Re: W/C settlement Question

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On 5/05/09, cami wrote:
> So my husband had a really bad arm injury at work. His arm
> got caught in a machine at work and was stuck there
> underground for an hour. He was hanging from his arm in a
> machine for that long. But anyways he ended up in the ICU
> (CCU) for a few days as he lost lots of blood. He lost an
> important muscle in his arm too. He lost Had all together
> 12 surgeries, 5 skin graphs, 2 vessel graphs, they took
one
> side of his abs out to use as a graph to cover some area
on
> his arm, he had a wound VAC, and nothing worked, his
doctor
> only had one more idea, and we couldn’t refuse it (it was
> our only chance at him getting better). The doctor had to
> scrape my husbands arm and stick it in his side, pretty
> much made a pocket to put his arm in his side to re-grow
> tissue, which was necessary for him to even move his
> fingers ever again. So that surgery was successful…but he
> still will never be able to do lots of little things,
> because that muscle is gone from his arm permanently; he
> will never be able to tie his own shoes or cut his own
> nails, he has trouble opening door knobs and such little
> things. He was off work for about a year, and now he is
> back at work, with life time limitations obviously. My
> question is, and I do feel bad to ask, if anyone know what
> the settlement should look like??? I mean he pretty much
> lost all movement of his arm and his abdominal muscle; he
> had to go though a lot this year. I can tell he has been
> depressed but you know how guys are they do admit to that!
> The only thing we look forward to is some settlement, and
> we are tired of waiting this game out!

It would depend on the state you are in?