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Aug
18
Insights About A Spinal Cord Injury After a Colorado Motor Vehicle Accident
Perhaps an overtired commercial trucker veered into your lane on a snowy Denver freeway and slammed your vehicle into the guardrails. Or maybe you received the horrible news via phone that your daughter landed in the hospital after being involved in a collision with a DUI driver. In either case, you need actionable insight about what to do regarding the accident and the spinal cord injury that it caused. 36.5% of all spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are caused by motor vehicle accidents, and the consequences can be severe. According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA), 45% of these …
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Aug
11
Subtle and Not So Subtle Consequences of a Traumatic Brain Injury
1.7 million Americans suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) every year, and 52,000 of these people die from their injuries. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, TBIs can be quite subtle, and the consequences of brain injuries can be diverse. In the immediate wake of a motor vehicle accident, fall, violent attack or sports injury, the brain-injured individual may experience obvious symptoms, such as swelling in the brain, blacking out, nausea, convulsions, memory loss or loss of speech. The nature and severity of the brain injury depends on numerous factors, including: The quality of medical care and therapy given. The angle of the blow …
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Spinal Cord Injury After a Colorado Motorcycle Accident: Prioritizing Next Steps
graveled road, collided with a car at an intersection or flipped after the steering column locked, you suffered serious damage, possibly including traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. In addition to your pain and medical problems, your ride may be wrecked, you may be too hurt to work, and you might be reeling from the emotional trauma and shock from the accident. Prioritizing Problem Solving After a Big Motorcycle Crash The sheer number of challenges created by a motorcycle wreck – particularly one severe enough to cause paraplegia, quadriplegia or spinal injury – can be overwhelming. It wasn’t as …
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Jun
27
How Do My Injuries from My Accident Affect My Personal Injury Case?
When individuals ask what their case is worth, there are a lot of factors that go into it. One of the largest factors is what a person’s injuries are. The more severe injuries (brain injury, disc bulge, wrongful death), then the more severe the damages are. The reasons the damages are generally much greater with more severe injuries is due to the greater amount of pain and suffering that you go through, the more expensive the medical treatment is that you necessitate, the chance that you may have permanent impairment, and the greatly likelihood that you have past lost wages …
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May
31
Whose Insurance Can a Pedestrian Recover from If Hit By a Car?
Pedestrian accidents happen all too frequently, the National Highway and Traffic Safety Association stated that from 2000 to 2008 there were almost 6,000 pedestrian accidents (accidents when a motor vehicle – car, truck, motorcycle – hits a pedestrian). The highest percentage of these pedestrian accidents, happen when the vehicle is making some kind of turn. If a pedestrian is hit by a motor vehicle and suffers injuries and dies, that individual, or their family, can recover against the driver of the vehicle’s insurance. These pedestrian accidents require investigation in regards to liability, to ensure that the driver cannot try and …
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