Legal Help After a Catastrophic Back Injury
The consequences of a serious back injury can devastate you physically, emotionally, and financially. If your spine injury is severe enough to cause you to experience new physical debilitations, then continuing to work or moving in an expected range of motion could be impossible. With everything adding up, it is time to call upon a trusted team of attorneys to help you make things right again.
Call on BD&J and our Riverside spinal cord injury attorneys. We are the experienced name in catastrophic injury representation that local clients and law firms trust when the going gets tough. Insurance companies know that they need to take the claims we file on behalf of our clients seriously.
Set up a consultation with our Riverside spinal cord injury lawyers today.
Call (855) 906-3699.
Devastating Accidents That Can Cause a Spine Injury
Spinal cord injuries are often associated with particularly violent accidents that impact the back or neck.
We have seen spine injury claims originating from:
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Falls from heights or onto hard floors
- High impact sports
- Aggravated assaults
Medical errors are also a notable cause of spinal cord injuries. Surgeons, chiropractors, and other practitioners who are not careful with a patient’s spine or spinal cord can make one “small” mistake that changes the patient’s life forever.
Regardless of how you suffered your spine injury, BD&J can help you manage your injury claim. We know where to look for useful evidence that builds up your case and proves your argument. Everything from medical records to eyewitness statements can be powerful when implemented by a legal team as experienced as ours.
Types of Spinal Injury
Spinal injuries can be divided into several categories:
- Cervical: Affecting the head and neck region above the shoulders. This is the most severe form of spinal injury.
- Thoracic: Affecting the upper chest, this injury type doesn’t typically affect most people’s arm and hand function.
- Lumbar: This type of injury could affect a person’s ability to walk.
- Sacral: Injuries to the hips, pelvic organs, and surrounding areas — this is usually the least severe form of spinal injury.
Who Can Be Held Liable for Spinal Injuries?
Liability for spinal injuries could be attributed to a product manufacturer or designer, venue owner, or employer, depending on how the accident occurred. Working with a spinal cord injury lawyer can help you document the accident and determine the chain of liability.
How Is Liability Proven in These Cases?
For someone to be held liable for a spinal cord injury, liability must be proven. This means showing the person or business had a duty of care to the accident victim, this duty was breached, and the breach led to the person’s injury. An attorney can help you prove these points in your case.
What Compensation Can You Get in a Spine Injury Case?
The compensation available in your spinal cord injury claim is unique to your case. There are many factors that can increase or decrease the final amount of damages you can hope to recover. We can help calculate what would be a fair settlement or verdict amount after tallying your damages, considering everything that you have already experienced and what is likely to come in the future.
Your compensation should help pay for:
- Emergency medical care after your accident
- Extended hospitalization
- Rehabilitative therapy for months or years
- Lost or missing wages
- Lessened enjoyment of life
- Pain, suffering, and emotional scarring
Another large factor of most spinal cord injury damages is the cost to adjust your entire life around your debilitations, disabilities, or paralysis. Many spinal cord injury survivors need their homes modified to accommodate wheelchairs. Others might be able to continue operating a car but only with unique modifications and technologies added to it. If you need to change your life because of an injury you did not cause, then we will fight diligently to get every penny to make those changes possible at no cost to you.
Our Riverside spine injury lawyers want to fight for you! Call (855) 906-3699 now.
