Days after securing a $697,000 settlement for a client who was wheelchair-bound before the injury, plaintiff counsel Pamela Cameron said the message to fellow attorneys is simple: Do not underestimate the impact of major trauma on a person who’s already injured or ill.

“We should never dismiss a plaintiff that is already impaired,” Cameron said Wednesday. “Taking these cases can actually be more valuable because people, like my client, have a more difficult trajectory after trauma than a more able-bodied person. That was a big deal in this case.”

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