Catastrophic Injury Lawyer Serving Massachusetts and Georgia

Catastrophic Injury Lawyer

About Attorney Robert J. Hartigan

Catastrophic injury cases have been a significant part of Robert J. Hartigan’s personal injury practice, including claims involving traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, serious orthopedic trauma, and other life-changing harm. As the founding attorney of Lionhart Injury Law, Robert has recovered more than $15 million for injured clients, including a $6,000,000 result arising from a commercial trucking accident, a $1,100,000 premises liability result, and a $650,000 recovery for a car accident victim who suffered a traumatic brain injury. Robert is licensed in Massachusetts, Georgia, and New Hampshire, as well as before the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. His professional recognition includes selection as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for Massachusetts (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024) and for Georgia (2026), recognition as a Boston Magazine Top Lawyer in 2021, selection to the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 in Massachusetts, and an Avvo Rating of 10.0 (Superb). Through offices in Boston, Atlanta, and Decatur, Robert represents people facing the long-term consequences of catastrophic injuries throughout Massachusetts and Georgia.

A catastrophic injury changes more than your medical condition. It can change whether you can return to your career, live independently, drive, care for your children, participate in activities you once enjoyed, or manage ordinary parts of daily life without assistance. The financial consequences can continue for decades.

That makes a catastrophic injury claim fundamentally different from a case involving an injury expected to heal. The question is not simply what your medical bills and lost wages are today. A properly developed claim may need to determine what medical treatment you will require years from now, whether you will ever regain your previous earning capacity, what assistance or accommodations you may need, and how permanent limitations will affect the rest of your life.

I am Robert J. Hartigan, founding attorney of Lionhart Injury Law. We represent people with catastrophic injuries throughout Massachusetts and Georgia and build these cases around both the immediate losses and the long-term consequences of the injury.

If you or someone you love has suffered a life-changing injury because of another person’s or company’s negligence, call Lionhart Injury Law at 1-855-343-0997 for a free consultation.

What Is Considered a Catastrophic Injury?

There is no single injury that automatically defines every catastrophic injury claim. What separates a catastrophic injury from many other serious injuries is usually the permanence and magnitude of its consequences.

A fracture that heals completely may still be painful and expensive, but it may not permanently change a person’s ability to work or live independently. A complex fracture that requires multiple surgeries, causes nerve damage, permanently restricts mobility, and prevents someone from returning to a physical occupation presents a very different picture.

Catastrophic injuries commonly involve permanent disability, substantial loss of physical or cognitive function, significant disfigurement, or long-term medical and personal-care needs. Examples of common catastrophic injuries include:

  • Traumatic brain injuries;
  • Spinal cord injuries and paralysis;
  • Severe burn injuries;
  • Amputations;
  • Permanent vision or hearing loss;
  • Complex fractures resulting in permanent impairment;
  • Severe nerve damage;
  • Multiple traumatic injuries affecting different parts of the body; and
  • Other injuries that permanently limit a person’s ability to work, function independently, or participate in everyday life.

The legal significance is the future. A catastrophic injury claim may need to account for medical treatment, rehabilitation, lost earning capacity, assistance, equipment, and other losses that will continue for years or potentially for the remainder of the injured person’s life.

What Types of Catastrophic Injuries Does Lionhart Injury Law Handle?

Catastrophic injuries can affect virtually every aspect of the body. Lionhart Injury Law represents clients with serious and permanent injuries throughout Massachusetts and Georgia, including the following.

How Can a Traumatic Brain Injury Affect the Rest of Your Life?

A traumatic brain injury can affect memory, concentration, speech, executive functioning, personality, emotional regulation, balance, motor function, and the ability to work.

One of the challenges with a TBI claim is that the most disabling symptoms may not be visible to other people. A person can appear physically recovered while continuing to struggle with cognitive fatigue, memory problems, headaches, sensory issues, behavioral changes, or an inability to perform the same work they did before the accident.

I recovered $650,000 for a client who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. Serious TBI claims may require neurological, neuropsychological, vocational, and other evidence to establish how the injury affects the person’s functioning over time.

Visit Our Traumatic Brain Injury Practice Page to learn more about our representation in TBI matters.

When Can a Concussion Become a Long-Term Injury?

