Suffering a broken bone in an accident is concerning enough. But with enough impact force, bones can break in more serious and complicated ways and require much more focused care and recovery time.
Impaction fractures can occur in a car collision on a California freeway or in a serious fall. They are traumatic injuries that force pieces of bones into each other to often cause serious damage.
Victims may need weeks of recovery and expensive surgeries to set up bones to heal properly. When these types of broken bones occur due to the negligence of an individual or a business, victims are right to seek help with their medical costs. Schedule a free consultation with a California Traumatic Injury Lawyer to find out about the benefits available to you and your family after a personal injury accident.
Impaction Fracture Dangers in California Accidents
An impaction fracture is an injury that occurs when broken fragments of bones get jammed together. The Cleveland Clinic also refers to this type of break as a “buckle fracture.” Pressure is exerted on a bone and, instead of a complete break, the bone buckles on itself in a compression fracture.
Unfortunately, these types of compression fractures most often happen in children, especially when they stick their arms out to catch a fall or to shield themselves from an impact. The bones in the arm crumple instead of snapping. It happens to children more often because their bones are softer and less brittle.
But these injuries affect all ages and can affect any part of the body. Victims in California car accidents could suffer an impaction fracture. A slip-and-fall victim on a grocery store aisle could have a buckle fracture show up on an X-ray. A mishap in an unsafe work environment like on a construction site or on a farm may leave victims with a painful impaction fracture.
A California Traumatic Injury Lawyer works to get victims, young and old, the support they need in recovery. Insurance companies for at-fault drivers, property owners, and employers will work to limit the support victims receive. A complicated fracture may leave victims paying for half or more of their own treatment costs out of pocket. A Maison Law Attorney fights back against this unfair behavior.
Impaction Fractures Recovery Time And Treatment Costs
Impaction fractures are often treated with a splint and patients can feel better in two to three weeks as long as they don’t use the limb or appendage that’s been affected.
Complications that lead to enormous medical bills can arise. Patients using their limbs after a buckle fracture are more likely to reinjure the weakened bone. A crumpled bone may also do damage to nearby soft tissue and organs. A bone in a splint may not align right as it heals. Surgeons might be forced to rebreak a bone to realign it so it can heal. The expensive installment of plates and screws may be needed.
Prices will vary in different parts of California, but Costhelper Health finds that care for a broken arm will typically cost over $2,000. Treatment in an emergency room will add around $1,500 to any bill. When surgery is required to correct a buckle fracture the costs quickly skyrocket to $15,000 or more.
Or course, these costs should never be the worry of a victim of a personal injury accident. Personal injury accidents are caused by negligent parties that should have acted to prevent the accident. That includes a reckless driver who should have slowed down or a store like Wal-Mart that should have had employees who clean up puddles and spills before you took a dangerous fall. These at-fault parties can be held fully liable and be forced to provide a broken bone injury settlement check.
What Types of Things Earn Compensation After a Impaction Fracture?
A buckle fracture injury can affect your personal life and your work life in many negative ways. You may have a leg injury that keeps you from walking. You may not be able to type, drive, or hold a child if an arm bone is trying to heal.
Every hardship you endure in your recovery must be included in the claim for damages you submit to an insurance company.
This is a key component of getting the most out of your impaction fracture injury claim. Your personal injury accident lawyer will maximize the settlement money you receive by filing a strong case that seeks damages for all suffering you’ve endured. Some of the factors that might earn you additional money are some hardships you may not have thought of:
- Past and future hospital and physical therapy bills.
- Any permanent disfigurement.
- Any permanent disability.
- Pain and suffering. This includes the physical pain you experience and the mental trauma you endure.
- Travel costs while you are off your feet and must attend medical appointments.
- Car damage costs and property damage replacement.
- Loss of normal life and the loss of enjoyment of life.
- Past and future lost income.
Protecting Children After an Impaction Fracture Injury
Someone’s carelessness may cause an injury to a child. These injuries that affect still-developing victims can require further compensation for a child’s medical care now and down the road.
A child suffering a buckle fracture could suffer growth issues as they mature. An arm or a leg may continue to develop abnormally through the teen years due to an impaction fracture suffered years ago.
A California traumatic injury lawyer would fight to make sure children and their parents had the funds provided to treat any type of future issues with a broken bone.
That’s why you should always have a personal injury lawyer look over any accident settlement offer from an insurance company. Once you sign off on it, there’s no way to go back and ask for more support when complications arise months or years from now.
For more information about protecting your child after an accident, please check out our childhood personal injury page.
Contact a California Impaction Fracture Injury Lawyer
After suffering a broken bone in a car crash or any other personal injury accident, you may have real doubts that the at-fault party will provide what you’ll need to pay every recovery bill.
That understandable doubt is a good reason to talk with a legal professional about what your impaction fracture is really worth and the best way to demand full support. Contact Maison Law of California for a free case evaluation to answer these questions and more.
It’s a no-risk way to learn about every benefit available to you and your family. There’s no obligation, but if you decide we can help you maximize your injury claim you won’t need any money to hire us. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you.
