If a Shreveport wreck or fall left someone in your family paralyzed by a spinal cord injury, living with a traumatic brain injury, or unable to work or live on their own, we build the file around a life-care plan. That plan projects the care the injured person will need for the rest of their life, and we build it before an insurer treats the injury as a stack of bills that ends at discharge.
The injured go to Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport on Kings Highway, to Willis-Knighton, or to CHRISTUS Highland. The Shreveport Police Department writes the report inside the city, and the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office writes it in the parish; we order it from whichever agency responded. Trey Morris Injury Lawyers is at 509 Milam Street downtown, across the street from the Caddo Parish Courthouse at 501 Texas Street, where Caddo suits can be filed and tried in the First Judicial District Court.
Results for Louisiana Clients
- $409 MillionWrongful Death
A tragic case where an impaired driver of a commercial vehicle ran a red light, then collided with our client, causing serious bodily injury to the mother and the loss of life of her daughter.
- $49 MillionMotor Vehicle Accident
An impaired driver of a stolen vehicle driving the wrong way collided with our client head-on, resulting in brain injury and multiple broken bones.
- $32,195,000Industrial / Workplace
Failure to maintain proper safety protocols led to an explosion at an industrial plant causing a series of catastrophic injuries from broken bones, burns, spinal injury, and mental anguish.
- $31.5 MillionIndustrial / Workplace
Brain and spinal injuries followed an oil-field company failing to maintain equipment and provide a safe work site.
- $17.25 MillionCommercial Vehicle Accident
Client was struck head-on by a disconnected load of an 18-wheeler that crossed the median causing broken bones and amputation.
- $13 MillionCommercial Vehicle Accident
On the interstate, an 18-wheeler failed to yield right of way then made an unsafe lane change causing the accident which resulted in major bone breaks, damaged organs, and ultimately a leg amputation.
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes; each case is decided on its own facts.
What Is a Catastrophic Injury?
A catastrophic injury is one that permanently changes what a person can do: hold a job, care for themselves, live independently. The difference from a standard personal injury case is scope. A broken wrist heals. A severed spinal cord does not.
spinal cord injury
Damage to the spinal cord causing partial or complete loss of movement (paralysis), sensation, or function below the injury site. Doctors classify these injuries by level (cervical, thoracic, lumbar) and by whether they are complete or incomplete.
traumatic brain injury
TBI. Normal brain function disrupted by a blow, a jolt, or something that penetrates the skull. Severity runs from mild concussion to permanent cognitive impairment.
The injuries here are spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, amputation, severe burns, and broken bones. Each produces ongoing costs and permanent limits that Louisiana’s damages framework recognizes.
Ask the treating physician this week for the discharge summary and the imaging reports and keep them in one folder. A life-care planner starts there.
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How Catastrophic Injuries Happen in Shreveport
Where this town sits and how it earns its living decide which injuries come through the door. I-20, I-49, and US-80 carry heavy commercial truck traffic every day. When a loaded 18-wheeler hits a passenger vehicle at highway speed, the outcome is rarely minor. Car accidents and truck accidents on those corridors are a large share of the catastrophic cases in Caddo Parish.
Northwest Louisiana’s energy sector is its own category. Oilfield accidents along the industrial corridor through the Port of Shreveport-Bossier produce crush injuries, falls from height, and blast exposure. Construction site accidents downtown and in Bossier, DeSoto, and Webster parishes repeat the same hazards: scaffolding collapses, falling objects, equipment that fails under load.
Premises liability and product liability fill out the rest. A slip and fall on a commercial floor can injure a spinal cord as badly as a crash on the LA-3132 Inner Loop, and defective equipment has taken limbs and left permanent neurological damage in Caddo Parish workplaces. The mechanism decides what evidence you need, and knowing the road and the operator shortens the time it takes to get it.
If it happened at a job site or a store, write down this week what you remember: the scene, the equipment, who else was standing there.
Establishing Liability for a Catastrophic Injury Claim
Liability comes down to three pieces: a duty of care, a breach of that duty, and a direct line from the breach to the injury. Each piece takes its own evidence.
