Side-Impact Collision — $500,000 Result

The most common car accident injuries fall into a handful of categories: whiplash and soft tissue damage, head and brain trauma, spinal and disc injuries, broken bones, and internal organ damage. Some announce themselves at the scene. Others stay quiet for hours or days.

The catastrophic injuries process is the sequence a claim follows when an injury causes permanent impairment, long-term loss of function, or lifelong disability. It moves through stabilization, investigation, valuation of lifetime damages, and resolution by settlement or trial. The reason it gets its own process is simple: a permanent injury changes what has to be proven and how long it takes to prove it.