A concussion is a form of traumatic brain injury, and not every concussion resolves within days or weeks. Some people develop persistent symptoms that interfere with concentration, memory, sleep, balance, work, school, and everyday activities. When those problems continue, the consequences can become far more significant than the word “concussion” may suggest.

Post-concussion claims require careful documentation of symptoms and functional limitations, particularly when routine diagnostic imaging does not fully explain what the injured person is experiencing.

What Are the Long-Term Consequences of a Spinal Cord Injury?

Damage to the spinal cord can result in permanent neurological impairment ranging from reduced sensation and mobility to partial or complete paralysis.

A serious spinal cord injury can affect far more than movement. Depending on the location and severity of the injury, a person may require extensive rehabilitation, mobility equipment, attendant care, modifications to a home or vehicle, additional surgeries, and ongoing treatment for secondary medical complications.

Because these needs can continue throughout a person’s lifetime, accurately evaluating future care is a critical part of a spinal cord injury claim.

Why Can Severe Burn Injuries Require Lifelong Care?

Severe burns can damage skin, nerves, muscles, and other tissue and may require multiple surgeries, skin grafts, rehabilitation, scar management, and reconstructive procedures.

The consequences are not exclusively physical. Visible scarring and disfigurement can profoundly affect a person’s confidence, relationships, employment, and emotional well-being.

Serious burn injury claims can arise from vehicle fires, construction accidents, dangerous properties, defective products, electrical accidents, explosions, and other incidents.

When Can a Shoulder Injury Become Catastrophic?

Shoulder injuries can significantly restrict a person’s ability to lift, reach, carry, perform repetitive tasks, or work overhead.

Rotator cuff tears, labral injuries, fractures, dislocations, nerve damage, and other serious shoulder injuries may require surgery and prolonged rehabilitation. For someone whose livelihood depends on physical labor, even a limitation affecting one shoulder can have significant consequences for future earning capacity.

How Can a Serious Leg Fracture Cause Permanent Disability?

High-force accidents can cause complex fractures of the femur, tibia, fibula, patella, and other structures of the lower extremities.

Treatment may require internal fixation with plates, rods, screws, or other hardware, followed by extended periods of restricted weight-bearing and rehabilitation. Some injuries result in chronic pain, altered gait, reduced range of motion, weakness, or the need for future procedures.

When those limitations permanently affect mobility or employment, a leg fracture can become a life-changing injury.

What Long-Term Problems Can an Arm Fracture Cause?

Complex arm fractures involving the humerus, radius, ulna, wrist, or surrounding structures can cause more than temporary pain.

Nerve injuries, reduced grip strength, limited range of motion, weakness, chronic pain, and loss of fine motor function can affect someone’s ability to perform both occupational and everyday tasks. The consequences can be especially significant for people who work in skilled trades, healthcare, construction, manufacturing, or other occupations requiring regular use of their arms and hands.

What Types of Accidents Can Cause Catastrophic Injuries?

Catastrophic injuries can result from many forms of negligence. What these accidents often have in common is significant force, trauma, crushing, fire, or injury to a particularly vulnerable part of the body.

Why Do Commercial Truck Accidents Cause Catastrophic Injuries?

Commercial trucks can cause devastating injuries because of their size and weight relative to passenger vehicles.

A collision involving a tractor-trailer, semi-truck, delivery vehicle, or other large commercial vehicle can cause traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord damage, complex fractures, crush injuries, burns, amputations, and multiple-system trauma.

Truck accident claims can also involve issues that do not arise in an ordinary car accident, including the conduct of the motor carrier, maintenance practices, driver qualifications, hours of service, cargo loading, commercial insurance, and federal trucking regulations.

My largest recovery, $6,000,000, arose from a commercial trucking accident involving catastrophic injuries.

How Can a Car Accident Cause a Life-Changing Injury?

Head-on collisions, rollovers, side-impact crashes, highway-speed collisions, and other serious car accidents can generate enough force to permanently injure the brain, spinal cord, bones, joints, nerves, and internal organs.

The seriousness of an injury is not always apparent from photographs of the vehicles. The direction of impact, occupant position, restraint systems, biomechanics of the collision, and other factors can affect the injuries sustained.

When a car accident produces permanent impairment, the claim needs to account for more than the emergency room visit and immediate recovery period.

Why Are Motorcycle Accidents More Likely to Cause Severe Injuries?