Duty depends on the setting. Every driver on Youree Drive owes one to everyone else on Youree Drive. Stores owe one to the people walking their aisles under La. R.S. 9:2800.6, the merchant liability statute. Employers owe one to employees and sometimes to third parties harmed by what their workers do.
Breach takes particular forms here. A driver texting on Bert Kouns Industrial Loop violates La. R.S. 32:59, the handheld device prohibition. An employer who lets equipment go unmaintained may violate OSHA standards and Louisiana worker protection statutes. Neither violation decides the case by itself, and both are powerful evidence of breach.
Causation ties the negligent act to the catastrophic outcome, through medical records, accident reconstruction, and expert testimony.
comparative fault
A legal rule that reduces what you collect by your percentage of fault.
Louisiana applies it under La. C.C. Art. 2323. For accidents on or after January 1, 2026, the system is modified: at 50% or less your damages are reduced by your share, and at 51% or more you collect nothing. That 51% bar is a hard cutoff, not a sliding scale. For earlier accidents, fault reduces what you collect but does not bar recovery. Adjusters build the whole defense around pushing the injured person past half, which is why the fault file gets built early and out of documents rather than argument.
respondeat superior
Latin for let the master answer. A doctrine holding an employer liable for the negligent acts an employee commits within the scope of employment.
Naming every liable party moves the number most. It means pulling vehicle ownership records, employment relationships, product supply chains, and property records. The person who caused the accident is often not the only defendant with legal exposure. Under respondeat superior (La. C.C. Art. 2320), a commercial truck driver’s negligence reaches the trucking company directly. A defect brings in the manufacturer. More defendants means more policies, and policy limits decide whether a life-care plan ever gets funded.
Give us the date, the location, and the names this week. Once the facts give an honest basis, we send a preservation letter covering the engine control module and the site video, before either is overwritten.
Damages Available in a Shreveport Catastrophic Injury Case
Damages split in two. Economic damages are calculable: documented costs and projected future expenses you can price with records and expert analysis. Non-economic damages are not. They are real harm, and setting a fair value on them takes argument rather than arithmetic.
loss of earning capacity
The difference between what you could have earned over your working lifetime and what you can earn now after the injury.
Economic damages start with lost wages from the date of injury, documented with pay stubs and employer records. Then comes loss of earning capacity, often the largest single item in a catastrophic injury case. A construction worker with a spinal cord injury who cannot return to physical labor has lost decades of earning. An office worker whose TBI affects memory and attention may lose the career entirely.
Medical costs, from the emergency department through hospitalization and surgery, are economic damages too.
loss of consortium
A claim by the injured person’s close family for the loss of companionship, affection, and support caused by the injured person’s condition. Louisiana gives it to the same relatives who could bring a wrongful death claim, starting with the spouse and children. It is separate from the injured person’s own claims.
Non-economic damages cover physical pain, emotional anguish, disfigurement, and loss of enjoyment of life. Punitive damages are available in Louisiana only when a statute authorizes them, such as a crash caused by an intoxicated driver who acted with reckless disregard (La. C.C. Art. 2315.4). An impaired commercial driver who got behind the wheel anyway is the clearest example.
Settlement value in a catastrophic case is built, not estimated. A life-care planner works with the treating physicians to project total care needs across the remaining lifespan. A vocational rehabilitation expert measures what work, if any, is still possible. An economist reduces both projections to present value.
Start a running log this week of every dollar out of pocket: mileage to Kings Highway, parking, pharmacy, equipment rental. Nobody can reconstruct those receipts later.
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Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care After a Catastrophic Injury
Healing from a catastrophic injury is not a straight line. Setbacks happen. Surgeries get added. Care plans change. Each of those changes moves the long-term cost projection that carries the damages number in your case.
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and Willis-Knighton both run inpatient rehabilitation programs for spinal cord and traumatic brain injury patients. Rehabilitation usually runs across several disciplines: physical therapy to restore movement and strength, occupational therapy to rebuild the ordinary tasks of a day, speech-language pathology for the communication deficits that follow a TBI, and cognitive rehabilitation for memory, attention, and executive function. How long each therapy runs and how hard it is pushed feeds straight into the life-care plan that sets the future medical expense figure.
