Okemos Catastrophic Injury Attorneys
Overcoming Life-Changing Suffering Across All of the Lower Peninsula
Have you seriously been hurting in an accident that wasn’t caused by your mistakes? You could be the victim of catastrophic injuries which have turned your entire world upside down. But you don’t need to sit idle when recovery looks bleak, and medical bills continue to pile up. You have the right to take legal action against the parties who are responsible for the accident and, more importantly, claim compensation you actually deserve. Tackling all the evidence-gathering and legal processes that come from a personal or catastrophic injury claim isn’t easily doable when you’re suffering the consequences of such injuries. Our traumatic injury lawyers can handle all the logistics involved for you while you focus on healing. At Grewal Law, all our professionals are seasoned, compassionate, and always prepared to fight tooth and nail for the best possible results for our clients. As a family-owned firm, we understand the life-disrupting havoc your injuries have wreaked on you and your loved ones. All we want to do is everything we can to get you the full damages you need to maintain the highest quality of life moving forward. You can trust in our client-focused philosophy of legal care, provided by each and every professional at our law firm. We work closely with you from start to finish to offer the help you need with the attention you deserve.
Schedule a free consultation in Okemos now by calling (888) 211-5798 or contacting us online.
What Injuries Are Considered Catastrophic?
Catastrophic injuries are life-altering and, in many cases, permanently disabling. People who survive catastrophic harm often require lifelong care and support. Treatments and care for trauma of this kind are often incredibly expensive.
Many people struggling with the consequences of catastrophic injuries are unable to return to the life they love and the work they enjoy, resulting in extensive and life-altering financial hardship. Oftentimes, even a complete recovery is impossible. At Grewal Law, we will not let you struggle with a traumatic injury when we could be helping you get access to the damages you deserve. If someone else is to blame for the accident that caused your injuries, they should be the ones to face the consequences. We can help you hold them accountable.
Contact us today to get started on your catastrophic injury case!
From Car Accidents to Explosions: Causes of Catastrophic Injuries
Catastrophic injuries can be caused by just about any type of accident, though some specific types of accidents are much more likely to result in these types of severe or life-threatening injuries. At Grewal Law, we have handled a variety of complex and challenging catastrophic injury cases involving a wide range of accidents and incidents. Our team leverages this extensive experience to help our clients overcome what comes their way.
Just a few examples of the types of catastrophic injuries and accidents we handle include but are not limited to:
- Mesothelioma and Asbestos Cases: When a person is exposed to asbestos, a natural mineral made up of tiny fibers, they could develop a severe form of lung cancer called mesothelioma. Companies which used asbestos in construction or other applications were aware of its health risks to some degree or should have been, making them responsible for any resulting harm.
- Mass Transportation Accidents: Mass transportation accidents can have many causes, from human error and negligence to product defects and other forms of oversight. Severe crashes involving buses, ferries, subways, or trains can result in multiple deaths and even more injuries, making them some of the most heavy-hitting cases of catastrophic injuries.
- Accidents and Injuries Involving Defective Products: Catastrophic injuries can occur when a person gets hurt by a dangerous or defective product. The company that made the product in question or the manufacturer of some of its individual components could be held responsible for any harm that results. Some injuries occur when a product is not labeled properly, or when it fails to come with important safety instructions.
Damaged Past and Future Earnings
Severely limiting, and in most cases, completely eliminating permanently. If you are not able to work and earn money for yourself and your loved ones, you deserve to be compensated for these losses. In addition, if a catastrophic injury forces you to change your career or settle into a lower paying job, we can help you with this element of economic damages as well.
Medical and Other Expenses
A catastrophic injury is likely to also present high costs for medical care, prescription medications, assistive devices, and even home modifications that are necessary to allow a person to safely move around his or her home. Insurance is only going to go so far to help you. The more serious injuries involve a need for more extensive care and support from trained nursing professionals. Our team of highly skilled personal injury attorneys can work to get you access to the fair compensation you deserve for the present and future medical and other expenses tied to your catastrophic injuries.
