Hip injuries can happen in car accidents, construction accidents, or after a slip and fall. Debilitating hip injuries can leave you out of work or facing high medical bills. At Bader Scott Injury Lawyers, we can help you avoid financial ruin after an injury. Our team can help you file a claim to seek compensation for your losses.
An Athens hip injury attorney from Bader Scott Injury Lawyers can take steps to help you through your claim. Our personal injury team understands how a hip injury can negatively impact your life. As a result, we advocate for our clients to help them afford the necessary treatments.
How Badar Scott Injury Lawyers Can Help You After Suffering a Hip Injury
The attorneys from our firm can take the necessary steps to help you settle your claim. While our team can negotiate for a fair settlement if the insurance company doesn’t agree, we aren’t afraid to take your case to court.
Throughout the entirety of your case, we will work tirelessly to help you get compensated for your losses. Steps we can take include:
- Communicate with the insurance company for you
- Identify your losses
- Send a demand letter requesting financial compensation for your losses
- Negotiate for you to recover your losses if the insurance company doesn’t agree to the terms of the demand letter
- Represent you in court
Whether you have a mild or severe hip injury, our team can take on your case and advocate for you to get the financial compensation you deserve.
For a free legal consultation with a hip injuries lawyer serving Athens, call (404) 888-8888
Proving You Suffered Damages Due to Your Hip Injury
To recover compensation, you must prove you suffered monetary and non-monetary losses. Monetary losses, also known as economic damages, could compensate you for the financial losses you endured. Non-monetary losses, also known as non-economic damages, could compensate you for losses associated with the emotional and physical issues you dealt with.
Our attorneys can quantify economic damages more quickly because they usually have documentation indicating their value. Examples of economic damages you could endure because of a hip injury include:
- Medical bills: Costs associated with any medical treatment you need for your hip. Medical care could include hip surgery, emergency medical care, rehabilitative care, pain medications, and doctor’s visits.
- Future medical bills: If your hip injury requires medical attention in the future, you could seek compensation for future medical bills. Future medical bills could also include work benefits you lost, such as health insurance or retirement benefits.
- Assistive devices: Costs associated with devices to help you walk or move. For example, you could require a wheelchair or walker to get from place to place.
- Lost income: If your job requires manual labor, you might miss work while recovering from your injury. Any income you lost during that time could get recovered.
- Future lost income: if you cannot return to work because of your hip injury, you could recover compensation for future lost income. Our attorneys can speak to experts and calculate the projected value of future lost income.
Examples of non-economic damages include the following:
- Physical pain and suffering: The physical pain, anguish, discomfort, or inconvenience your hip injury caused.
- Emotional distress: The emotional suffering you experienced because of your accident or injury. Examples could include anxiety, depression, fear, sleep-related issues, or post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Loss of enjoyment: You could recover compensation if you can no longer participate in activities, hobbies, or sports that you could before your injury.
We can take the necessary steps to investigate the accident to prove you suffered damages. We can collect evidence, such as your medical records and pay stubs, to prove you suffered the economic damages we claim.
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Common Trauma-Related Hip Injuries
There are various hip injuries you could sustain from trauma to that area. Hip injuries can range in severity. Depending on the type and severity of your injury, you could experience intense pain and loss of mobility.
According to Mayo Clinic, common hip injuries include:
- Hip fracture: A serious injury that could have life-threatening complications. Symptoms include the inability to get up independently, severe pain in the groin, inability to put weight on the side of the injury, and bruising.
- Hip labral tear: Involves the ring of cartilage that follows the outside rim of the hip joint socket. While some people don’t experience symptoms, some experience pain in the hip, a locking or clicking sensation in the hip joint, and a limited range of motion in the hip.
- Hip sprain: Tearing of ligaments in the hip area. Symptoms include pain, swelling, bruising, and limited ability to move the affected joint. You could also hear a popping sound in your joint when the injury occurs.
Complications Hip Injuries Can Cause
The risk of complications from hip fractures and other injuries usually requires surgical repair or replacement.
If your hip injury decreases your mobility, you could experience the following complications:
- Blood clots
- Bed sores
- Pneumonia
- Loss of muscle mass
In severe cases, these complications could cause death. So, it’s best to get the medical care you need quickly after a hip injury.
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Contact a Hip Injury Lawyer Serving Athens For a Free Consultation
Contacting a hip injury attorney soon after your accident can help your case. O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33 states you have two years after the date of the accident to file a lawsuit against the liable party. Developing a solid case takes time. By reaching out to our team as soon as possible, you give us more time to strategize and prove you deserve to recover compensation.
Contact us today for a free consultation by filling out our contact form. A member of our legal team can answer your questions and provide insight into your potential case.
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