We have achieved impressive results
in spinal cord injury cases involving negligent corporations that produce defective products and governmental entities that fail to correct dangerous conditions of public property.
Our legal team is dedicated and aggressive in seeking a settlement that is truly reflects the degree of injury and other damages in
serious spinal cord injury cases.
Due to the considerable time and resources required in these types of cases, we are highly selective in determining
which spinal cord injury cases we will represent.
In the most
severe spinal cord injury cases, accident victims may require around - the - clock, lifetime care at a nursing home or assisted living facility.
The legal team at the firm is committed to protecting the rights of the injured and in seeking to recover a high value settlement for victims of negligence
in spinal cord injury cases.
About 200,000 people in the United States have a spinal cord injury with an estimated 12,000 - 20,000
new spinal cord injury cases occurring each year.
Spinal cord injury cases require the need for a life care planner, a specialist who will coordinate with all of the plaintiff's doctors in order to create a clear medically probable future care plan.
With
spinal cord injury cases there are times when children may have a valid cause of action when a parent sustains an injury, or vice-versa, whether the parent may maintain a cause of action where the child sustains the injury.
While no two spinal cord injuries are ever the same, and damages in paraplegia and quadriplegia cases will naturally differ in many ways,
spinal cord injuries cases seek the same type of compensation:
The skillful Atlanta spinal injury attorneys of HLM are experienced in handling
various spinal cord injury cases and understand the many complexities of this injury.
Spinal cord injury cases generally take months or years to settle and involve multiple investigations, so it is important to contact an Oakland spinal cord injury lawyer as soon after the accident as possible.
While in
most spinal cord injury cases, employment will not be allowed, and it rarely, if ever, benefits a client to claim a total wage loss where some employment opportunities exist.
A Lerner and Rowe personal injury attorney is familiar with spinal cord injuries, the circumstances and outcomes
of spinal cord injury cases and the treatment and rehabilitation the victim of a spinal cord injury will be required to endure in order to recover from the injury.
To be sure, motor vehicle collisions result in about 50 percent of all
new spinal cord injury cases every year, many of which result in paralysis.
Pain and suffering, emotional distress, embarrassment and humiliation, depression, and the loss of enjoyment for life are significant elements of damage
in spinal cord injury cases that need to be considered when expressing the plaintiff's damages.
There are two types of lawsuits in
a spinal cord injury case: personal injury and wrongful death.
Life expectancy must be taken into account when evaluating
any spinal cord injury case.
For that reason, unless counsel is sure that employment would be prohibited, given the extent of injury, proper work - up of
a spinal cord injury case necessitates a strong vocational rehabilitative specialist.
As any award in
a spinal cord injury case must be sufficient to pay for all costs of ongoing health care and rehabilitation that may last for the rest of the victim's life, it is important that victims have experienced attorneys who will aggressively fight to ensure that they receive complete compensation.
Physical disabilities in
a spinal cord injury case can be devastating.
Similarly in
spinal cord injury cases, bowel and bladder control may be non-existent and concerns of potentially life threatening infection arise.
Spinal cord injury cases can be lengthy, expensive and complex.
We have successfully obtained fair and just compensation in medical malpractice situations, brain injury cases,
spinal cord injury cases, and for many other types of injury.
Why not put our experience and knowledge to work in
your spinal cord injury case?
In
spinal cord injury cases, we sometimes consult with life care planners and economists to project the needs and costs of your accident - related care and services.
Need a lawyer for
a spinal cord injury case in Tallahassee?
However, an experienced lawyer should be intimately aware of the intricacies of the Superior Court of Maryland, as well as the many other factors that go into handling
a spinal cord injury case.
Attorneys Carlton Bennett and Kevin Sharp are authorities on traumatic brain injury and
spinal cord injury cases, which means your case will be handled with skills and knowledge that few other law firms can bring to the table.
The most difficult factor to prove in
a spinal cord injury case is causation — that the negligent party's action directly caused the injury.
Spinal cord injury cases are complex — both from a medical perspective and from a legal perspective.
There are attorneys who mainly take traumatic brain injury or
spinal cord injury cases.
My medico - legal (ML) practice is very varied, from neck and back personal injury cases, to catastrophic brain and
spinal cord injury cases, negligence work and criminal murder cases involving head injury.
We are known in the personal injury community for achieving optimal results in
spinal cord injury cases.
The majority of his practice is confined to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and
spinal cord injury cases.