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Glimpsing the future for an amputee: amputees struggle daily to live normal lives, and they face ever-growing medical costs. Give jurors a complete picture of an amputee's future to ensure that they award full and fair compensation.

Article from: Trial Article date: May 1, 2008 Author: Doyle, Conal

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Trial lawyers are always looking for simple, memorable ways to etch a case theme into the jurors' minds. A limb amputation case is no exception and should begin in the most elementary way: with a definition of amputation. For that, it would be hard to improve on one written by a 16-year-old boy who lost his leg to cancer at age 11. To him, "amputation" is "[a] word which connotes such extreme traumatic finality, the actual physical loss of a part of one's body, never again to be seen or felt, ...

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