Catastrophic injuries can be physically, emotionally and financially devastating. Victims and their families may be able to obtain compensation through a personal injury claim. This legal guide offers information on defining catastrophic injuries, types, causes, and how an attorney can help.

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State data presenting the number and frequency of work-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities are available from two BLS programs: nonfatal cases of work-related injuries and illnesses that are recorded by employers under the Occupational safety and Health Administration's (OSHA's) recordkeeping guidelines are available for 46 States and Territories from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII); fatal cases of work-related injuries are available for all States, Territories, and New York City under a separate program, the BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals - contributed significantly to the 30 percent decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent, nonprofit, scientific, and educational organization dedicated to reducing the losses — deaths, injuries, and property damage — from crashes on the nation's highways.

The National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research collects and disseminates death and permanent disability sports injury data that involve brain and/or spinal cord injuries. The research is funded by a grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the American Football Coaches Association, and the National Federation of State High School Associations. This research has been conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1965. Each year three annual reports are compiled.

The National Patient Safety Foundation is the indispensable resource for individuals and organizations committed to improving the safety of patients.

Whether your client is a child with a significant brain injury or not, the medical negligence practitioner who represents catastrophically injured victims is often forced to settle cases for an amount far less than the case on liability and damages would warrant, simply because in the absence of a corporate defendant there would be no way to collect full damages.

Because catastrophic injuries may involve the future payment of significant money damages if others were at fault in causing a catastrophic injury, the catastrophic injury case differs in two significant ways. First, it is essential that the victim or the victim's family act promptly to secure competent legal representation. This is particularly important because time is of the essence in many of these cases given the gravity of the injuries involved. Second, it is also important that the attorney handling the catastrophic injury case shows a willingness to devote the significant resources that may be necessary to properly build the case.

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