An injury from a car accident or a sudden fall can leave you permanently paralyzed. If another person’s negligence caused your accident, you should discuss your legal options with our compassionate catastrophic injury attorneys.
Paralysis can change your life forever, but you can receive the care you need and have the quality of life you deserve with the right resources. Our Butler paralysis injury lawyer could serve as your advocate and fight to obtain the compensation you are entitled to.
Paralysis can occur due to genetic conditions that result in loss of sensation or motor control in parts of the body. Usually, though, paralysis occurs because of injuries that damage the spinal cord.
Occasionally, these injuries are unavoidable, but they usually result from another person’s negligent actions. The scenarios that lead to these injuries include:
One of our attorneys from our Butler office could help you pursue the compensation you need after a serious injury has left you paralyzed.
All forms of paralysis are not alike. Full paralysis is more serious than partial paralysis. The extent of your loss of sensation and motor control determines which type of paralysis you suffer from.
Partial paralysis generally involves limited control or sensation over certain muscle groups, but it does not mean you have completely lost the ability to use those muscles. You might experience the effects of paralysis intermittently.
In contrast, full paralysis involves a total inability to move or feel the affected area of your body. You have the right to pursue a legal claim, whether your paralysis is partial or full. As our experienced Butler injury attorneys could tell you, full paralysis is more likely to impact your quality of life, making your need for compensation especially urgent.
Personal injury claims are usually based on the legal concept of negligence. For your paralysis injury claim to succeed, one of our lawyers in Butler would have to prove that another party failed to act with reasonable care and that this failure directly caused your injury. Negligence’s key elements are duty, breach, causation, and damages.
The negligent party must have owed a legal duty of care to you. In some types of cases, the existence of a duty of care is a contested issue. In other situations, there is no dispute that the negligent person owed you an obligation to act reasonably.
A breach occurs when an individual fails to uphold their duty of care (for example, by running a red light, failing to clean up a spill, or neglecting safety protocols). An act or omission qualifies as a breach if the negligent party failed to behave the way a reasonably prudent person would under similar circumstances.
Causation is the link between your paralysis and another person’s breached duty of care. You are entitled to compensation only if you can show you would not have become paralyzed if they had not behaved carelessly or recklessly.
You are entitled to compensation only if you can establish that you suffered compensable injuries. In paralysis cases, these typically include extensive medical costs, lost wages, long-term care needs, and emotional suffering.
If you suffered a paralyzing injury, now is the time to speak with experienced legal counsel from our firm. Call us today to schedule a free consultation with our Butler paralysis injury lawyer.