Traumatic injury to the spinal cord alters your life’s trajectory. Beyond the catastrophic physical changes, you’re suddenly faced with hefty medical bills and, for many, a loss of income that affects even your most basic expenses.
At Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers, we understand the stress and pain that may come with a traumatic injury. As your legal team, our Santa Rosa spinal cord injury lawyers are part of your family. Our 30-plus years in personal injury law handling spinal cord injury claims and securing hundreds of millions in compensation for our clients is now focused on you. Whatever the extent of your injury, we’ll work with you toward a financial resolution.
We represent spinal cord injury victims on a contingency fee basis, which means that we won’t charge you any fee until and unless we recover money to compensate you for your injuries. This means that you can hire us to handle your spinal cord injury case without ever owing us an out-of-pocket or upfront fee. The only fee we’ll charge to handle your spinal cord injury claim is a percentage of whatever compensation we recover for you.
If you cannot afford to have your spinal cord injuries treated, we can get you to doctors who will treat your injuries without charging you for treatment until your case is over. Doctors do this for our clients because they know we get great results for our injured clients.
Call us today for a free consultation, fill out the free case evaluation form on this page or text us from this page if you or a loved one suffered a spinal cord injury in Santa Rosa or Sonoma County due to an accident which wasn’t your fault. You may be eligible for financial compensation via a spinal cord injury claim or lawsuit.
Compensation Available In A Spinal Cord Injury Claim
Spinal injury victims may qualify for financial compensation for many types of damages, including but not limited to:
Medical Bills
Spinal cord injuries resulting from motor vehicle accidents or other accidents often generate huge medical bills. You may already be facing big medical expenses and you might also need future medical treatments which will lead to even more bills. We can help you recover compensation for past and future medical bills related to your spinal cord injury.
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Lost Wages
Many spinal cord injuries lead to their sufferers missing time from work. They may be hurt too badly to work or may need to take time off from work to have their injuries treated. We can help you recover compensation for any wages you were unable to earn due to your spinal cord injury.
Loss Of Earning Compensation
Spinal cord injury claims are serious injury claims, as spinal cord injuries can lead to disability – even complete paralysis. If you’ve been left disabled by a spinal cord injury, we can help you recover compensation for the loss or reduction of your earning capacity this caused.
Pain And Suffering
Spinal cord injury victims can go through physical pain and mental suffering. We are experts at putting an accurate value on the pain and suffering our spinal cord injury clients experience and ensuring they are fairly compensated for it.
Disability Accommodations
If your spinal cord injury left you disabled, you may require accommodations for your disability such as vehicle or home modifications. We can help you recover compensation for these accommodations.
What Our Santa Rosa Law Firm Does For Spinal Cord Injury Victims
As your spinal cord injury attorney, our job is to provide legal representation and seek compensation for you and your family to ease your burdens.
Your case requires actions specific to your incident and injury, but in general, our work on your behalf might include these tasks.
Summary of Rights
Our spinal cord injury attorney explains your legal rights to you. Those rights may be particular to your injury and California law. Knowing your legal rights as a spinal cord injury victim gives you the freedom and confidence to move forward and allows us to protect you from those who may try to subvert your way forward to compensation.
We’ll walk you through the sometimes-confusing legal jargon. Instead, we’ll break down your options in simple language and drill down to necessary and important steps in each phase of the process, ensuring you are always clear on what to expect as we move forward.
Investigation
Our Santa Rosa law firm will take many steps to help you move toward a legal and financial resolution of your spinal cord injury claim. Each action helps us solidify the facts, discover additional information, and spot legal inconsistencies—generally strengthening your personal injury claim and helping you secure fair compensation. Such steps may include:
- Gathering accident reports from authoritative agencies, such as the police
- Reviewing your medical history and injury-specific medical records
- Attending to legal issues associated with the incident causing your injury
- Identifying liable parties
Negotiation
Numerous companies and agencies become involved after a catastrophic event such as a spinal cord injury. At times, it’s necessary to communicate and then negotiate with, most notably, insurance companies.
Our Santa Rosa attorneys will negotiate with the various insurance companies involved and work toward fair and just compensation for your injury that covers not only your primary medical bills but your future care, lost income, and the incredible pain and suffering you’ve experienced.
Representation at Trial
Most spinal cord injury cases settle without going to trial. However, should your spinal cord injury case require going to trial, our attorneys will prepare for court and represent you.
What You Should Know About Spinal Cord Injuries
Human spinal cords are long bundles of nerve fibers which are cylindrical. This cylinder-shaped column starts in the brain then extends to the lower back’s base. It acts as a central nervous system for the body. It transmits nerve signals via the brain’s motor cortex to our body.
Our spinal cord is a crucial link between our body and brain. It is vital to the control and management of movement and bodily functions.
Put another way, you can consider our brain our body’s “command center,” while our spinal cord is a pathway along which messages are sent from the brain to the body and vice versa. Messages may be sent both ways.