Pain and Suffering
Catastrophic injuries are not just about the financial toll they take on your health and well-being. Outcomes of these injuries often include extensive pain and suffering, mental anguish, and reduced enjoyment in daily pleasures or activities. Our attorneys can also ensure you have the opportunity to seek compensation for damages tied to pain and suffering. Michigan law does not restrict payouts in these types of cases, making it important for you to work with a proven legal team that can focus on getting you access to all the money and support that you deserve to support you moving forward. You don't have to move forward after a catastrophic injury alone. Our team at Grewal Law is here to provide the legal guidance and support that you need and deserve during this challenging time.
What Are The 3 Types Of Catastrophic Injuries?
Catastrophic injuries are life-altering injuries that permanently or long-term impair one or more of your mental or physical abilities, preventing you from engaging in everyday tasks, your career, leisure activities, or functioning as a person originally would after suffering a serious harm. These severe injuries involve immense emotional, financial, or physical distress in both the short and long term. The expenses related to such injuries are high, making the judgment for a personal injury claim essential in order to live a better future.
Connect with our Okemos catastrophic injury attorneys today at Grewal Law if your injuries involve elements of the following severe effects:
Loss of bodily or cognitive functions
A person can suffer catastrophic harm when permanently losing the ability to control one or more limbs, digits, or other parts of the body. The extent needs to be extensive, painful, or even life-altering enough to affect their daily routines and the enjoyments they had before. Loss of cognitive functions like memory, reasoning, and other basic cognitive skills may also affect a person’s ability to work, socialize, or lead an active lifestyle. These qualities are some of the irreplaceable elements that make up your daily life, personality, and experiences. Losing some of those, or completely losing them, due to a catastrophic accident can indeed change your entire world. This includes extensive loss of mobility or, in more severe cases, even paralysis.
Multiple severely disabling injuries or loss of multiple body parts or sensory functions are arguably the most challenging types of
Significantly longer recovery may support a traumatic injury claim.
Recoveries from long-term memory loss or severe loss of bodily functions may need you to slowly undergo lengthy treatments, therapies, and regimens that you otherwise could avoid. The medical bills, hospital treatments, physical therapy needs, and the extent of the treatment coupled with the recovery required count as enough evidence to examine the expenses to seek recovery from the other party.
Significantly longer hospital treatments, extensive surgeries, and other procedures, leading to prolonged recovery
Post-Traumatic Therapy and Cognitive Coping Techniques
Personalizing your claims with elements of the type that best supports your claim is also on US law. Therapy needed for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after a serious crisis, trauma, or injury will likely take months to years to achieve full recovery to life prior to the event. Losing these possible moments to therapy after being a victim rather than living a normal life is also an injury.
What Our Firm Can Do to Help Your Catastrophic Injury Case
Tackling a personal injury case in Michigan is no piece of cake. Struggling through a burdensome complex and paperwork-heavy case when you’re profiled with serious trauma can make that recovery even more challenging. In short, we want to do everything we can to hold the right person(s) accountable and ultimately obtain maximum compensation for you.
Some of the most common signs we’ve seen involving the links between negligence and fatal accidents include driver behavior linked to specific types of traffic disaster as well as making the roadways safer. physical and emotional trauma caused by a severe accident could have been avoided. If only the driver acted safely on the road or the car was designed better, you may not be where you are at now. We thoroughly interrogate experiences and experts to support those claims and secure deserved legal support for you.
Here are just a few of the many steps our firm can take to help you with your catastrophic injury case in Michigan:
- Analyzing your case – To move forward with a personal injury or catastrophic harm case, we will require a deep understanding of the factors surrounding the accident. Our courtroom experience consistently helps us assess when you have a strong case that can positively impact your future or whether your chances of success pose difficulty. Catastrophic injuries cases require that we prove elements of negligence, liability, and your right to compensation.
