New Jersey Injury Lawyer Represents Head and Spinal Injuries
Traumatic brain injuries and spinal injuries are life-changing events that have devastating repercussions to victims and their families. According to the National Center for Injury Prevention, 1.5 million U.S. citizens each year sustain a brain injury from either a blow to the head (closed head injury) or as a result of a penetrating head injury. Fifty thousand of those injured die and more than one million are treated in hospitals.
Young males are at the highest risk for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and they are usually injured in car accidents. Infants and the elderly are the second highest at-risk group and they are usually injured in falls. Serious head injuries cause serious damage leaving a victim in a stupor, coma, paralyzed, or in a vegetative state.
Common causes of serious head injury include the following:
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Spinal cord injuries often cause paralysis, and include quadriplegia, paraplegia, hemiparesis, spinal cord contusions, and brain damage. According to the Spinal Cord Injury Resource Center, approximately 450,000 people live with spinal cord injury (SCI) in the United States and there are about 10,000 new cases of SCI each year. Causes of SCI include:
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NJ head and spinal cord injuries result in costly expenses for the victim for medical care and equipment, medicines, supplies, attendant care, and technologies to assist the victim in adapting to a new way of life. Damages for lost wages and pain and suffering can also be sought.
A skilled NJ head and spinal injury lawyer understands all the elements of these highly complex cases and can fight to minimize the exorbitant costs a family faces in caring for a victim.
A New Jersey injury lawyer can help with your head injury or spinal injury lawsuit
If you have received a serious head injury or spinal injury, a New Jersey injury lawyer at Shebell & Shebell, L.L.C. is available to evaluate your case and help you through this difficult time. Contact us for a free initial consultation.
