Amputations
The Amputee Coalition of America estimates that there are 900,000 traumatic amputation survivors in the United States with an estimated 83,250 new traumatic amputees every year. SM&B is well-equipped to handle both the complexities of an amputation victim’s legal case and the related consultations with leading medical experts to understand the client’s treatment and future medical, therapy, and rehabilitation needs.
As one of Pennsylvania’s leading catastrophic injury firms, SM&B has extensive experience handling claims that involve the tragic loss of limbs. We represent both injured people who sustained traumatic amputation as part of the accident or incident that caused their injuries, and those whose limb was amputated as a result of the necessary medical treatment of their injuries. Our representation of amputation victims extends across several of our practice areas, including:
- Industrial Accidents: Many clients have suffered loss of limbs because of industrial machinery and workplace accidents. Given the disparity in size, weight, and power, a worker’s limbs are no match for the machines in a factory, plant, or construction site. Even electrical injuries can lead to medical amputation when the limb suffers an injury that cannot be repaired.
- Product Defects: Both industrial and consumer products can lead to traumatic or necessary medical amputation. From hand tools to household appliances, SM&B has represented many clients who suffered amputations from products that are used every day.
- Guardrail Injuries: SM&B has even represented clients who have lost limbs as a result of injuries caused by the very products intended to protect drivers – highway guardrails. SM&B is experienced in litigating these complex cases.
Many of our clients who sustain catastrophic injuries also suffer from amputation of limbs as a result. Whether caused by industrial equipment, consumer products or even highway guardrails, amputation victims are forever and irreversibly changed. Even though we cannot restore our clients physically, we work tirelessly to hold responsible parties accountable.
Robert J. Mongeluzzi
Unmatched Results
SM&B has secured numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for its amputee clients, including:
- $16,300,000 – Ironworker Sustains Leg Amputation after Crushing Accident
- $10,000,000 – Cement Mason Sustains Leg Amputation after Motor Vehicle Accident
- $8,000,000 – Man Suffers Right Leg Amputation after Run Over by Concrete Truck
- $7,500,000 – Man Suffers Single-Leg Amputation in Workplace Injury
- $2,600,000 – Man Suffers Bilateral Leg Amputation in Industrial Accident
- $1,000,000 – Worker Hand Amputated by Workplace Machinery
- $16,300,000An ironworker whose right leg was amputated and left foot crushed when a 3,000-pound granite base stone toppled over onto him during the renovation ...Read Story
- $9,000,000A man whose leg was amputated after being run over by a forklift twice has settled for $9 million in his lawsuit against a series of companies and ...Read Story
- $8,000,000The 31-year-old plaintiff filed this negligence action against the driver of an 80,000-pound concrete truck as well as the driver's employer after ...Read Story
- $8,000,000A Brazilian man who was paralyzed from the waist down after falling 18 feet from the house frame he was constructing will be paid $8 million in a ...Read Story
- $13,000,000A crane operator who lost one leg and suffered serious injuries to the other in an accident during the initial phase of construction of the Harrah's ...Read Story
Unmatched Experience
SM&B brings decades of experience to its accident cases involving consumer products and industrial equipment. Because amputees require a lifetime of medical care for their injury, SM&B has unrivaled experience in ensuring that all of its client’s future medical treatment, therapy, and rehabilitation are considered and accounted for.
Unmatched Compensation
As with all its cases, SM&B casts a wide net for potential defendants in any of its amputation cases. SM&B attorneys work tirelessly to help you get all the compensation to which you may be entitled. This includes not just future medical treatment, but also payments for pain and suffering, emotional trauma, past medical expenses, lost income, and future earnings.
If you or a family member has been injured in an accident that resulted in an amputation, SM&B is committed to obtaining all the results you need and deserve.