Together, the spinal cord and brain form our central nervous system, which controls automatic functions like digestion and heart rate, sensory functions like pressure and temperature, and our motor functions.
When spinal cords are injured, messages from the body to the brain, and vice versa, can’t be transmitted. Spinal cords can’t grow back or regenerate like other bodily tissue, so spinal cord injuries are frequently permanent.
In other words, spinal cord damage often leads to debilitating, life-long injuries.
The Cost of Spinal Cord Injury Attorneys in Santa Rosa
At Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers, our personal injury lawyers offer a preliminary consultation free of charge. You do not pay for our legal services up front. If we successfully recover compensation for you in a settlement or award, a percentage of that amount will cover our fees.
Statute of Limitations
In California, spinal cord victims have limited time to file lawsuits for spinal injuries. Therefore, you may wish to consult an attorney about the time limit on your case. The amount of time depends on several factors, such as:
- If you intend to file a claim against a government agency, you have just a few months to do so, but a bit more to file a lawsuit under certain circumstances.
- Typically, you must file a personal injury lawsuit within two years.
Types of Spinal Cord Injuries
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), there are two broad types of spinal cord injuries:
- A complete spinal cord injury means the brain can’t send signals past the point of impact, leaving you paralyzed below the point of injury.
- An incomplete spinal cord injury means the trauma didn’t inflict quite as much damage, leaving you able to feel and move (to a certain degree) below the point of injury.
No matter the extent of your injury, from minor spinal cord injuries to severe spinal cord injuries, your spinal cord injury attorney will be by your side, working toward compensation that fully addresses the physical and financial pain you suffer.
Average Lifetime Costs of Spinal Cord Injuries
The National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC) provides a range of estimated lifetime costs, depending on your age at the time of injury, what type of work you did prior to your injury, your educational level, and other factors.
The estimated lifetime costs run from $1.2 million to $5.1 million. The costs include medical care and living expenses but do not account for lost income, benefits, or other indirect costs.
As we negotiate on your behalf, we work toward compensation that fully covers your lost income and benefits, medical expenses, and other related and unexpected costs. In addition, we’ll seek financial support that accounts for your current and future pain and suffering.
Side Effects of Spinal Cord Injuries
Unfortunately, fewer than one percent of spinal cord injury patients experience a complete recovery. Thus, the emotional and mental toll of your injury can be astronomical. Where once you were independent, you may suddenly be dependent. Perhaps you’ve gone from breadwinner to worrying about your family’s day-to-day needs.
The University of Washington says that depression and anxiety are typical side effects of a spinal cord injury. However, besides the emotional upheaval, your body may experience:
- Pressure sores
- Respiratory complications
- Chronic pain
- Osteoporosis
- Cardiovascular problems
- Difficulties with bowel movement
- Urinary tract infections
- Tight or strongly reflexive muscles
When reviewing possible compensation, your attorneys at Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers look to your primary spinal cord injury. In addition, we look at current and potential future side effects from your initial spinal injury. Your final spinal cord injury settlement should include compensation for these side effects to allow you to prepare thoroughly for whatever your future holds.
Why Trust Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers?
- They are caring when dealing with clients with spinal cord injuries, yet relentless when dealing with insurance companies.
- Their injury lawyers thoroughly investigate all of their spinal cord injury cases.
- The handle negotiations skillfully as well as deal with all unexpected legal problems
- They represent clients on a contingency fee basis, meaning their clients don’t pay unless they win
- They give every spinal cord injury victims a free consultation
Do I Need A Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer?
While it’s not a technical requirement to have a lawyer to file a spinal cord injury claim, you won’t be able to recover the compensation you’re eligible for without a lawyer.
Insurance companies know that they don’t have to pay you what you deserve for your injuries if you don’t have a lawyer. Insurance companies know your only option if they refuse to pay you what you deserve is to sue them over it, and they know you can’t win a lawsuit without a lawyer. So, if you don’t have a lawyer, they’re just going to offer you a small fraction of what you deserve and dare you to file a lawsuit over it.
In addition, it’s dangerous to talk to an insurance company representing an at-fault party in an accident. The insurance company will try to trick you into saying the wrong thing while you’re being recorded. It’s very easy to fall for their tricks and if you do, the value of your claim will plummet.
By hiring Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers, you’re sending a message to the insurance company that if they don’t pay you what you deserve, you’ll sue them and win. Almost all of our cases settle out of court because insurance companies respect and fear us.
We can handle all communications and negotiations with insurance companies for you so you can focus on recovering from your spinal cord injury.
Contact a Santa Rosa Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer at Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers
The spinal cord injury attorneys at Nadrich Accident Injury Lawyers are here to fight for you. We understand the devastation this injury has caused you and your family. We have recovered more than $750 million for our clients since 1990. Our mission is to work with you toward recovering the compensation you and your family need and deserve.
We’re here for you. Contact us today.