Motorcyclists have far less physical protection than occupants of passenger vehicles. A rider may experience the initial impact with another vehicle followed by contact with the roadway, another vehicle, or a fixed object.

Serious motorcycle crashes can result in traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, severe road rash, fractures, nerve damage, internal injuries, and permanent disability.

When those injuries affect future employment, mobility, independence, or medical needs, the damages analysis must account for those long-term consequences.

Why Are Pedestrians Vulnerable to Catastrophic Injuries?

A pedestrian has virtually no physical protection when struck by a moving vehicle.

Even a collision at a relatively modest speed can cause brain trauma, spinal injuries, fractures, internal injuries, and other life-threatening or permanently disabling conditions. Higher-speed impacts can produce multiple injuries requiring extensive hospitalization and rehabilitation.

Catastrophic pedestrian injury claims may involve significant future medical expenses and loss of earning capacity in addition to the immediate costs of treatment.

What Catastrophic Injuries Can Occur in Construction Accidents?

Construction sites contain hazards capable of producing some of the most severe workplace injuries.

Falls from elevations, equipment failures, electrical incidents, trench collapses, falling objects, crushing accidents, and other events can cause traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord damage, severe burns, amputations, and multiple fractures.

Workers’ compensation and third-party construction injury claims are different. Depending on how an accident occurred and who was responsible, an injured worker may have rights beyond workers’ compensation when a negligent third party contributed to the accident.

Can a Defective Product Cause a Catastrophic Injury?

Yes. Dangerous products can cause serious injuries when their design, manufacture, warnings, or other legally actionable defects contribute to an accident.

Potential claims can involve vehicles and vehicle components, industrial equipment, machinery, consumer products, and other products.

Product liability cases can be technically complex because establishing what went wrong may require engineering analysis, product testing, manufacturing records, design information, expert testimony, or other specialized evidence.

Can Dangerous Property Conditions Cause Catastrophic Injuries?

Yes. Falls from heights, defective stairs or railings, structural failures, fires, and other dangerous property conditions can result in permanent injuries. Attorney Hartigan has recovered $1,100,000 in a premises liability case involving a defective railing and $1,000,000 in a staircase accident case.

A serious premises liability claim may require determining who controlled the property, what caused the dangerous condition, what the responsible party knew or should have known, and whether reasonable inspection, maintenance, or repair could have prevented the accident.

Why Are Catastrophic Injury Claims Different From Other Personal Injury Cases?

A catastrophic injury case requires the damages analysis to extend well beyond what has already happened. Someone with a permanent disability may face another 20, 30, 40, or more years of medical treatment and financial loss. A settlement that appears substantial today may be inadequate if it fails to account for those future needs.

Several components can become particularly important.

Why Is a Life Care Plan Important in a Catastrophic Injury Case?

A life care plan can help identify and quantify the medical and support needs a person is reasonably expected to have in the future.

Depending on the injury, a life care plan may address:

  • Future surgeries;
  • Physician and specialist care;
  • Physical and occupational therapy;
  • Prescription medications;
  • Medical equipment;
  • Wheelchairs and mobility devices;
  • Prosthetics;
  • In-home assistance;
  • Home modifications;
  • Accessible transportation;
  • Future diagnostic testing; and
  • Treatment of anticipated complications.

The goal is not to speculate about future expenses. It is to use medical evidence and appropriate expert analysis to identify reasonably anticipated needs and their costs.

How Is Lost Earning Capacity Calculated After a Catastrophic Injury?

Past lost wages address income that has already been lost. Lost earning capacity addresses something different: the effect an injury may have on the person’s ability to earn income in the future. Someone may be able to return to work but no longer perform the same occupation, work the same number of hours, advance in a career, or earn at the same level.

Depending on the case, vocational professionals and economists may evaluate the person’s education, employment history, skills, physical and cognitive limitations, anticipated career trajectory, wages, benefits, and remaining work life.

For a younger person who permanently loses the ability to pursue a career, the financial impact can extend for decades.

What Medical Experts May Be Needed in a Catastrophic Injury Case?

The experts needed depend on the nature of the injury and the disputed issues.

