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Boca Raton Catastrophic Injury Lawyers
Some injuries end more than a normal week — they end a way of life. Brain damage, paralysis, amputation, severe burns: catastrophic injuries demand cases built to match, valued across decades of real needs. Shiner Law Group has recovered more than $500 million for injured Floridians, with no fee unless we win.
When the Injury Is Permanent, the Case Must Think in Decades
"Catastrophic" is the law's word for injuries that permanently change what a person can do: traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord damage and paralysis, amputations, severe burns, organ damage, and blindness. What unites them isn't the cause — it's the arithmetic. The losses don't stop at today's medical bills; they compound across surgeries not yet scheduled, equipment not yet needed, careers not yet lost, and care not yet required.
That arithmetic is exactly what insurers refuse to do. Their offers price the visible present — the hospital stay, the current bills — and ignore the expensive future. The answer is a case built on life-care planning: physicians, rehabilitation specialists, and economists projecting every category of future need and converting it to present value, creating a number that can be defended in court and therefore commanded in settlement.
Shiner Law Group builds catastrophic cases from our Boca headquarters — full liability investigation, every policy pursued, lifetime valuation — and takes them as far as accountability requires. You pay nothing unless we win.
No upfront cost, ever. Every case is handled on a strict contingency fee. Call (561) 777-7700 for a free, confidential consultation, available 24/7 from offices across Florida.
Why Catastrophic Clients Choose Shiner
The Offer Covers Today. Your Injury Lasts a Lifetime.
Evidence disappears quickly — camera footage is overwritten, records are gathered by the defense, and witnesses move on. Call now for a free case review, available 24/7.
Protecting a Catastrophic Claim — Step by Step
The steps you take in the first hours and days can make or break your claim.
Stabilize and Follow the Medical Plan
World-class trauma care exists here - use all of it, and let the records build.
Appoint a Family Point Person
One trusted person to gather documents and communicate with us while you focus on recovery.
Preserve the Cause
Vehicle, product, scene, or site - fault evidence vanishes during long hospitalizations. We preserve it for you.
Track Everything
Bills, mileage, home modifications, family caregiving hours - all compensable, all forgettable.
Refuse All Early Offers
No number offered in the first months can price a lifetime. Signing ends the claim forever.
Call Shiner Law Group
(561) 777-7700. We take the legal weight off your family immediately. Free consultation, 24/7.
What Catastrophic Cases Require
Bigger injuries don't just need bigger numbers — they need different proof.
Liability, Fully Built
Catastrophic verdicts invite ferocious defense. Reconstruction, experts, and every responsible party — the foundation must hold seven figures.
The Life Care Plan
The case's centerpiece: medical needs, equipment, home modification, attendant care, and lost earning capacity projected across a lifetime and reduced to present value.
Coverage Archaeology
One policy rarely covers a lifetime. Primary, umbrella, UM/UIM, and multiple defendants' policies — found, stacked, and pursued.
Catastrophic Injuries, By the Numbers
About 18,000 Americans suffer new spinal cord injuries each year per NSCISC data, TBI-related injuries kill roughly 190 people a day per the CDC — and lifetime costs for the most severe injuries run from roughly $1 million to more than $5 million.
18,000 New SCIs a Year
The National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center estimates about 18,000 new spinal cord injuries annually — crashes and falls leading the causes.
Source: National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC)
190 TBI Deaths Every Day
CDC data attributes roughly 69,000 deaths a year to traumatic brain injury — and 214,000+ hospitalizations.
Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
$1M to $5M+ Lifetimes
Lifetime costs for the most severe injuries run from roughly $1 million to more than $5 million per NSCISC estimates — the arithmetic every catastrophic case must answer.
Source: NSCISC cost estimates
How Catastrophic Injuries Happen
The causes are ordinary accidents at extraordinary severity.
Whatever the mechanism, the case-building is the same: liability, lifetime valuation, full coverage.
High-Speed & Truck Crashes
I-95 physics - the leading source of catastrophic trauma
Motorcycle & Pedestrian Impacts
Unprotected bodies against vehicles
Falls From Height
Construction and building maintenance
Drownings & Near-Drownings
Anoxic brain injury from pools and open water
Fires, Explosions & Products
Burns and blast trauma from failures
Medical Catastrophes
Surgical, anesthesia, and birth injuries
Catastrophic Injuries We Represent
- Severe traumatic brain injuries
- Spinal cord injuries and paralysis
- Amputations and limb loss
- Third-degree and inhalation burns
- Multiple-trauma and crush injuries
- Blindness and vision loss
- Organ damage and failure
- Injuries requiring lifetime care
What Can You Recover?
Lifetime Medical Care
Surgeries, rehabilitation, equipment, medication, and attendant care — projected across a lifetime by life-care planning experts
Home & Vehicle Modifications
Accessible housing, ramps, lifts, and adapted transportation
Lost Earning Capacity
The career and income the injury took — calculated by economists, not guessed
Attendant & Nursing Care
Daily assistance costs that often exceed the medical bills themselves
Pain & Suffering
The permanent human cost — physical pain, emotional distress, and loss of independence
Family & Consortium Losses
The impact on spouses and families whose lives change alongside the victim's
Insurance Tactics You May Face — and How We Answer Them
Insurers are businesses, and adjusters are trained to close claims for as little as possible. These are the tactics injured people in Boca Raton and Palm Beach County see most — and each one has an answer.
Quick, Low Offers
An early check before the full extent of your injuries and future care is known
Recorded Statements
Friendly calls that lock in your account and look for words to use against you
Shifting Blame
Arguments that you share fault - under Florida’s 50% rule, every point matters
Gaps in Treatment
Missed or delayed appointments recast as proof you were not really hurt
Delay
Slow responses and repeated document requests while bills and pressure build
Disputed Causation
Claims that your injuries came from something other than this accident
Social Media Review
Photos and posts taken out of context to minimize your injuries
Broad Releases
Settlement papers that end every claim - sign nothing before a lawyer reviews it
The most important thing to know: the defense starts building its case before you have spoken to an attorney. Shiner Law Group levels this from day one. Call (561) 777-7700 before giving anyone a statement.
Shiner Law Group — $500M+ Recovered for Injured Floridians
That figure is the aggregate of recoveries across our Florida practice since 2002. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee future outcomes — what matters is how your case is investigated, valued, and pressed.
across Florida
since our founding
4.9-star average
Why Injured Floridians Choose Shiner Law Group
Real Case Valuation
We calculate all damages — current and future, economic and non-economic — not just the obvious bills. No element of your claim is left on the table.
Leverage That Works
We counter delay tactics and lowball offers with evidence, expert analysis, and the credible threat of trial.
Statewide Presence
Offices across Florida — Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Pierce, Port St. Lucie, Wellington & Orlando — with home and hospital visits anywhere in the state.
No Win, No Fee
Zero upfront cost, no retainer, no consultation fee. Our fee comes from the recovery, so our incentive matches yours.
David Shiner has represented injury victims throughout Florida since 2002, and his firm has recovered more than $500 million for injured clients and their families. Every case is handled on a strict No Win, No Fee basis. Call (561) 777-7700 for a free, confidential consultation.
Headquartered in Boca Raton — Serving All of South Florida
Our headquarters is right here in Boca Raton — and home and hospital visits are available throughout South Florida. Call (561) 777-7700, available 24/7.
Catastrophic Injury Questions Answered
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