Home modification and assistive technology are compensable, and the life-care plan is where they get documented. Ramps, widened doorways, a hospital bed, a wheelchair, a stair lift, a communication device: each has a price and a replacement interval the planner projects across the lifespan. These are itemized costs tied to the medical evidence in your file, not speculation.
If the discharge planner offered a home evaluation, take it this week and keep the written report.
Louisiana’s Prescriptive Period for Catastrophic Injury Claims
prescriptive period
Louisiana’s term for statute of limitations: the legal deadline to file a lawsuit.
You have two years from the day you were hurt to file suit (La. C.C. art. 3493.1). That is a shorter window than most people assume, and it does not pause while someone is in rehabilitation or wait for a final diagnosis. Skid marks get paved over. Witnesses move. Store and terminal video writes over itself in a matter of weeks.
There is a discovery rule exception. Where the injury was not apparent at the time, the clock starts when you discovered it or reasonably should have. That comes up more in toxic exposure and occupational disease than in acute trauma.
Claims against government entities, including the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development for a road defect, follow different rules. They need no pre-suit notice, but service has to be requested within 90 days of filing (La. R.S. 13:5107), the agency is liable only if it knew or should have known about the defect (La. R.S. 9:2800), and damages other than medical care, lost earnings, and property damage are capped at $500,000 per person (La. R.S. 13:5106).
Missing the prescriptive period ends most claims: no court hears a suit filed after the deadline, no matter how clean the fault is.
How Insurance Companies Handle Catastrophic Injury Claims
An adjuster on a catastrophic claim works toward one number: the lowest one that closes the file. That interest runs opposite to yours, and the methods repeat often enough to name.
Denying liability is the opening position in many of these cases. The carrier argues the injured person caused it, or that the negligence is not proven. Disputing injury severity is the second track. Insurers retain their own physicians to read the records and say the injuries pre-existed the accident or are exaggerated. Those are not independent opinions. They are paid opinions written for litigation.
Early offers are common. They arrive before the life-care plan exists, before the vocational assessment is done, before anyone has priced the next thirty years. An offer that looks substantial in the third month can be a fraction of what the case is worth once future costs are calculated, and the money runs out years before the care does.
Delay is the other tool: slow answers, the same document requested three times, the file reassigned. All of it builds pressure to settle before the case is built.
Do not admit fault, and do not give a recorded statement to any adjuster before you talk to a lawyer. Statements made before anyone knows the full extent of the injury get used later to shrink or deny the claim. It is one of the most common ways a catastrophic case loses value in its first month.
contingency fee
A fee paid as a percentage of what the client collects, and only if the client collects.
Against those tactics we retain independent medical experts, a life-care planner, and a vocational rehabilitation specialist, and document the claim to the number the file supports. We work on a contingency fee: nothing upfront, the percentage agreed in writing before we start, and no attorney fee unless the case resolves in your favor.
If an adjuster has already called, write down the date, the name, and what was asked before you answer anything else.
What to Do Immediately After a Catastrophic Injury in Shreveport
What happens in the first hours and days decides what evidence exists later.
Get emergency medical care first. Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport operates a Level I trauma center, the highest designation, for the most severe injuries in northwest Louisiana. Care documented at the right level from the beginning creates a record that matches the injury.
Document the scene if you are physically able. Photographs, witness names, contact information, and video of the conditions are evidence, and they may not exist a week later. If you cannot do it yourself, ask someone who can.
Keep every medical record, bill, and letter from an employer or an insurer. Bring in a catastrophic injury attorney early.
Pick one person in the family this week to hold the folder and take the calls. Split four ways, records go missing and deadlines get assumed away.
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Results Trey Morris Injury Lawyers Has Recovered for Catastrophic Injury Clients
Trey Morris Injury Lawyers has recovered significant amounts across catastrophic injury cases involving impaired commercial drivers, oilfield safety violations, highway and 18-wheeler crashes, and premises liability. The results include wrongful death and spinal and brain injuries. View our case results.
The firm has recovered hundreds of millions for clients in Louisiana across thousands of cases. The attorneys hold AV Preeminent ratings from Martindale-Hubbell and recognition from Super Lawyers. Clients across Shreveport, Covington, Lake Charles, and northwest Louisiana have left more than 2,815 five-star Google reviews. Read the results before you decide who to call.