If you or a dear one has suffered catastrophic injuries in an accident, it can result in long-term or permanent disabilities. This means you will need to address the physical, financial and emotional consequences that impact not only injured victims but also their families.

The patient has to get the right medical treatment, make the best possible recovery and also ensure that they are able to earn some kind of living to support themselves to a bigger or smaller extent. This entails filing for compensation from those responsible for your accident, ensuring that you get all the benefits and entitlements that you are eligible for and also get your life back on track as far as possible. To help with this, you need the advice, assistance and advocacy of an experienced personal injury lawyer.

Another professional who may be appointed by insurance-companies is a professional case manager. They should be involved from within the first 24 hours of the accidents for best results. This helps to maintain communication-lines between patient, family, care-giver, health-care professionals, insurers, etc. It also ensures that the most cost-effective care appropriate to the injuries is provided. The case manager helps with planning for hospital discharge, communicating with hospital staff and nursing teams, coordination with multi-disciplinary care, community and home-based reintegration, return to work or school, evaluations, tests and follow-up. In case of permanent disability, this involves home-health, lifetime-planning etc. The case manager is paid by the insurance-companies but the victim has a choice on the appointment of this person.