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Baton Rouge Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers
Spinal cord injuries can be devastating and, unfortunately, they are not uncommon. The World Health Organization puts the number of these injuries worldwide at anywhere from 250,000 to 500,00 annually. The impact includes catastrophic expenses, from high medical costs to ongoing rehab and therapy, and a potentially shorter lifespan.
Those after-effects ripple through not only the injury victim themselves, but their family and friends. The Baton Rouge spinal cord injury lawyers at Beall & Thies can’t make these problems go away—as much as we’d like to. What we can do is do the diligent legal footwork necessary to make sure the victim and their family get a fair settlement.
Reach out to Beall & Thies today at 225-383-3499 or contact us online for a consultation. We have over 100 years of experience investigating, negotiating, and litigating cases like yours.
Beall & Thies will fight for the settlement you need to pay your medical bills and help you rebuild your life after a spinal cord injury. Call today at 225-383-3499 or contact us online to set up a consultation.
Call Beall & Thies today at 225-383-3499 or contact us online to set up a consultation.
Those after-effects ripple through not only the injury victim themselves, but their family and friends. The Baton Rouge spinal cord injury lawyers at Beall & Thies can’t make these problems go away—as much as we’d like to. What we can do is do the diligent legal footwork necessary to make sure the victim and their family get a fair settlement.
Reach out to Beall & Thies today at 225-383-3499 or contact us online for a consultation. We have over 100 years of experience investigating, negotiating, and litigating cases like yours.
Types Of Spinal Cord Damage
The medical community classifies spinal cord damage in two broad categories. There are “incomplete” and “complete” spinal cord injuries. Each of these broad categories has three different subsets of injuries within them .Incomplete Spinal Cord Injuries
An incomplete injury means that there are body parts which can still function. Incomplete injuries make up over half of all reported spinal cord damage. They include…- Anterior Cord Syndrome: This will impact about 2/3 of the spinal cord. There will be paralysis below the point where the damage occurred.
- Central Cord Syndrome: The type of injury that is most common, its consequences include the inability to use the arms and hands. The disability can, in certain cases, be extended to the legs.
- Brown-Sequard Syndrome: This is a rare condition and creates the result of a victim suffering the loss of movement on one side of the body, while simultaneously losing sensation on the other side.
Complete Spinal Cord Injuries
As the name of this injury suggests, complete spinal cord damage means that nothing below the damaged part of the cord can be moved. Complete spinal cord injuries include…- Tetraplegia: Located on the cervical spine, this is the most severe injury of all, with virtually no limbs able to function voluntarily.
- Paraplegia: This is when the lower half of the body cannot be moved. In addition to immobilizing the legs and feet, paraplegia can also impact the stomach muscles.
- Triplegia: Usually starting as an incomplete injury, triplegia can be the result when complications develop. The injury gets its name because the consequence will be the inability to use three limbs—e.g., not being able to use either leg and one arm.
Beall & Thies will fight for the settlement you need to pay your medical bills and help you rebuild your life after a spinal cord injury. Call today at 225-383-3499 or contact us online to set up a consultation.
Reliable Help From Lawyers You Can Trust
At Beall & Thies, our Baton Rouge spinal cord attorneys have deep experience helping families in these difficult situations. We take the legal burden off of their shoulders, put it on ours and then leverage our 100-plus years of combined experience to fight for a fair settlement.Call Beall & Thies today at 225-383-3499 or contact us online to set up a consultation.
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Recovering From Spinal Cord Injuries
A Baton Rouge spinal cord injury lawyer must have the experience necessary to understand the full scope of costs that will be involved in the patient’s recovery. The costs of surgery are likely to be extensive and that’s really just the beginning. Rehab is going to go on for a very long time, quite possibly on a permanent basis. An attorney must be networked with experts in the medical community who can anticipate the length of rehab, what will be involved and how to estimate the financial tally.
Furthermore, patients with spinal cord injuries often go through understandable depression. Their lives have been irreversibly altered. They can no longer do the things they once enjoyed. Ongoing psychotherapy may be needed to help them cope and adjust to a new reality.
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The financial settlement must also calculate how much earning power the injury victim lost. The years of work that were ahead of them are gone. Even if their injury and job is such that they can return to work, there’s no getting back the lost time and the lost chances to get ahead on their career arc. All of that has to calculated by expert witnesses in their field and added up.
Finally, a fair settlement will make some effort to compensate the victim and their family for the mental anguish that they are going through and may continue to suffer from for an extended period of time. To assign a dollar value to lost joys with family and friends is difficult—in fact, it’s not truly possible—but financial settlements are what the legal system can offer to help a victim and their family begin again.
Finally, a fair settlement will make some effort to compensate the victim and their family for the mental anguish that they are going through and may continue to suffer from for an extended period of time. To assign a dollar value to lost joys with family and friends is difficult—in fact, it’s not truly possible—but financial settlements are what the legal system can offer to help a victim and their family begin again.
