Catastrophic Injury Services

Sadly, a personal calamity can strike anyone at any time, and when that happens to you, our valued clients, Womble Carlyle is available to help. Our firm has impressive talent and experience in successfully resolving some of the most complex catastrophic injury cases you can imagine, thus achieving excellent results for our clients during some of their darkest hours.

Our breadth and depth of experience in all areas of tort liability, insurance, medical issues, health care, jury research, mediation and trial also qualify us to provide zealous representation of victims who have suffered accidental catastrophic loss of life, limb, mobility or mental capacity. In most situations when we get involved, these cases are quite complex and our resources make us well situated to handle them.

• A high school football player broke his neck in a game resulting in permanent quadriplegia. The Womble Carlyle team filed suit and orchestrated a structured settlement that provides this young man with lifetime benefits and medical care.
• A doctor was rendered a quadriplegic in an off-road motorcycle accident. The Womble Carlyle team conducted jury verdict research and assembled a team of experts who assisted in a five-week jury trial that resulted in a significant confidential settlement for the client.
• A client suffered catastrophic lower limb, abdominal and head injuries when struck head-on by a company-owned vehicle. Womble Carlyle attorneys collected and reviewed all medical records, obtained affidavits, prepared a compelling settlement brochure, deposed various treating physicians, developed the legal theory and successfully mediated the case to a significant confidential settlement.