By: Russell Keener  —  December 20, 2011
 

One’s pre­cious vision can often be taken for granted, but an eye injury can change that in a sec­ond. Lit­er­ally, in the blink of an eye, you can go from a sighted per­son to a par­tially sighted per­son – or even com­pletely blind through no fault of your own.

For­tu­nately, most of us can be very thank­ful this has never hap­pened to us, but if you are the vic­tim of an unfor­tu­nate acci­dent which has cost you your sight whether par­tially or wholly, tem­porar­ily or per­ma­nently, you are not alone. You can receive com­pen­sa­tion for your injuries, and can at least see that jus­tice is done even if the injury is a per­ma­nent one. A per­sonal injury lawyer in Mari­etta is ready and wait­ing to talk to you about your case.

How do eye injuries happen?

Just about any type of mishap can cause an eye injury. For exam­ple, per­haps you’ve received a blow to the head in a car acci­dent which has caused reti­nal detach­ment. Or, per­haps you’ve been on the job work­ing and a piece of metal has flown into your eye, caus­ing sig­nif­i­cant dam­age that required surgery.

Per­haps you’ve been the vic­tim of med­ical mal­prac­tice, whereby you decided to have Lasik or laser eye surgery to improve your vision, only to find you are now fac­ing last­ing com­pli­ca­tions from botched surgery, whether it’s the so called “halo” or “star­burst” effect or even blindness.

Per­haps you bought a prod­uct you were using for its intended pur­pose, only to sus­tain an irrev­o­ca­ble injury that you now have to live with each day. In that case, you may have a case against the prod­uct man­u­fac­turer, as well as any­one else involved in its dis­tri­b­u­tion or mar­ket­ing, with a prod­uct lia­bil­ity case.

You can get com­pen­sa­tion for your injury and its consequences

As you can see, there are many types of injuries which can result in a loss of sight, either tem­po­rary or per­ma­nent, and/or that can cause pain and injury in the eyes them­selves. Regard­less of the sit­u­a­tion, your Geor­gia per­sonal injury lawyer will take a look at your case at no charge to you, and deter­mine whether or not you deserve com­pen­sa­tion for the injury, whether through work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion, man­u­fac­turer law­suit, or suit against the other dri­ver in a vehi­cle acci­dent that caused injury to you.

You’ll need com­pen­sa­tion for pain and suf­fer­ing, med­ical expenses, and per­haps the per­ma­nent loss of your sight if that is the unfor­tu­nate out­come of your case. You’ll need to focus on relearn­ing cer­tain tasks if so, and per­haps on giv­ing up oth­ers, like dri­ving, if that’s the case.

All of the above sit­u­a­tions (and many oth­ers not men­tioned) are wor­thy of a Mari­etta per­sonal injury attorney’s atten­tion. Sim­ply present your case to the attor­ney to get a fair and hon­est assess­ment of its via­bil­ity in court. If the per­sonal injury lawyer agrees to take on your case, you’ll be rep­re­sented by some­one who has your best inter­ests at heart in court or dur­ing set­tle­ment pro­ceed­ings. If your attor­ney can­not reach a fair set­tle­ment agree­ment with the offend­ing party or par­ties, he or she will have no qualms about going to court so that your rights are pro­tected and you get the com­pen­sa­tion you deserve.

You have bet­ter things to do if you’ve been the vic­tim of an eye injury than to fight with the offend­ing party or par­ties on your own.  Let a skilled per­sonal injury attor­ney from The Keener Law Firm take over your case for you, so that you receive jus­tice and can heal, with­out hav­ing to worry about get­ting proper com­pen­sa­tion for your pain and suf­fer­ing, lost wages, and more. Your lawyer will take on your case for no money up front, but will col­lect a por­tion of your award or set­tle­ment upon com­ple­tion of your case. You have noth­ing to lose and every­thing to gain by con­tact­ing a per­sonal injury attor­ney to rep­re­sent your rights.