Illinois workers' compensation and broken hips
If you get hurt on the job and have a unique or truly disabling injury, it's important to hire an attorney who not only focuses their practice on workers comp, but also truly understands the medicine. If your lawyer has never handled that type of injury before then in some ways they are practicing on your life. A good example is broken hips.
Although many people think of hip fractures in older people, it happens a lot to workers that sustain a fall on the job. There are two main kinds of fractures:
The first is femoral neck fracture. This happens when the ball of the ball-and-socket hip joint is broken off the femur. As it sounds, it is very painful.
The second is n intertrochanteric hip fracture which is a fracture just below the femoral neck.
There are two other kinds that occur, but not as often, a femoral head fracture and a subrochanteric fracture.
Although a femoral neck fracture is slightly more serious, both injuries usually require surgery. It's not uncommon for plates and screws to have to be put in to place in order to repair the fracture. It's also not uncommon to have to re-repair the fracture in the future. These can be some of the highest value work injury cases around and the difference between the right and wrong lawyer could be tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
From an Illinois workers' compensation perspective, it's important that your lawyer understand not only how serious these injuries are, but also how they will impact your future work life and life in general.
We are workers' compensation attorneys that help people with Illinois work injuries anywhere in IL via our statewide network of attorneys. Contact us and we will answer your questions or find the right lawyer for your situation.