- Providing counseling, guidance, and support – For every step forward you make in your case, our attorneys will be there every step of the way providing guidance, support, counseling, and skillful legal advice. Begin with a free consultation to discuss your case, your chances for success, and the long-term financial opportunities available to you.
Where Could Injuries Occur That Sometimes Warrant a Catastrophic Injury Claim?
Catastrophic injuries frequently stem from events like a motor vehicle accident or a severe accident in which you fall from a great distance, such as a roof. While these two types of accidents are certainly common factors in many catastrophic injury cases, they are not the only things that can cause severe or actionable injuries. Almost anything that causes a severe or permanently disabling injury can be grounds for a catastrophic injury case in the state of Michigan.
Certain injuries may only happen in certain situations or when a specific set of factors are present. However, such injuries and accidents still involve negligence and liability on the other party. Our experienced catastrophic injury lawyer can help you evaluate those situations and file a successful case.
At Grewal Law, we have witnessed successful lawsuits and claims involving a catastrophic injury in Michigan based on the following incidents:
- Slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall accidents: These accidents sometimes involve significant hazards on another person’s property and negligence on the part of the property owner or their employees.
- Construction or scaffolding accidents: Workers on a construction site who use scaffolding regularly or other elevated work surfaces frequently suffer severe or fatal injuries when those elevated work surfaces collapse.
- Car accidents: Car crash-related injuries are among the most common in Michigan. These types of incidents often result from a driver violating one of Michigan’s negligence statues.
- A preventable manufacturing defect or equipment malfunction: Similar to workplace accidents, Michigan residents might suffer severe injuries as a result of equipment malfunctions at a place where that equipment is commonly used, such as their home or place of worship.
- A pedestrian or bicyclist accident involving a typical day of jogging or biking that is interrupted by a negligent driver on the road.
- Medical malpractice: Acted negligently or neglectfully at some point during medical treatment and care. Birth injuries, medical defects, and medical malpractice injuries are some of the most harrowing invalid claims.
Common Damages in a Catastrophic Injury Claim
Catastrophic injury cases are unique because of the large sums that can be awarded by juries and the attending companies or individuals. Some of the injuries to your son or daughter include:
- Medical expenses: The court takes a lot of things into account when determining the amount of your medical expenses to cover. Some of those factors are the injuries incurred, the level of fault in the parties involved, and even which state the case is being tried in.
- Lost income or reduction in earning capacity: A common coverage is PTD coverage . As a result, a seriously injured part in an accident, you are able to claim those benefits under the motorist's no-fault policy . Denied a deserved claim? Speak with our legal team now.
- Lost wages are usually the total amount of income you would have made in the past, present, and future, if you did not have an injury or the PTD injury.
What If the Severe Injury Was My Fault?
Moving forward with a lawsuit involving a traumatic injury can be immensely challenging if you are focusing on things that can be avoided with action care. However, you can still work with our deeply experienced team of catastrophic injury attorneys at Grewal Law to review the preseason and see what the options are. If you experience catastrophic harm at work and you and your employer agreed to Michigan Workers’ Compensation benefits, you also have the right to claim those benefits. However, our attorneys can still explore the possibility of filing claims against third parties for additional rewards on top of those benefits if the company was responsible for the injury.
What Is a Catastrophic Injuries Lawsuit Based On?
At Grewal Law, our attorneys will cover their overall legal assessment of your needs by gathering and presenting the evidence needed. The court will also want certain elements to see a targeted form of care that often goes beyond the acute, extensive, and chronic treatments that can be prescribed by your doctor. Depending on the specifics of your injuries and who they were, the parties involved may share some liability, but that won’t matter if your negligence is also part of it. In Michigan, you won’t be insured if you are 50 percent responsible for the accident. Grewal Law condenses expertise and courtroom experience to ensure that your rights are protected when you are partially or completely at fault and deserve recovery from your injury.
