West Palm Beach Eye Injury Attorney

Contact this West Palm Beach Eye Injury Lawyer if you’ve sustained an eye injury anyplace in the State of Florida. Eye injuries can cause total blindness, loss of sight in one eye or impaired vision. When you suffer an eye injury, you should get legal help immediately. Mr. Quackenbush represents clients whose eyes have been hurt due to someone else’s carelessness. Mr. Quackenbush helps clients recover the compensation they deserve for medical bills, pain and suffering, and other costs that they accrue as a result of the incident.

There are several things that can cause an eye injury. Eye injuries can occur due to a car accident, work accident, defective product, medical errors and doctor carelessness.

These incidents can cause damage to several structures in the eye. The cornea is the area of the eye at the front. It is the area of the area that you see when you look at the eyes of another person. Because the cornea is located at the front of the eye, it is particularly susceptible to injury. If an object enters into the eye, the cornea may be easily injured. If this occurs, you may require an ocular surgery such as a corneal transplant.

Call Mr. Quackenbush if you’ve sustained an eye injury anyplace in Florida (including Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and Miami-Dade County). Mr. Quackenbush can be contacted at 954-448-7288 and will talk to you about your case at no charge to you whatsoever.

Medical negligence or medical malpractice may also cause an eye injury. You can become a victim of medical malpractice committed by an eye doctor in several ways. When a doctor or other medical expert is careless and causes harm to a patient, then medical malpractice takes place. When a medical mistake is made, it can cause serious injury to the patient’s eye. An ophthalmologist is a type of doctor that treats patients for eye conditions and injuries. However, sometimes doctors fail to properly diagnose a patient’s eye condition. In fact, this is one of the leading causes of medical malpractice. Mr. Quackenbush helps people whose eye conditions have been missed by doctors.

For example, a detached retina is a condition in which the retina (the tissue at the back of the eye) becomes dislodged. The retina is made up of light-sensing cells. It is the area of the eye that senses light and sends signals about that light up the optic nerve and to the brain. When the retina becomes detached from the eye, this can cause vision loss. This is especially true if the area of the retina that becomes detached is near the macula.

A detached retina may begin as a retinal hole or retinal tear. These conditions can have symptoms such as “floaters,” curtains of shade drawn across the field of vision, or flashes of light. If your ophthalmologist is aware of any of these symptoms, he or she should immediately treat you. Such treatment can include laser surgery to “pin” your retina down to the back of your eye.

If your ophthalmologist doesn’t do this and you develop a full-blown detached retina as a result, then you may never recover your vision fully. Even if you do regain your vision, it may never be the same. In that case, the doctor may be liable for your loss of vision.

Complete blindness may result from retinal detachments as they can occur in both eyes. In that case, retinal detachments may prevent you from working again and can thus be catastrophic. Contact Mr. Quackenbush to speak with a qualified eye injury attorney if you suffered an injury because of someone else’s carelessness.

Macular degeneration is a condition that results when the macula (the area of the retina at the center and the part that senses light) begins to degenerate. When this happens, the patient may begin to lose sight.

Glaucoma is another condition that can cause vision loss. It occurs as a result of damage to the optic nerve, which is the pathway from the eyes to the brain and allows the transmission of signals regarding light (and thus the ability to see). Ocular pressure is one symptom of glaucoma. If your eye doctor fails to notice a high ocular pressure and glaucoma develops as a result, then the doctor may be liable for the consequences.

Call Mr. Quackenbush at 954-448-7288 should you sustain an eye injury anywhere in Palm Beach County (including Belle Glade, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Greenacres, Jupiter, Lake Worth, Lantana, North Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Springs, Riviera Beach, Royal Palm Beach and Wellington). He will talk to you about your case for free. This West Palm Beach Eye Injury Law Firm is ready, willing and able to help.