When a Broken Bone Changes Everything
Attorney John J. Sheehan helps Boston fracture victims recover full compensation after construction accidents, car crashes, and workplace injuries.
A fractured bone isn't just a temporary inconvenience. Surgery, months of physical therapy, permanent hardware implants, chronic pain, and the inability to return to manual labor can devastate your family's finances. Whether you broke your leg in a scaffolding collapse, shattered your wrist in a car accident on the Mass Pike, or suffered crush fractures in a workplace incident, you deserve compensation that reflects the true cost of your injury.
Attorney Sheehan has represented Boston fracture victims since 1993, fighting for workers who depend on their physical health to earn a living. He understands that a "simple" break can mean permanent disability for construction workers, warehouse employees, and manual laborers throughout Massachusetts.
Fractures We Handle
- Construction site fractures — Falls from heights, caught-between accidents, struck-by incidents, and scaffolding collapses, causing severe breaks.
- Car accident fractures — High-impact collisions on I-93, Route 1, Storrow Drive, and throughout Boston, causing leg, arm, pelvis, and spinal fractures.
- Workplace fractures — Slip and fall accidents, machinery incidents, and crush injuries in warehouses, factories, and industrial facilities.
- Hip and femur fractures — Life-altering breaks requiring surgery, extended hospitalization, and permanent mobility limitations.
- Compound fractures — Open breaks that pierce the skin, with a high risk of infection and often requiring surgical intervention.
- Crush fractures — Comminuted breaks where bones shatter into multiple pieces, requiring reconstruction.
Unlike minor sprains or bruises that heal quickly, fractures require immediate emergency care, often surgical intervention, extensive rehabilitation, and frequently leave permanent limitations. Attorney Sheehan fights for compensation that covers your complete medical costs, lost income during months of recovery, and the permanent impact on your earning capacity if you cannot return to physical work.
Understanding Your Fracture Injury
Not all broken bone injuries are the same — Attorney Sheehan helps you understand what you're facing:
- Accidentes automovilísticos de impacto lateral - Colisiones T-bone en las complejas intersecciones y rotondas de Boston.
- Acumulaciones de varios autos - Choques complejos que involucran a varios vehículos de pasajeros en la I-95 y Mass Pike.
- Accidentes automovilísticos en refilón – Es frecuente en las estrechas calles de la época colonial de Boston y durante los cambios de carril.
- Accidentes automovilísticos en estacionamientos - trabajamos con casos de colisiones, las huelgas de peatones y las disputas por el derecho de paso en centros comerciales y garajes.
- - esto suele ocurrir en los estrechos estacionamientos callejeros de Boston, que implica reclamos por daños a la propiedad y lesiones.
- - El uso del teléfono celular, mandar mensajes de texto mientras se conduce y las distracciones de los dispositivos de navegación en el tráfico de la ciudad.
- Accidentes automovilísticos por giros prohibidos en Boston – se trata de giros bruscos a la izquierda antes del tráfico que viene en sentido contrario, un conocido hábito de conducir en Boston.
- - Seguir demasiado de cerca al conductor de adelante, lo que provoca colisiones traseras.
- - Conducción agresiva que se convierte en colisiones y cargos de agresión.
- - Accidentes de nieve, hielo y lluvia durante los duros inviernos de New England.
Attorney Sheehan works with orthopedic specialists who document these complications, ensuring your settlement reflects the full scope of your injury, not just the initial break.
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Por qué los accidentes en Boston son diferentes
aumenta los riesgos de accidentes automovilísticos. La combinación de 48 pulgadas de nieve al año, calles estrechas y una cultura de conducción agresiva en Boston crea las condiciones perfectas para los accidentes automovilísticos. Los camiones de sal y los equipos de remoción de nieve obligan a los automóviles a desplazarse a espacios aún más reducidos, mientras que el hielo hace que las distancias de frenado sean impredecibles.
en todo Boston crean riesgos adicionales de accidentes automovilísticos. Los grandes proyectos de infraestructura, como la actual ampliación de la Línea Verde y las constantes obras en los servicios públicos, hacen que los conductores de Boston se enfrenten a patrones de tráfico en constante cambio, cierres repentinos de carriles y conducción distraída al manejar por rutas desconocidas.
Comprender tus derechos después de un accidente automovilístico en Boston requiere conocer el sistema de seguro único de Massachusetts:
Massachusetts opera bajo un sistema de seguro sin culpa que brinda beneficios inmediatos a través de su cobertura de protección contra lesiones personales (PIP). Cada propietario de un automóvil debe tener un mínimo de $8,000 dólares en beneficios del PIP, que cubren los gastos médicos y el 75% de los salarios perdidos, independientemente de quién haya causado el accidente.
La regla general establece que debes cumplir con el umbral de responsabilidad civil de Massachusetts para ser elegible para recuperar los daños por dolor y sufrimiento en una reclamación por lesiones corporales presentada ante la aseguradora de automóviles del conductor culpable. Esto significa que el total de tus facturas médicas por las lesiones relacionadas con el accidente automovilístico debe ser superior a $2,000 para poder presentar una reclamación por lesiones corporales. Hay excepciones a esa regla general. Tienes derecho a recibir una indemnización por dolor y sufrimiento si las lesiones causadas por el accidente automovilístico provocan la muerte o incluyen una desfiguración permanente o grave, una fractura de huesos o dientes o una pérdida sustancial de la vista o la audición.