A catastrophic injury case may involve:

  • Neurologists;
  • Neurosurgeons;
  • Orthopedic specialists;
  • Physiatrists;
  • Neuropsychologists;
  • Burn specialists;
  • Rehabilitation professionals;
  • Vocational rehabilitation experts;
  • Life care planners;
  • Economists; and
  • Accident reconstruction or engineering experts.

Not every case requires every type of expert. The goal is to use the appropriate medical, vocational, economic, and technical evidence to explain what happened and what the injury means for the client’s future. As a catastrophic injury attorney with nearly a decade of legal practice, I regularly work with experts in seeking to ensure that my clients receive the maximum compensation to which they are rightfully entitled.

Should I Accept an Insurance Settlement Before I Know the Full Extent of My Injuries?

A settlement should account for the losses being released. That becomes particularly important after a catastrophic injury because future treatment, permanent limitations, and loss of earning capacity may not be fully understood during the early stages of recovery.

Once a claim is settled and a release is signed, the injured person generally cannot reopen the claim simply because the injury later proves more expensive or disabling than expected.

Before evaluating a final settlement, I want to understand the medical prognosis, reasonably anticipated future care, ability to return to work, and other long-term consequences that can be established from the evidence.

Why Does Trial Preparation Matter in a Catastrophic Injury Case?

Catastrophic injury claims can involve substantial damages, which gives defendants and insurance companies significant financial incentives to contest liability, causation, the extent of the injuries, and future losses.

A case therefore needs to be developed with litigation in mind.

That means preserving evidence, identifying the appropriate defendants, obtaining the necessary records, working with qualified experts when needed, documenting damages, and being prepared to explain complex medical and financial issues clearly to a jury.

I prepare serious injury cases with the understanding that litigation may be necessary if a fair resolution cannot be reached, and I will not hesitate to take a case to trial if a full and fair settlement cannot be reached.

What Compensation Can I Recover After a Catastrophic Injury?

The damages available depend on the jurisdiction, cause of the injury, liability, and individual circumstances of the case.

A catastrophic injury claim may include both economic and non-economic damages.

What Economic Damages Can Be Recovered?

Economic damages address measurable financial losses caused by an injury and may include:

  • Past medical expenses: Hospitalization, surgery, physician care, therapy, medication, diagnostic testing, and other treatment already received.
  • Future medical expenses: Reasonably anticipated medical care that will be required because of the injury.
  • Lost wages: Income lost during hospitalization, treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery.
  • Loss of earning capacity: The long-term financial effect of an injury that limits or eliminates the person’s ability to earn income.
  • In-home or residential care: Assistance required because the injured person can no longer safely perform certain activities independently.
  • Home modifications: Ramps, accessible bathrooms, widened doorways, lifts, and other modifications necessitated by a disability.
  • Vehicle modifications: Accessible vehicles or modifications necessary to accommodate mobility limitations.
  • Medical and assistive equipment: Wheelchairs, prosthetics, communication devices, and other necessary technology or equipment.

The future portion of these damages can be particularly significant in a catastrophic injury case.

What Non-Economic Damages Can Be Recovered in a Georgia or Massachusetts Catastrophic Injury Case?

A permanent injury affects more than a person’s finances. Depending on the applicable law and circumstances, non-economic damages may address:

  • Physical pain and suffering;
  • Emotional distress;
  • Permanent disability;
  • Disfigurement and scarring;
  • Loss of enjoyment of life; and
  • Other personal consequences of living with a serious injury.

A spouse may also have a separate loss-of-consortium claim in appropriate circumstances under applicable state law.

Can Punitive Damages Be Available in a Catastrophic Injury Case?

Potentially, but punitive damages are not available simply because an injury is severe.

They depend on the defendant’s conduct and the law of the state governing the claim. Georgia and Massachusetts have different standards governing when punitive or exemplary damages may be recovered. I evaluate punitive damages separately from compensatory damages and pursue them only when the facts and applicable law provide a basis for doing so.

How Is the Value of a Catastrophic Injury Claim Calculated?

There is no standard catastrophic injury settlement amount. Two people can suffer injuries with the same diagnosis but experience dramatically different financial and personal consequences. A brain injury that prevents a surgeon from returning to medicine, for example, presents different economic losses from the same diagnosis in someone who can eventually resume their previous employment.

