Truck accidents are incredibly dangerous and often leave victims very badly injured. Injuries sustained in truck accidents often require emergency medical care, the cost of which can easily balloon to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Moreover, victims of truck accidents may have to deal with their injuries longer after medical procedures and physical therapy have wrapped up.
If you want justice after getting injured in a truck accident, look no further. We have helped many plaintiffs who were hurt in truck crashes and collisions caused by negligence. Let us put that experience to work, helping you with your claim so you can get the financial compensation you are owed.
For a free case review from Howe Law’s truck accident lawyers, call our offices at (844) 876-4357 today.
Injuries From Truck Accidents in Southaven, MS
Truck accidents frequently lead to very serious injuries. The fact of the matter is that most cars on the road are not going to stand up well to getting hit by a truck, even with top-of-the-line safety features. Detailing the exact injuries you got to our truck accident lawyers is crucial to your claim because it forms an important part of the factual basis of your case and also informs what you can ask for in damages.
Broken Bones
Broken bones of all kinds are common in truck accidents. Not only do limbs frequently get broken or shattered, but also ribs, spines, pelvises, and the skull can fracture in a truck accident. Broken bones will almost always require a cast or brace to heal properly, and more serious breaks will potentially require multiple surgeries to make the fullest recovery possible.
Cuts and Puncture Wounds
Cutting and puncturing wounds may not be the first thing people think of when they picture truck accident injuries, but broken glass, warped metal, and other debris can and do cut up and go through victims of truck accidents.
Deep cuts can look extremely grisly and will almost always require stitching to heal properly. Additionally, a cut can quickly turn into a loss of a digit, like a finger or toe, if it goes across the wrong area of the body. Puncture wounds, on the other hand, may superficially look less dire than cuts, but they are usually much more dangerous because it is harder to stem the bleeding from a puncture wound, and the injury need only penetrate a couple of inches into the body to potentially hit vital organs and cause serious damage.
Traumatic Brain Injuries
Traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, are caused by forceful impacts to the head that can damage the brain. Even “mild” traumatic brain injuries, more commonly called concussions, can have serious side effects like memory loss and mood swings. Moreover, more serious TBIs can result in permanent loss of basic motor functions or even death.
Burns
Particularly if the truck that hit you is carrying flammable or otherwise volatile materials, you can suffer severe burns in a truck accident. Burns often require painful skin grafts to heal, and burn victims often have permanent scarring or disfigurement even after they have recovered.
Amputation
Truck accidents can also result in limbs getting amputated. This can happen in two ways. First, other injuries sustained in a truck accident may leave doctors no choice but to remove a limb that is damaged beyond repair or infected. Second, so-called “traumatic amputation” can take place when a limb is removed during a truck accident. The latter is extremely dangerous, and you can easily die from blood loss after a traumatic amputation without emergency medical care.
Damages in Southaven, MS Truck Accident Lawsuits
If you are successful in your claim, the court will award you damages in the form of financial compensation. Damages are the way that courts try and “rewind” events for the plaintiff. Sadly, in many truck accident cases, the plaintiff’s injuries make literally “resetting” things an impossibility, so financial compensation is used as a substitute.
Economic Damages
Economic damages are based on things that have a readily ascertainable monetary value. This category covers things like medical expenses, lost opportunities to earn income and property damage.
For medical expenses, you can get damages for both immediate emergency care and long-term treatments like medication or physical therapy. For lost income, you could get damages based on missed income from the time you took off work, a difference in pay for taking a job that pays less, or your expected future income if your injuries are such that you can no longer work.
Non-Economic Damages
Non-economic damages encompass things that are less immediately clear-cut in their value than economic damages. For example, you can seek damages for the pain and suffering you experienced because of the injuries you sustained in the accident, even though there is no price tag on “pain” or “suffering.” Moreover, this is not just limited to physical pain. You can also seek damages for the mental and emotional effects of your injuries.
Since each plaintiff will experience truck accidents and their aftermath differently, there is no set-in-stone value for non-economic damages. Therefore, you will collaborate with our attorneys to determine their value for you and convince the judge and jury that you should be awarded damages.
Punitive Damages
Punitive damages are different from economic and non-economic damages because they are not meant to compensate you but instead are meant to punish the defendant. Courts will only award punitive damages under certain circumstances, so you should talk to our truck accident lawyers about whether seeking them makes sense in your case.
Speak to a Southaven, MS Truck Accident Lawyer Today
Our truck accident lawyers can go over your case for free when you contact Howe Law at (844) 876-4357.
