Law Office of Scott A. Nelson, P.C.

As a Starr County personal injury lawyer, I have seen a strange condition that clients have.  Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSDS) is a condition with multiple conflicting and odd, even bizarre symptoms. The one symptom which seems to be consistent is pain, often excruciating. The injured person’s complaints of severe pain often are not accepted at face value because the factor causing the pain is often not the one which is associated with the extreme symptoms.

Personal injury lawyers should understand that RSDS may occur in any area of the body, but the most common is in the person’s extremities. One of the biggest problems with RSDS is the failure of the treating doctors to diagnose it. The typical history of a very slight blunt trauma to a small area of an extremity usually does not result in serious problems to the entire extremity.

As a Starr County personal injury lawyer, with offices in Corpus Christi, I am very familiar with damages awards.  Compensatory damages may be awarded in negligence actions. This may also include damages for mental anguish, when there are also physical injuries. Damage awards can be quite large in serious personal injury cases and catastrophic accidents.

Additionally, exemplary or punitive damages may be awarded, such as in the case of gross negligence where it can be shown that the defendant had subjective effectual awareness of an extreme risk created by the defendant’s conduct.