Were You Injured Trying To Close An Overhead Bin That Opened During A Flight?

When you book a seat on a flight, you are paying for the transportation to your destination. But that is not all you have the right to expect. You are also entitled to make the trip in a safe setting that is properly serviced and maintained. While the overhead bins are not critical to the flight of the plane, the airline staff are still required to maintain them to ensure the safety of the passengers. The flight crew should inspect the function of the doors and latches, watch how luggage is loaded, and ensure the doors are closed and latched while the plane is in flight. If they discover an issue with any of the overhead bins, that information should be noted, and repairs should be requested to protect the safety of future passengers. When the staff fail to take the time to complete these inspections or request repairs when needed, they can be considered negligent in their duty of care to ensure passenger safety.

If an overhead bin near you opened during a flight, you and others around you are fortunate not to have been hurt by a cascade of luggage falling on top of you. In these cases, you would think the flight crew would immediately be at your side to ensure no one was hurt and close the overhead bin. However, if no one shows up to help, you are likely to take matters into your own hands to avoid further possibilities of harm. Sadly, all it takes is a moment or turbulence or a shift in the level of the plane for you to suffer severe injuries because of the overhead bin that flew open and needs to be closed. Sadly, victims of these situations can suffer one or more of these very serious injuries:

• Partial or complete amputations – often the fingers that are caught in the door
• Severe lacerations or puncture wounds that can involve internal bleeding and damage to internal organs if the plane shifts and you fall
• Fractured, broken, or shattered bones from a fall or falling luggage
• Joint dislocations or destruction of the soft connective tissue of the joints from a fall or impact
• Soft tissue injuries and the destruction of nerves
• Harm to the neck, back, or spinal cord due to a fall
• Harm to the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, or delicate skin of the face is luggage that falls on you or you fall
• Head injuries from a fall or impact can range from a severe concussion or skull fracture to a brain bleed or other traumatic brain injuries

As the victim of harm while on a flight when you were trying to close an overhead bin that opened unexpectedly, you could seek compensation for the losses and expenses you incurred because of the injury incident. The amount you receive will be based on the actual losses and costs, or allowable expenses, as they are called in legal lingo. Working with your DTLA Law Group airline injury attorney, you will gather all the documentation to verify the costs and losses you have suffered, which are used to establish the compensation amount. Items most commonly used in the process include, but are not always limited to:

• The cost to repair or replace the personal property that was damaged or destroyed in the airline injury incident
• The cost of all legal services related to preparing, filing, and litigating your airline injury lawsuit
• The cost of all current and projected medical care needed to treat or rehabilitate the injuries sustained in the airline incident
• Your lost income if the harm you suffered in the airline injury incident prevented you from working at your regular job until you were fully healed and cleared by your medical care providers to return to the duties of your job

In the event that the victim sustained severe injuries that require painful and lengthy treatment, they are permitted to seek additional compensation for their pain and suffering caused by the injuries. This is not a documented amount, as are the legal and medical expenses included in the compensation calculation, so the victim relies on their DTLA Law Group legal team to provide guidance in selecting a fair and reasonable amount. The legal staff will often review recently completed cases with similar details to ensure you are provided with a reasonable amount that the court will grant as this aspect of the compensation package.

As a personal injury victim, you have two years from the date of the airline injury incident to file a lawsuit with the court. The time limit provided is strictly enforced, and once it expires, you will no longer have the right to pursue legal action to secure compensation for the losses and expenses created by that incident. In addition, very limited exceptions would provide a victim added time to file a lawsuit once the original time limit has passed. Please reach out to DTLA Law Group today to discuss the time remaining for you to take action and file a personal injury lawsuit for your airline injuries.

After suffering injuries while on a flight, you are sure to face many challenges and financial concerns. Sadly, many injury victims never take legal action even when they have the right to pursue a lawsuit because they cannot afford to hire a quality legal team to assist them. At DTLA Law Group, we are dedicated to providing exceptional legal help to all personal injury victims, and we never require any upfront payments. Instead, we only get paid for our work and the expenses we pay on behalf of our clients after the case is resolved. At that time, they received compensation that included funds to cover our legal services and their other expenses.

Finally, if your DTLA Law Group airline injury attorney fails to win your case and get you the compensation you need and deserve, you owe the firm nothing for its time and investment in building your airline injury lawsuit. Please make time soon to get in touch with the legal experts at DTLA Law Group to learn more about this viable opportunity to resolve the monetary challenges created when you were injured trying to close an overhead bin that opened during a flight.

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