The Marrone Law Firm, LLC Is An Experienced Amputation / Loss of Limb Law Firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The stark reality is that over 500 people each day lose a limb in the United States, while over two million people across the nation live and work each day having lost a limb.
After an accident, injury, or infection, amputation may be necessary in order to save someone’s life. Even with the best medical treatment (which is not always the case), it can be very expensive to rehabilitate and find some return to normalcy. Amputation or loss of a limb can come with huge financial costs as well as mounting lost wages and medical debt.
The Marrone Law Firm, LLC works closely with families in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to fight for the rights of people who have endured a loss of limb or amputation.
An amputation is the removal of a limb, such as your leg or hand. There are generally two categories of amputations/losses of a limb.
In an accident, a limb may be severed from your body. This is known as a traumatic amputation.
In serious car or motorcycle accidents, traumatic amputations are often seen, resulting in one or multiple losses of limbs.
Traumatic amputations most commonly occur in serious motor vehicle accidents, often when the driver is thrown from the zone where they are protected by the vehicle’s safety structure. While riding a motorcycle, you do not have the protection afforded to car drivers. The rise of loss of limbs while in an open vehicle such as a motorcycle, especially when traveling at high speed, can be high depending on the circumstances.
In the workplace, traumatic amputations come along with dangerous professions. Machinists, meat industry workers, and others who work with heavy, sharp, powerful tools, are at risk of traumatic amputations. In these jobs, losses of limbs can range from finger amputation to loss of an eye or an entire hand. Often, those working with heavy machinery may have a limb crushed on the job, which could result in immediate loss of limb or loss of a limb as part of the medical treatment.
Surgeons are often forced to choose between a surgical amputation and leaving an infected limb that could potentially take your life.
Surgical amputations may also be a necessary result of a traumatic injury, where the limb was not fully amputated during the course of the injury but was left in a condition that was not viable.
The most common accidents that are severe enough to be found in an amputation case include:
Sometimes, the loss of a limb has nothing to with an accident but is instead caused by the poor decisions or incompetency of medical personnel working on a patient. Sometimes, individuals with partially severed limbs or other conditions can have the arm or leg saved if proper medical procedures are followed and diligence and expert medical knowledge are used. This means that doctors can definitely be the cause of your unnecessary limb loss, which may make you eligible for a medical malpractice case.
The most common medical malpractice situations that can result in loss of limb and amputation include:
There is also a wide variety of medical complications that can occur due to loss of limb. If the complications occurred due to poor medical services, or if the amputation had to happen due to medical malpractice, these complications and their resulting damages to the patient can also be compensated.
Complications from amputation or loss of limb include:
Losing a limb is not an easy medical situation to deal with. Whether you or a loved one lost an arm or a leg, amputees can experience a wide variety of difficulties and pains, including ghost pain (pain for a limb that used to be there), limited mobility, walking difficulties, ability to work (which can affect anything from typing to driving to operating machinery), serious surgery costs, rehabilitation therapy and handicap challenges, and much more. Losing a piece of one’s body can flip a person’s world upside-down and restrict a victim in every part of their life.
Due to the severity of amputations and their effects, there are a lot of costs that a client can potentially get covered in a Pennsylvania medical malpractice claim scenario.
Costs that can be covered in a PA medical malpractice amputation settlement include:
Where a limb has been lost, there is often fault to be apportioned, which is why it is critical to consult with an experienced law firm such as The Marrone Law Firm, LLC if you have lost a limb due to accident, injury, or medical malpractice.
Cars are designed to protect their occupants just as machines are designed to afford basic protection to people trained to use them in the workplace. However, when something goes wrong due to recklessness which results in a loss of a limb, whether that be due to poor design, faulty maintenance, surgery error, or other types of negligence, it is important to hold the at-fault party responsible for your injuries.
If you have had a limb amputated through a series of events that were not your fault, you may be entitled to compensation for your life-altering injuries. Because amputation and loss of limb cases tend to be complex, the process can be stressful for litigants. Always rely on an experienced plaintiff’s injury attorney with expertise and experience dealing with amputation/loss of limb cases.
Losing a limb is no laughing matter. When someone else is liable for such a serious situation, whether it stems from a medical mistake or an accident, Pennsylvania amputees will often seek compensation. Amputations and the resulting after-effects are costly and can involve many complications, a lot of post-medical treatment and appointments, loss of a job, inability to take care of your family, and a lot of other personal suffering and pain.
If you have been the victim of medical malpractice, a car accident, or some other serious accident resulting in amputation injuries, contact us online or call us at our Philadelphia office to get the legal support you deserve.
Does The Marrone Law Firm, LLC have experience in amputation/loss of limb cases?
Yes. We regularly work on behalf of clients who have sustained a loss of a limb. We look at the specific details of their case to find the best strategy to win our clients the compensation the law affords them.
My doctor didn’t see that I had a preexisting medical condition that may have contributed to my amputation. Could I have a case here?
Yes. Doctors commit medical malpractice when they fail to treat a patient according to the required standard of care. Where a doctor overlooks aspects of your medical history that result in you losing a limb, there may be a viable medical malpractice case to pursue.
I lost a limb while on the job and I was partially at fault. Am I barred from making a claim?
No. Workers are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits and disability payments for an injury suffered while on the job even if they had some degree of fault in the incident. Even if you had some fault for the accident in issue, The Marrone Law Firm, LLC can help you get the compensation you legally deserve.
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