Factors that can affect the value of a catastrophic injury claim include:

  • The severity and permanence of the injury;
  • Past and future medical expenses;
  • Whether additional surgeries are expected;
  • The need for rehabilitation or long-term care;
  • The person’s age and life expectancy;
  • Past lost income;
  • Future loss of earning capacity;
  • The ability to live independently;
  • Permanent physical or cognitive limitations;
  • Scarring or disfigurement;
  • Pain and suffering;
  • Available insurance coverage and other potential sources of recovery;
  • The strength of the liability evidence; and
  • Any comparative negligence or other defenses.

The goal is to evaluate what the injury has actually taken from the individual, both now and in the future, rather than assigning a value based solely on the name of the diagnosis.

How Are Catastrophic Injury Laws Different in Massachusetts and Georgia?

Lionhart Injury Law handles catastrophic injury cases in both Massachusetts and Georgia, but important legal rules differ between the two states.

What Laws Apply to Catastrophic Injury Claims in Massachusetts?

Massachusetts generally provides three years to bring an action of tort for bodily injury under M.G.L. c. 260, § 2A, although different rules or exceptions can affect particular claims. For example, if an injury victim is a minor, the statute of limitations may be tolled until the individual’s eighteenth birthday.

Massachusetts also follows modified comparative negligence under M.G.L. c. 231, § 85. An injured person can recover when their negligence is not greater than the combined negligence of the person or persons from whom recovery is sought. The damages are reduced according to the injured person’s percentage of negligence. If the claimant’s negligence is greater than 50%, recovery is barred.

Motor vehicle claims also involve Massachusetts’ no-fault insurance system. Personal Injury Protection, or PIP, can provide benefits for certain medical expenses and lost income regardless of who caused the collision, subject to Massachusetts law and the applicable policy. Massachusetts also imposes a statutory threshold on claims for pain and suffering arising from motor vehicle accidents, although several alternative statutory grounds can satisfy that threshold.

A catastrophic injury resulting from a motor vehicle collision therefore requires analysis of both the underlying liability claim and the insurance rules that apply.

What Laws Apply to Catastrophic Injury Claims in Georgia?

Georgia generally provides two years to bring an action for injuries to the person under O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33, although, like Massachusetts law, exceptions and tolling provisions can affect the deadline in particular cases.

Georgia is an at-fault state for automobile accidents, meaning liability generally depends on identifying the person or parties legally responsible for causing the collision.

Georgia also follows modified comparative negligence under O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33. If an injured person is less than 50% responsible, damages may be recovered but are reduced according to that person’s percentage of fault. If the injured person is 50% or more responsible, recovery is barred.

Georgia does not impose a general statutory cap on compensatory damages for pain and suffering in ordinary personal injury cases.

Because the applicable rules can depend on both the state and the type of claim involved, I evaluate the law based on the particular circumstances rather than treating catastrophic injury cases in Massachusetts and Georgia as interchangeable.

Frequently Asked Questions About Catastrophic Injury Claims

What Is the Difference Between a Serious Injury and a Catastrophic Injury?

The difference is generally the extent and duration of the consequences.

A serious injury may require surgery, hospitalization, and months of recovery but ultimately allow the person to return substantially to their previous life. A catastrophic injury typically causes permanent or long-term impairment that significantly affects employment, independence, mobility, cognition, or other major aspects of daily life.

That distinction can dramatically change how damages must be evaluated because a catastrophic injury claim may need to account for losses extending over the injured person’s lifetime.

How Long Do I Have to File a Catastrophic Injury Lawsuit?

The general deadline depends on where the claim arises.

In Georgia, personal injury actions are generally subject to a two-year limitations period under O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33. In Massachusetts, tort actions for bodily injury are generally subject to a three-year limitations period under M.G.L. c. 260, § 2A.

Those are general rules, not universal deadlines. Claims involving minors, governmental defendants, particular causes of action, or other circumstances may involve different requirements or tolling rules.

Who Pays for Future Medical Care After a Catastrophic Injury?

When another party is legally responsible for causing an injury, reasonably anticipated future medical expenses may be included as part of the damages sought in the personal injury claim.

Those expenses may include future surgeries, rehabilitation, physician care, medication, equipment, attendant care, and other medically necessary treatment associated with the injury. The important issue is establishing those future needs with appropriate medical and other evidence rather than simply estimating what treatment might cost.

Can I Recover Lost Future Income If I Cannot Return to Work?

Potentially, yes.

