If you’ve recently suffered a finger amputation due to an accident, it’s time to speak with a lawyer. Finger amputations are undoubtedly serious and life-changing injuries that come with physical, mental, and financial challenges. Accident victims like you may be eligible for compensation that can help, but you need to consult with a lawyer promptly. You may have only a short time to pursue your case.
The Serious Impact of Finger Amputations
When your finger gets amputated in an accident, it’s called a traumatic amputation. Traumatic amputations can occur in industrial accidents, at job sites, in explosions, or due to machinery, for example. When you have to have your finger removed at the hospital after an accident, it’s called a surgical amputation. Both types of finger amputations come with significant mental and physical tolls. Your fingers are part of your body, and losing part of your body can lead to grief, depression, and other difficult feelings. Moreover, you may struggle with everyday tasks such as typing, grasping objects, carrying objects, eating, writing, and other similar activities.
Finger amputees may deal with changes at work due to their accidents. Ultimately, you might need to change jobs or lose your job because you can’t do all the same things you could before the accident. Compensation is available for accident victims who lose wages due to amputations. You could recover both past lost wages and future lost wages if your wages decrease due to your accident. To learn more about how to pursue a lost wages claim, reach out to a local personal injury lawyer who has dealt with serious injury claims like yours.
The Serious Cost of Finger Amputations
Usually, accident victims with finger amputations need significant medical care. Some types of care that you might have needed include:
- Ambulance ride
- Emergency room care
- Surgery
- Plastic surgery
- Wound care
- Blood transfusions
- Outpatient care
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Prosthetics
- Prosthetic fittings
It’s essential to keep track of documents that show the medical care you received and when. Your lawyer can help you locate documents from your health insurance company and medical providers to back up your claim. You may be entitled to compensation for both past and future medical expenses due to your accident, so documentation of each expense is important.
Insurance companies and large businesses don’t want to pay for the high costs associated with finger amputations. They will do their best to fight your case, often making lowball settlement offers that don’t take into account your needed future medical care. Hire the team that will fight for you against the giants to receive the compensation you deserve.
Frequently Asked Questions
I injured my fingers in an industrial accident last year, but my doctor didn’t recommend amputation until now. Can I recover compensation?
Please contact our firm to discuss your options further. Depending on what happened with your personal injury claim immediately after your accident, you may still have the right to recover compensation now. Your path forward will depend on your unique circumstances. From the beginning, Allen & Nunnally’s team works on every client’s case like we are taking it to trial. You’ll have no better friend in us, and those who caused your accident will have no worse enemy.
I’m not sure who was responsible for my relative’s finger amputation accident. How do we figure that out?
Allen & Nunnally can help accident victims identify the persons and businesses who should be held responsible. Sometimes, determining who owes compensation requires a significant amount of research and legal analysis. Finger amputation victims deserve that level of service, especially because these injuries can have such a lasting physical, mental, and financial impact.
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Have you suffered a finger amputation in an accident? Are you struggling to figure out how to move forward? At Allen & Nunnally, we pride ourselves on maintaining a high level of preparation and discipline, which stems from our time in the Marines. Our success on behalf of injured clients shows why hardworking Texans trust us to fight for the compensation they deserve. To schedule a consultation with one of our Houston-based attorneys, email us at info@allen-nunnally.com, use our convenient Contact Form, or call (713) 955-2217.