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Broken Bones/Fractures
A person who has had serious broken bone injuries in a New York car accident may be faced with life-long disability, loss of wages, physical therapy/rehabilitation, and catastrophic medical bills. In a recent case, Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a client who sustained severe broken bone injuries when her car was struck by a school bus. Our client suffered fractures of her neck, thigh, humerus, hip and tibia/fibia. Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald obtained a $5,480,000 verdict. To contact a lawyer at Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, call toll-free at 1-800-323-9900 or submit our contact form.
Broken Bones/Fractures – Car Accident Lawsuit for Damages
Damages are monetary compensation for injury and loss. In the case of the client who sustained severe broken bone injuries, the breakdown of damages was as follows:
- Past Pain and Suffering - $1,800,000
- Past Medical Costs - $230,000
- Past Lost Earnings - $150,000
- Future Pain and Suffering - $1,600,000
- Future Medical Costs - $500,000
- Future Lost Earnings - $1,200,000
- Loss of Service (for Spouse) - $250,000
Evidence of Broken Bones/Fractures – Neck, Spine, Humerus, Femur, Tibia, Fibia
It is vital to contact a lawyer at Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald as soon as possible after an accident where the injuries involve broken bones. Over time, valuable evidence can be lost or compromised. At Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, once we are retained to represent a victim of a car accident, we immediately work to collect and preserve evidence regarding the accident and the broken bone injuries our client has sustained.
Our lawyers have had extensive experience successfully presenting complex medical and economic evidence to a judge and jury. In the case of the client in the case referred to above, the demonstrative evidence used included anatomical charts showing the cervical spine, the femur, the hip, the humerus, and the tibia/fibia, x-rays, and blow-ups of the figures used by the economist called by Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald as an expert witness. If you or a family member has sustained serious broken bone injuries after a car accident, call Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald toll-free at 1-800-323-9900 or submit our consultation form.
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Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, P.C. is a firm of trial lawyers based in New York with a national practice. We are capable of representing clients in every state of the United States. In New York our trial attorneys appear daily in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens and Staten Island (Richmond County). We also appear regularly in the counties of Westchester (Yonkers), Suffolk, Nassau and Orange. We have of counsel attorneys covering Rockland County, Dutchess County, Albany, Buffalo and all other New York counties. In New Jersey we have of counsel attorneys covering the counties of Passaic, Bergen, Hudson, Essex, (Newark), Union, Middlesex, Somerset, Mercer, (Trenton) Camden and Monmouth. We also have a network of of counsel attorneys with whom we work throughout the United States.
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