Combat sport is on the rise in just about every American city thanks to the popularity of sports such as MMA- it breaks the monotony of regular workouts, can provide a safe outlet for aggression, and is an easy setup with little to no investment compared to the inflated costs of starting a full-fledged gym. The members that sign up for this trendy workout sport range from teens to professionals, and sign up with these facilities, trusting that they will keep them safe and guide them through the dangerous activity. There is often an illusion that nothing untoward would ever happen to them given the padded floors and controlled environment where a certified instructor is close by. However, this isn’t always the reality they are encountered with, where an inexperienced beginner is paired up with a far more experienced fighter who after the coach screams – GO! Lands a punch flush on the beginner’s temple, sending him flying onto the padded floor.

As you wake up in a vehicle and realize that it’s an ambulance, you’re informed that you have a severe concussion and need urgent medical care. Once you’re checked out, it is determined that you suffered a traumatic brain injury or TBI with severe cognitive defects. When you or a loved one accosts the gym for answers, they point to the waiver you signed and state there is nothing they can do as you assumed the risk. However, as the best countrywide MMA injuries law firm, we know that this piece of paper doesn’t absolve them of gross negligence or the fact that the coaches more often than no abdicated their duty of care – read on to find out how we can help you recover justice and compensation after getting injured during recreational boxing at your local gym.

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Are you looking for a injury lawyer? Please call us NOW at (314) 481-63338 to learn more about your legal options for justice and compensation. The experienced, countrywide personal-injury attorneys at McCready Law have combined experience spanning over 90 years where we’ve helped tens of thousands of injured Americans from all corners of the country as well as from various socioeconomic backgrounds, helping them recover money damages after getting injured on account of the negligent actions of other individuals or large corporations. To date, we have recovered over $260 million and counting for our clients, and our success is due to a number of factors such as personally handling all claims that come into the firm and not letting paralegals or inexperienced legal assistants work on them as seen in most law firms, our commitment in making sure that we put a capable and aggressive team for each claim made of physicians, investigators as well as industry-respected experts, as well as not being afraid to litigate claims in a court of law if we believe the client deserves maximum compensation based on your injuries or the actions of the defendant.

We also work with a team of well-renowned experts in the medical, investigative, forensic, and accounting fields in order to come up with a case replete with objective evidence, medical rationale for your injuries tying them to the accident and the defendant’s negligence as well as quantifying your injuries by way of compensable damages to ensure you get the compensation you truly deserve. We run a bilingual firm (hablamos Español), and we have nationwide reach thanks to our vast and trusted network of referral attorneys. Last but not least is the fact that we take on all cases on a contingency-fee basis, which simply means that there are ZERO UPFRONT FEES for the duration of the processing of your claim, as we only levy our fees at the end of the suit, and only if we’ve recovered compensation on your behalf.

Recreational Boxing and MMA – How to Prove Your Head Injury Claim

The typical defense brought forward by a gym that has a patron injured due to recreational box is the assumption of risk that one takes on once they sign the waiver. That said, it can be reliably proven that your injury wasn’t caused by the inherent risks of sparing, but by the gym’s conscious disregard for established safety protocols.

Inherent risk, by all intents and purposes, can be defined by light contact characterized by technical sparring. The unassumed risk here involves a culture of discouraging people to tap out, coerced mismatching, as well as a failure to monitor for head trauma.

In addition, we as a best MMA injuries law firm can prove that the coaches failed in their duty to supervise and match competently by pointing to sparring logs and coach credentials detailing, they had no recognized certification in fight safety, or that CCTV video showed the coach encouraging excessive force, or the sparring was carried out in an uncontrolled open sparring manner.

Proving causation is the foundation of any injury claim, so we show this by:

1. Demonstrating the gym was aware of the hazard via subpoenaed incident reports and member complaints where other patrons also got concussions in the past
2. There was foreseeability of harm where a retained sports neurologist testifies allowing unsupervised and untrained head strikes indubitably leads to TBI given the supporting medical literature
3. We also show how they violated duty of care towards you when you expressed hesitation, all you received was pressure and were told to tough it up.

You Signed a Waiver? No Problem – There’s Still Hope

It is important to note that waivers do not protect against gross negligence, and the voluntary disregard for safety, and that more often than not, they contain ambiguous language and does not warn of a specific risk such as severe traumatic brain injury on account of mismatched sparring.

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Severe TBI due to recreational boxing or MMA may be grounds for extensive damages such as the cost of past and future medical care, assistive care, home modification, the loss of future earning capacity, punitive damages, loss of consortium and so much more, often totaling to over a million dollars. If you or a loved one got injured due to recreational boxing or MMA, please give us a call NOW to learn more about your legal options for justice and compensation. Remember, the call is 100% FREE and nothing to sign. Thank you for choosing McCready Law, and we look forward to helping you get the justice and compensation you deserve.