Connecting with Victims—Bond & Taylor’s First Priority

IRVINE, Calif. - April 29, 2013 - PRLog -- Irvine, CA—When an individual seeks legal help, it is often because they want monetary compensation for legitimate pain and suffering that they have sustained as a result of using a defective, FDA-approved product.  However, that is not the only reason people hire a lawyer—often, it is not even their priority.  Ms. Patty Juarez, an experienced intake specialist with Bond and Taylor, shared about what it is like receiving calls from and speaking with victims of allegedly defective products.  Ms. Juarez’s overall experience with potential clients highlights that victims are looking, whether consciously or not, for a form of validation through taking legal action—they want to be heard, to see justice served, and to contribute to “their type of story” never happening again.

In relating her comments, Ms. Juarez seems marveled by the fact that she is often the first person to ask these people how they feel, and what living life is now like with their injuries.  Ms. Juarez has lately been speaking with women who have been allegedly harmed by the Mirena IUD and Transvaginal Mesh (TVM) slings.  “These women are torn up inside”, Ms. Juarez states.  “Physically and emotionally.  One lady who I spoke with told me that she has to change her clothes up to five times per day—even at work—after suffering complications from the Transvaginal Mesh sling surgery she had not too long ago.  The woman told me how weird she feels; how others perceive her as weird—she is always wet and soils her clothes because of the damage the mesh did to her internal tissues.  She is torn up, but still has to work—and in order to work, she has to change her clothes throughout the day.”  

Patty Juarez has been speaking with potential clients on mass tort issues like TVM and Mirena for years, and relates how the experience of talking with an injured person—a person who will most likely never regain their previous quality of life—has remained a difficult, emotional experience.  “It is hard to fight back the tears when speaking with these women”, Ms. Juarez continues.  “I just hope that after they speak to me, they get the legal help through Bond and Taylor that they qualify for.  I never understood what ‘compensation for pain and suffering’ meant until I began working as an intake specialist, but now I really do: there is no amount of money that can restore the quality of life back to these women that they had before the mesh or the IUD; what they want is to be heard and to have justice—most of them are not interested in the money.  That being said, I can’t imagine people more deserving of financial compensation after suffering what they have suffered.”  Patty goes on to discuss how the saddest part of these people’s trauma is that it leaves them so injured that most of them cannot have relationships again, particularly of a romantic nature.  

Intake specialists like Ms. Patty Juarez are on the front lines with and for alleged victims of defective drugs and products.  These alleged victims call and speak, often for the first time, in candid manners about the injuries they sustained, how their lives have irreversibly changed as a result, and what they hope to receive or gain from attaining legal representation from Bond & Taylor.  The attorneys at Bond & Taylor take alleged victims’ suffering just as seriously as the intake specialists that are a part of their firm, fighting their cases with the skill and dedication that they indubitably deserve.  At Bond & Taylor, connecting with victims and their stories is the first step towards knowing exactly how to help them attain the justice, validation, and compensation that they need.

Contact:
Bond & Taylor, LLC
Candice McGurk, Managing Attorney
1 (800) 471-0314
www.bondtaylorinjurylawyers.com