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Injuries that affect the neck, back, and spine can cause significant limitations that affect every aspect of a person’s life. These injuries can occur in various circumstances, including car accidents, slip and falls, gunfire, and medical malpractice, to name a few.
One common thread among all of these causes is that they are often attributable to some other person or entity’s negligence. In these situations, victims can pursue compensation for their financial and personal harms through a lawsuit.
To learn more about your opportunity to pursue damages, reach out to the seasoned Hammond spinal injury attorneys at Wruck Paupore by calling our offices at (219) 322-1166. We can offer you a free case evaluation to get you started on the path to full compensation.
Forceful blows, penetrating injuries, infection, and any number of other adverse causes could lead to the contraction of a spinal injury. Some causes are responsible for a larger percentage of these types of injuries than others, and, in most cases, these causes can be attributed to another party’s negligence.
Typically, slip and fall accidents are the leading cause of general personal injuries and spinal injuries across the country each year. This is because the easiest way to injure your neck or back is to fall on it.
If your fall occurred because the property owner or manager of the area where it occurred failed to cure or warn you about a hazardous condition, you may have legal recourse against that party. This depends on the nature of the accident and the duty of care that the owner owed you as a guest. For more information about premises liability and duties of care, reach out to a seasoned Hammond spinal injury attorney.
Collisions on the roads of Hammond, whether it be I-94, Calumet Avenue or a side street, are all too common and one of the leading causes of spinal injury. Though many strides have been made in on-board vehicle safety features in the past decade, nothing can truly eliminate the chances of sustaining a serious injury in a collision. This is particularly true for motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians, who do not enjoy the protection of these safety features when they are hit by a car.
Believe it or not, gunshot wounds are the country's third leading cause of reported spinal injuries. It is even more likely that an unsuspecting bystander could be struck by a stray bullet in urban, highly populated areas.
In these cases, the perpetrator may already be facing criminal charges for their actions, but it is important not to conflate a criminal prosecution with your civil lawsuit. A civil personal injury lawsuit is how the victim pursues damages for their harms and will not be affected by the existence or verdict of a criminal case. Therefore, you should always consult a Hammond spinal injury attorney about your legal options, even if the defendant is already facing criminal charges or was found not guilty in court.
Even when you are in the care of medical professionals, devastating spinal injury is still possible when these professionals fall short of the professional standard of care. This can happen in any number of ways.
For instance, mistakes in the administration of anesthesia could cause perforations or bleeding in the spine. Undiagnosed conditions could exacerbate the issue to the point of constant chronic pain or even disability. Surgical errors involving the spine can impact the entire nervous system. Chiropractors and other therapists could institute protocols and techniques that could cause more harm than good. If you feel that your recent medical care may have caused or exacerbated a spinal condition, get a second opinion, and speak with your Hammond spinal injury lawyer as soon as possible.
Spinal injuries are among the most serious injuries that any person can experience. For this reason, those who negligently cause them should be held accountable for the full weight of the consequences of these injuries.
This starts with the subsequent medical care necessary to treat and rehabilitate the condition. All costs of medical procedures and expenditures, including surgeries, prescriptions, specialist fees, and others, will be compensable in a lawsuit. This includes situations where a victim’s injuries require them to make modifications to their home or vehicle and where the condition makes assisted care services necessary.
Spinal cord injuries also may temporarily or indefinitely prevent the victim from meeting the responsibilities of their job or even earning an income at all. With the help of an economic expert’s testimony, your Hammond spinal injury attorney can help demonstrate the monetary value you deserve in terms of lost income and decreased earning capacity.
These types of injuries are also likely to leave victims with significant personal consequences that affect how they live their lives. Chronic pain, physical limitations, and the onset of psychological conditions such as depression and anxiety disorders are all compensable through a lawsuit, even though they are not directly connected to a specific cost. You will want the help of a seasoned Hammond spinal injury lawyer to help you estimate what you are owed for these less tangible harms.
If you hope to recover for any of these harms in court, you must act on your case soon. Under Indiana’s statute of limitations, spinal injury victims must file their lawsuit in court two years from the date that they sustain their injury.
You should never wait this long to act, however, because critical evidence can begin to disappear very soon after the incident causing the injury. As a general rule, the longer you wait to get a skilled attorney involved, the lower your chances of recovery. In every injury case - and particularly in serious cases like a spinal injury - time is of the essence.
To find out more about your case and how we can help during your free initial case evaluation, call the dedicated Hammond spinal injury attorneys at Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166 right now.
Don is a founding partner and one of the nation’s top-ranked personal injury litigators. He is a member of the Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum, which includes less than 1% of the nation’s trial lawyers, and awarded the highest ranking given by Martindale Hubbel and AVVO.
More importantly, Don understands representing personal injury victims is about more than recovering the best settlement: it’s about helping clients get back on their feet and supporting them in every aspect of their recovery.
In nearly all cases, our clients seek compensation from the wrongdoer’s insurance company. Before forming Wruck Paupore, Jason worked for a prominent law firm representing some of the world’s largest insurers. This experience gives Jason a deep understanding of the insurance industry and the strategies it uses to pay injury victims as little as possible.
Jason -- and our entire team -- put this inside knowledge to work to force insurance companies to pay what is actually owed. Often, we use the insurance company’s own tactics against them as we fight for the full compensation our client deserves.
For more than four decades, Keith has been fighting for injury victims. During that time, he’s watched the insurance industry change, with insurers now more interested in protecting their stock price than treating injury victims fairly.
Since the beginning, Keith has put people first. From his childhood in Gary, Indiana during the 1960’s and working his way through law school, Keith has risen to become one of the Midwest’s most respected trial lawyers. He has never forgotten that being a lawyer is about helping people -- and seeing injury victims through struggles in a way that could change their lives forever.
Over the decades, Keith, Don and Jason have fought relentlessly for clients, even when other lawyers have said the case was impossible to win.
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