Injury Claims for Truck Accidents Resulting in Vital Organ Damage

 Posted on June 24, 2022 in Truck Accidents

The forces placed on a human body in a severe truck collision often cause catastrophic injuries. Injuries to vital organs can be especially dangerous and are often deadly. Extensive, long-term medical care is usually needed in order for people with vital organ injuries to survive. Those who do survive their injuries may suffer from medical complications and reduced function for the rest of their lives.

If you or a loved one suffered an injury to a vital organ or another catastrophic injury in a commercial truck crash, speak to a truck accident injury attorney to discuss your legal options. You may be able to recover financial compensation.

Injuries to Organs Can Result in Disability or Death

Commercial truck crashes may be caused by driver error, issues with the truck, or almost countless other factors. In an instant, a large truck crash can change the course of a person’s life. Internal organ injuries usually require surgery and substantial follow-up care. Vital organs are those organs that are essential to life. They include:

• Brain – Brain injuries can lead to severe physical, mental, and emotional consequences. Many traumatic brain injuries cause loss of functioning that is so severe, the person can never again live independently.

• Heart – We usually think about heart damage in the context of heart disease. However, car accidents involving blunt force trauma or penetrating injuries to the heart can also cause a heart attack or other life-threatening heart problems.

• Kidneys – Car crashes can injure kidneys and ureters in a way that causes chronic medical problems including urinary issues and electrolyte abnormalities.

• Liver – Blunt trauma hepatic injury can cause life-threatening internal bleeding. Emergency surgery may be needed to save the car accident victim’s life.

• Lungs – Lungs may be injured directly by flying debris or blunt force in an accident. Inhalation of toxic fumes or smoke from a crash may also cause lung damage.   

Bringing a Claim Against a Truck Driver or Truck Company

Truck drivers and trucking companies may be liable for damages caused in a truck crash. Victims may be entitled to compensation for emergency medical care, diagnostic tests, surgery, follow-up care, medications, and more. Compensation for lost income, lost earning capacity caused by a disability, property damage, and non-economic damages may also be available.  

Contact a Joliet Organ Damage Lawyer

Reach out to the skilled Orland Park truck accident attorneys at Schwartz Injury Law for help if you or a loved one sustained damage to vital organs in a crash. Call us today at 708-888-2160 and set up a free, no-obligation consultation.

Sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3021827/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898124/