A catastrophic injury claim can include loss of earning capacity when the evidence establishes that the injury has reduced the person’s ability to earn income in the future.

That does not necessarily require being completely unable to work. Someone who must change occupations, reduce hours, give up advancement opportunities, or accept lower-paying work because of permanent limitations may also experience a loss of earning capacity.

Vocational and economic experts may be used when necessary to quantify that loss.

What If I Was Partially Responsible for the Accident?

Partial responsibility does not necessarily eliminate a catastrophic injury claim, but the rules differ between Massachusetts and Georgia.

In Georgia, an injured person who is less than 50% at fault may recover damages reduced according to their percentage of responsibility. At 50% or more, recovery is barred under O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33.

Massachusetts permits recovery when the injured person’s negligence is not greater than the combined negligence of the person or persons against whom recovery is sought. The award is reduced according to the injured person’s percentage of negligence.

What Experts May Be Needed to Prove a Catastrophic Injury Claim?

The appropriate experts depend on what needs to be established.

Medical specialists may address diagnosis, prognosis, permanent impairment, and future treatment. A life care planner may evaluate long-term medical and support needs. A vocational expert may determine whether the injured person can return to previous employment or other work. An economist may calculate future earning losses and other financial damages.

Accident reconstructionists, engineers, or other technical experts may also be necessary when liability itself is disputed.

Can a Family Member Bring a Claim If the Injured Person Is Incapacitated?

A family member does not automatically obtain legal authority to pursue another adult’s personal injury claim simply because that person has become incapacitated.

Depending on the person’s condition, existing legal documents, jurisdiction, and circumstances, it may be necessary for someone with legally recognized authority or a court-appointed representative to act on the injured person’s behalf.

If the injured person dies from the injuries, different wrongful death and estate laws govern who may pursue claims in Massachusetts and Georgia.

Can My Spouse Recover Compensation Because of My Catastrophic Injury?

Potentially.

A spouse may have a separate loss-of-consortium claim under applicable state law when a serious injury substantially affects the marital relationship. The requirements and damages available depend on the jurisdiction and circumstances. This is distinct from the injured person’s own claim for medical expenses, lost income, pain and suffering, and other losses.

How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Catastrophic Injury Lawyer?

Lionhart Injury Law handles catastrophic injury cases on a contingency fee basis.

You do not pay an upfront attorney’s fee. Instead, the attorney’s fee is an agreed-upon percentage of the recovery if compensation is obtained. I will explain the contingency fee agreement and how case expenses are handled before you decide whether to hire the firm.

The initial consultation is free.

Why Choose Lionhart Injury Law for a Catastrophic Injury Case?

Catastrophic injury litigation requires an attorney to understand not only what happened during the accident but what the injury will mean years into the future.

Attorney Hartigan’s serious injury results include:

  • $6,000,000 in a commercial trucking accident case;
  • $1,100,000 in a premises liability case;
  • $1,000,000 in a staircase accident case; and
  • $650,000 for a car accident victim who suffered a traumatic brain injury.

Past results do not guarantee a particular outcome. They do, however, reflect my experience handling cases in which serious injuries and substantial future damages must be investigated, documented, and presented.

I work to identify the medical, vocational, economic, and other evidence necessary to show the complete impact of an injury. That includes understanding whether you can return to work, what future medical treatment is reasonably anticipated, whether you will need assistance or accommodations, and how permanent limitations have changed your daily life.

I represent catastrophic injury victims throughout Massachusetts and Georgia from Lionhart Injury Law’s offices in Boston, Atlanta, and Decatur.

How Can I Speak With a Catastrophic Injury Lawyer About My Case?

A catastrophic injury creates questions that may not have immediate answers. You may not yet know whether you will return to work, whether another surgery will be necessary, how much rehabilitation you will need, or whether the limitations you are experiencing will be permanent. However, you do not need to know all of those answers before speaking with an experienced catastrophic injury attorney.

I am Robert J. Hartigan, founding attorney of Lionhart Injury Law. If you or a family member has suffered a traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, severe burn, complex fracture, or another life-changing injury because of someone else’s negligence, call 1-855-343-0997 for a free consultation.

Lionhart Injury Law represents catastrophic injury victims throughout Massachusetts and Georgia, and there are no upfront attorney’s fees for contingency-fee representation.