Puedes presentar una demanda contra el conductor culpable si sus gastos médicos superan los $2,000 O si tus lesiones incluyen una desfiguración permanente o grave, una fractura ósea o una pérdida sustancial de la audición o la vista.
An emergency room evaluation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, or Boston Medical Center typically costs $2,000 to $5,000 for X-rays, CT scans, reduction procedures, and casting. When emergency surgery is required to place pins, plates, or rods, your bill can jump to $20,000 to $40,000 for the operating room, anesthesia, implants, and overnight hospitalization.
Outpatient follow-up appointments, additional imaging to monitor healing, and hardware removal surgeries can add $5,000 to $15,000 to your medical bills over 6 to 12 months of treatment.
Most fractures require 8 to 16 weeks of physical therapy after cast removal or surgical healing. At $150 to $300 per session, 2 to 3 times weekly, rehabilitation can cost $5,000 to $15,000. Workers with fracture injuries that leave permanent limitations need ongoing therapy indefinitely.
Occupational therapy to relearn basic tasks, vocational rehabilitation to train for new careers when physical work is impossible, and pain management treatment for chronic post-fracture pain add tens of thousands in additional costs.
Construction workers, warehouse employees, delivery drivers, and manual laborers cannot perform their jobs while wearing casts or surgical hardware, or while undergoing rehabilitation. Even "simple" fractures require 6 to 12 weeks off work. Complex fractures requiring surgery keep you out 4 to 6 months minimum.
At the median construction wage of $28/hour in Mass, missing three months costs over $13,000 in lost income. Miss six months and you've lost $26,000. Workers' compensation replaces only 60% of your wages, leaving significant financial gaps that third-party injury claims must fill.
Many fracture victims cannot return to their previous physical occupations. Chronic pain, permanent hardware, limited range of motion, and arthritis prevent construction work, warehouse jobs, and other manual labor. The difference between your previous wages and what you can earn in sedentary work represents hundreds of thousands in lifetime losses.
A 45-year-old construction worker earning $60,000 annually who must take a $35,000 desk job due to permanent leg fracture limitations loses $25,000 per year. Over 20 remaining work years, that's $500,000 in lost earning capacity, compensation workers' compensation doesn't provide, but third-party personal injury claims do.
Workers' compensation provides medical care and partial wages but pays nothing for your pain, suffering, permanent scarring, inability to play with your children, or lost enjoyment of activities you loved. Only third-party personal injury claims recover these damages.
Attorney Sheehan documents how your fracture actually changed your life, not just the clinical description of your injury and treatment in the medical records. You deserve compensation for the chronic pain keeping you awake, depression from forced career changes, inability to coach your kids' soccer team, and constant reminders of your injury and the limitations it causes.
Your Legal Options After a Boston Fracture
Attorney Sheehan pursues every available avenue for maximum compensation:
Workers' Compensation for Workplace Fractures
If you broke bones at work, Massachusetts workers' compensation covers your medical treatment regardless of who was at fault. This includes emergency care, surgery, physical therapy, prescription medications, and medical equipment like crutches or wheelchairs.
You also receive temporary total disability benefits equaling 60% of your average weekly wage while unable to work during recovery. If your fracture causes permanent limitations (common with serious breaks), you receive permanent partial disability benefits based on the medical rating of your impairment.
Critical protection: Your immigration status does NOT affect workers' compensation rights in Massachusetts. Undocumented workers receive the same benefits as citizens. Attorney-client privilege protects all information you share with Attorney Sheehan, and filing workers' compensation claims does not alert immigration authorities.
Third-Party Personal Injury Claims
When someone OTHER than your employer caused your fracture, you can pursue a third-party personal injury lawsuit for unlimited damages beyond workers' compensation's limited benefits.
Common third-party scenarios:
- Construction site accidents where general contractors or subcontractors (not your direct employer) caused unsafe conditions leading to your fall and fractures.
- Car accidents involving negligent drivers who caused crashes on I-93, Route 1, the Mass Pike, or throughout Boston streets are particularly common when you're driving for work.
- Defective equipment from manufacturers whose faulty scaffolding, ladders, power tools, or safety equipment failed and caused fracture injuries.
- Property owners who maintained dangerous conditions at buildings, renovation sites, or properties where you were working, especially in Boston's many old building renovation projects.
- Utility companies that failed to mark underground utilities, improperly maintained electrical systems, or created hazardous conditions, resulting in electrocution and fall-related fractures.
Third-party claims recover 100% of lost wages (not 60%), full pain and suffering compensation, complete future medical costs, loss of earning capacity, and impact on your family, including damages unavailable through workers' compensation alone.
How Attorney Sheehan Maximizes Your Recovery
Attorney Sheehan files workers' compensation claims immediately to secure medical coverage and partial wage replacement while investigating whether third parties share liability for your fracture. When third-party liability exists, he uses his advanced knowledge and skill to pursue both claims simultaneously, ensuring you receive quick workers' compensation benefits while building the strongest possible personal injury case for maximum total compensation payout.
Most Boston fracture victims don't realize they have third-party claims. Attorney Sheehan's comprehensive investigation identifies every potentially liable party, holds them accountable, and ensures you receive the full compensation you deserve, not just limited workers' compensation benefits.
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