Tallahassee Injury Lawyers Fight for Just Compensation

Every look in the mirror is a painful reminder of your loss if you’ve been left with scars or disfigurement after an accident. The physical, mental, and emotional damage never fully heals.

A Tallahassee personal injury lawyer at Searcy Denney cannot erase the damage or undo the harm suffered, but we can work to obtain justice and resources to provide for the future. Together, we can help you find a sense of peace and hope, enabling you to move forward after your devastating losses.

Compensation for Scarring and Disfigurement

When someone’s irresponsible actions leave you with scars or other disfigurement, your life is affected in ways other people can barely imagine. Our legal team works to establish the liability of those who caused your injuries so that you can receive compensation for the multitude of consequences you face on a daily basis.

Some of these factors have a direct economic cost, such as the cost of surgery to improve the appearance or functionality of your body. Many of the most important impacts of scarring and disfigurement do not have a direct monetary equivalent, but they have a tremendous cost in terms of the quality of your life. We work to recover full compensation for each and every factor.

Depending on your situation, we may seek compensation for effects such as:

• Hospital and doctors’ fees for surgeries and other treatments
• Fees for physical and occupational therapy
• Medications and medical devices
• Income lost due to time missed from work
• Income reduced due to future employment prospects
• Loss of bodily function
• Pain and suffering
• Emotional anguish
• Loss of enjoyment of activities
• PTSD
• Loss of companionship, consortium, and support

To ensure that all the impacts of your injuries are fully accounted for, it can be helpful to keep a journal of how you are feeling and how your scarring and disfigurement are affecting your life each day. If your scarred skin itches and hurts, describe how it feels. If the discomfort prevents you from sleeping, make note of it. If your injuries impact your sense of sight or hearing, explain the problems this causes for you.

If you were feeling content until a glance in the mirror triggered an episode of post-traumatic stress, document that reignited trauma. If friends invited you to go out to lunch but you just can’t face the thought of people staring at you, write down what you’re missing and why. When you compile day after day of heartbreaking examples of your losses, you can create a powerful tool your personal injury lawyer can use to recover maximum compensation for the intangible effects of your injuries.

Many Types of Accidents Can Lead to Scarring and Disfigurement

At Searcy Denney, we’ve seen that scarring and disfigurement can result from a wide array of situations. While these situations occasionally involve deliberate intent to cause harm, most of the time, the injuries are due to negligent conduct, where someone fails to follow through with what they should be doing under the circumstances.

Motor vehicle collisions commonly lead to burns, severe cuts, and severed or crushed body parts that leave victims disfigured. While serious car accidents often result in scarring, severe disfigurement is even more common in truck accident cases, particularly those involving heavy, hard-to-control vehicles such as tractor-trailers, tanker trucks, and transport trailers.

When an accident victim is hit by a vehicle while they are unprotected, they run a great risk of suffering severe road rash, leading to painful scarring. Victims of motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, and golf cart accidents are often subjected to road rash injuries.

While motor vehicle collisions are a frequent cause of scarring and disfigurement, they are far from the only cause. Medical mistakes committed by inattentive doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals often result in disfiguring outcomes. Dog bites or other animal attacks often result in disfigurement. Exposure to dangerous chemicals can trigger chemical burns with severe scarring. This is sometimes a result of defects in products, including improper labeling and failure to include appropriate warnings. Even injuries that are initially purely internal can lead to significant scarring due to the medical procedures necessary to treat them.

Disfiguring Injuries are Often Catastrophic

When an injury is considered catastrophic, the designation refers to the effect on the victim’s life. A catastrophic injury changes the course of a victim’s life and frequently alters the living situation of an entire family. Scars and disfigurement affect the way you see yourself and the way others see and react to you. That can have a devastating impact on your life with effects that are impossible to escape. Hopes and dreams for the future may be banished permanently.

It is particularly important when dealing with a catastrophic injury to ensure that you work with a Tallahassee personal injury lawyer who understands how to persuasively demonstrate the effects of your injuries so that you can obtain full compensation for the losses you have experienced thus far and those you will encounter in the future. At Searcy Denney, our team has decades of experience fighting for justice for victims of catastrophic injuries, and we know how to ensure that every loss receives fair consideration and compensation.

Talk to a Scarring and Disfigurement Lawyer at Searcy Denney Tallahassee

Insurance companies and defense attorneys use every trick and strategy in their arsenal to prevent accident victims from recovering fair compensation for their losses. In particular, when injuries cause significant intangible effects, victims caught unprepared often get cheated out of compensation that should rightfully be theirs.

The team at Searcy Denney Tallahassee knows how to stand up to insurance companies and overcome the challenges they introduce so that we can recover full compensation for our clients who have suffered heartbreaking injuries such as scarring and disfigurement. We invite you to contact us for a complimentary, no-obligation consultation to learn about the ways we can assist in your recovery and support the fight for justice in your case. To get started, call us at 888-549-7011 or contact us online.