Louisiana Catastrophic Injury Lawyer
Catastrophic Injury Attorney in Louisiana, LA
No injury is easy to deal with when it’s caused by another person’s negligence, but catastrophic and disabling injuries are especially difficult. These injuries can change the rest of your life, impacting your day-to-day, your job, your hobbies, your finances, and your family. An experienced Louisiana catastrophic injury lawyer can help you hold negligent parties responsible for their carelessness. A claim can also help you maintain financial stability.
Louisiana Catastrophic Injury Attorney at Murphy Law Firm
When you suffer a catastrophic injury, you need exceptional and experienced legal representation. At Murphy Law Firm, we have served our community for over 30 years, and our team has more than 150 combined years of legal experience.
Our team knows how to navigate complex and catastrophic injury claims. We’ve obtained a $4.0 million settlement for spinal injuries and an $18.9 million verdict for a traumatic brain injury. While past results cannot guarantee results in future claims, they do demonstrate our commitment to securing fair compensation for those who are injured by the carelessness of others. We understand that these injuries can impact your entire life, and we want to help you recover.
What is Considered a Catastrophic Injury?
Catastrophic injuries often have life-long and disabling effects, limiting a person’s mobility or independence or causing chronic pain. In Louisiana, 16.5% of the population had a disability in 2024, compared to 13.7% throughout the United States. Because of the long-term consequences of these injuries, compensation has to consider many more costs in someone’s life. Catastrophic injuries can include:
- Spinal cord injuries
- Paralysis
- Severe traumatic brain injuries
- Limb loss
- Crushing injuries
- Multiple fractures
- Significant and severe burns
- Organ damage
Injured parties are likely to underestimate the severity of the damages. These claims should consider damages like the impact on quality of life, the income that should have been earned throughout careers, the medical complications and treatment costs, and much more.
Do All Catastrophic Injuries Lead to Claims?
No, not all catastrophic injuries lead to claims, as you must still have the grounds for a personal injury claim. Generally, you have to prove:
- Another party owed you a duty of care.
- They breached their duty of care.
- This breach caused an accident or other incident.
- You were injured in the accident and suffered damages as a result.
The support of an attorney is essential to help you assess whether or not you have the grounds for a claim, and who is liable for your injuries.
What Causes Catastrophic Injuries in Louisiana?
There are many potential causes of catastrophic injuries in Louisiana. Some of the most common include:
- Commercial truck accidents. Commercial vehicles tend to be bigger and heavier than other vehicles, and collisions tend to result in multi-vehicle pile-ups and serious injuries. There were 3,713 vehicle accidents involving commercial motor vehicles, according to LSU CARTS. Of these collisions, 1,924 resulted in suspected injuries. Key transportation corridors in Louisiana, like I-20, I-10, and I-49, increase the commercial traffic and the risk of collisions.
- Other vehicle accidents. In 2025, there were more than 141,300 vehicle collisions in Louisiana, according to the Louisiana State University (LSU) Center for Analytics & Research in Transportation Safety (CARTS); 2,666 of these collisions resulted in suspected serious injuries. Accidents involving motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians are especially likely to cause severe injuries.
- Workplace injuries. In 2024, there were 148 worker hospitalizations reported to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from Louisiana workplaces, and 45 amputations. Louisiana has several hazardous industries, such as maritime, construction, logging, mining, agriculture, and transportation.
- Medical malpractice. Errors by medical providers can cause severe injuries, and these providers might be liable when they deviate from the professional standard of care. Injuries can happen from malpractice like medication errors, improper anesthesia administration, wrong-site surgery, other surgical errors, birth injuries, improper diagnoses, and more.
- Slips and falls. When falls and their resulting injuries happen because of the negligence of a property owner to address hazards, the property owner could be liable. Hazards like lack of handrails, tripping hazards, and spills can lead to falls in hazardous locations or between floors.
There are many other incidents that can lead to catastrophic injuries, like maritime injuries, dog attacks, and more.
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Peyton Murphy, a Louisiana lawyer with 30+ years of experience, specializes in personal injury cases. He founded Murphy Law Firm in Baton Rouge in 1993 and fights for his clients’ compensation.
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FAQs
What Makes an Injury Claim Catastrophic?
An injury claim is generally considered a catastrophic injury claim when the injuries have lifelong and disabling consequences. The injury may impact your ability to maintain employment; it may require frequent medical treatment; or it may mean you need at-home care and support. It can affect your quality of life, your income, and much more. Catastrophic injuries have costs well beyond the typical injury claim that should be included in a settlement or verdict.
What Are Examples of Catastrophic Injuries?
Catastrophic injury examples include serious traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord damage and paralysis, amputations, severe burns, nerve damage, reduced or lost function of internal organs, multiple fractured bones, loss of sight or hearing, and other injuries with life-altering impact. These injuries can cause chronic pain, affect a person’s daily life, and impact their independence.
What Is Catastrophic Injury Law?
Catastrophic injury law is for personal injury claims that result in severe, permanent, and disabling injuries. When someone’s negligence leads to an accident and injury, they might be liable for the costs of those injuries, but catastrophic injury claims have very high costs. This can make it harder to get the financial recovery someone is owed, whether in court or in negotiations. Immediate and long-term costs have to be properly calculated to support the injured party.
Why Do You Need to Hire a Catastrophic Injury Lawyer in Louisiana?
You aren’t required to hire a catastrophic injury lawyer in Louisiana, but it is highly recommended that you do for several reasons. A lawyer helps you determine if you can file a personal injury claim, investigates why your accident and injuries happened, and gathers evidence of liability. All of this helps you have a strong claim and improves your chances of success. An attorney also calculates your damages and advocates for fair compensation.
Managing Your Catastrophic Injury Claim in Louisiana
Filing a claim has to be done within a short time frame, which isn’t easy as you navigate changes to your life and extensive medical treatment. Murphy Law Firm can help you advocate for your future. Contact our firm today.
*All figures cited are correct as of early 2026, but are still subject to changes.
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