The reason negligence is at work in most catastrophic injuries is that someone missed something or made decisions that were more dangerous than necessary. During a court case, that person or associated organization can properly handle the report review and assessment of liability for acute trauma, hematoma, amputation, and any other personal injury. As a result, the insurer large and in inconvenience, seeking and pulling all three reports on a regular basis. For example, your accident is not a result of your own negligence or intentional maliciousness on another person’s or group’s part.
If you try to directly accuse the party of intentional behavior, you will need to make sure you have the evidence to prove these claims in a civil court of law. Individuals, Motor Carriers and Their Liability Insurance Providers, Vehicle Manufacturers, Medical Provider Firms and Organizations, Premises Owners (e.g. businesses, homeowners, landlords, etc.) that fail to keep a safe atmosphere or property A catastrophic loss, many factors need to present enough viable evidence to possibly take the lawsuit or claims involving a
Our Settlements & Verdicts
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$2.3 Million Birth Injury
Failure to properly deliver a newborn baby resulting in the child developing Cerebral Palsy & lifelong disability.
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Over $6 Million Birth Injury
Traumatic birth delivery case causing hypoxic brain injury and cerebral palsy.
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Over $2 Million Birth Injury
Medical malpractice case arising from a traumatic birth delivery causing brain damage and cerebral palsy.
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$4.8 Million Birth Injury
Settlement for a baby who suffered complications from a lack of oxygen from a delayed C-section at the time of birth.
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$625,000 Car Accident
A 30-year-old woman was a passenger in an SUV who suffered a fractured pelvis in two places, surgery, and permanent leg problems.
Client Testimonials
At Grewal Law PLLC, your satisfaction is our priority! See for yourself what our clients have to say about working with us.
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Grewal Law has been amazingly empathetic and forward-thinking through this very emotional and trying time.- Anonymous
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Grewal Law offers a service to its clients, that is professional and the entire staff makes a personal effort to help each individual.- M.L.O
Why Choose Us?
Navigating the legal process after a catastrophic injury can be overwhelming. At Grewel Law, we have the experience and knowledge to guide you through every step. Here are some reasons why hiring our Okemos catastrophic injury lawyers is essential:
- Expertise in Personal Injury Law: Our attorneys are well-versed in Michigan's personal injury laws, allowing us to build a strong case on your behalf.
- Investigation and Evidence Gathering: We conduct thorough investigations to gather evidence, witness statements, and expert testimony to support your claim.
- Negotiating with Insurance Companies: Insurance companies often attempt to minimize payouts. Our team is skilled in negotiating fair settlements, ensuring you receive the compensation you deserve.
- Trial Experience: If your case goes to trial, our lawyers are prepared to represent you aggressively in court, advocating for your rights and best interests.
- Compassionate Support: We understand the emotional toll catastrophic injuries can take on you and your family. Our team is dedicated to providing compassionate support throughout the legal process.
To request a free case review, contact us today at (888) 211-5798!
Meet Our Team
A Relentless Firm That Doesn't Take No For An Answer
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Manvir (Mick) S. Grewal Sr. Founder and Managing Partner
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Scott Weidenfeller Attorney; Medical Malpractice & Personal Injury Team Leader
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Ayanna D. Neal Attorney; Sexual Assault & Civil Rights Team Leader
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Nolan L. Erickson Attorney; New Client Intake Coordinator & Mass Torts Projects
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Rico D. Neal Attorney; Criminal Team Leader
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David S. Mittleman Litigating Attorney
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Gurrajan Gill Attorney
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Chelsea Lenard Attorney
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Michael Szparaga Attorney
Why Choose Grewal Law PLLC?
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Family-owned and nationally recognized
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Proven track record of success
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Client-focused approach
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Our team is accessible 24/7
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Serving the Michigan area for decades
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100+ years of combined legal experience