in America one of the top plaintiff's law firms in the United States by National Law Journal. The Santa Monica firm provides legal counsel to clients in California and across the United States.
Case building for negligence or wrongful death
Greene Broillet & Wheeler's legal team are seasoned trial lawyers who never set foot in court without constructing a strong, winnable case.
Greene Broillet & Wheeler's legal team relies on its in-house investigators, research staff and a professional network of medical and financial planning experts to build a strong catastrophic injury or wrongful death case.
Legal counsel may employ any of the following tactics in order to win fair compensation for a client:
- Computer simulations and physical models
- Investigative data
- Plaintiff or family testimony
- Medical records or testimony
- Financial projections
- Persuasive argument and cross-examination
Hard facts about brain and spinal-cord injury
A catastrophic accident resulting in brain or spinal-cord injury is instantly life changing. Victims face the financial burden of multiple surgeries, rehabilitation and ongoing medical care. Professional home care may be required, and some victims are so disabled that they will not work again.
Victims of catastrophic injury have the right, and in many cases the financial imperative, to seek financial compensation to the full extent of the law.
Traumatic brain injury
About 50,000 people die of a traumatic brain injury annually. Another 5.3 million people live with a disability due to a traumatic incident resulting in brain damage.
Possible effects of brain injury:
- Memory loss
- Personality changes
- Impaired thinking or concentration
- Inability to speak or move
- Coma or death
Spinal-cord injury
An injury to the neck or spine can result in permanent paralysis. According to some estimates, more than 400,000 people in the United States currently live with a spinal-cord injury, with roughly 10,000 new cases each year.
Possible effects of spinal-cord injury:
- Quadriplegia: loss of feeling and function from the neck down
- Paraplegia: loss of sensation and motor function from the waist down
- Inability to breathe or regulate heart function, requiring a ventilator or pacemaker
Why a jury trial?
It is Greene Broillet & Wheeler's philosophy that bringing cases before a jury is the surest path to fair compensation. The firm has proven this philosophy countless times by winning multimillion-dollar jury settlements in cases that may have settled out of court for far less.
