Our lawyers have handled many lawsuits<\/u> – typically hip injury car accidents and nursing home falls – where the injury is a brokne or fractured hip. This page looks at fracture hip lawsuits and average compensation payouts in broken hip lawsuits.<\/p>\n
Approximately 250,000 hip fractures occur annually in the United States and they are associated with a substantial mortality rate. Approximately 5% of all fracture patients die during initial hospitalization, and the mortality rate in the first year after hip fracture is between 20 to 58%. Most studies are on the lower end of the range but the numbers are still mind-boggling.<\/p>\n
There are many traumatic ways people suffer broken hip injuries. In our practice, we see them in three types of cases: nursing home, car accidents, and slip and fall cases. Among those three categories, the most common is<\/u> nursing home neglect and abuse cases. Certainly, the daunting hip fracture fatality rate is largely borne<\/u> by the senior population, particularly those with osteoporosis. What is remarkable is how many nursing home patients die from the consequences of a fractured hip.<\/p>\n