Orange County Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer

Decades of Experience as Former Defense Lawyers

The Law Office of Marshall Silberberg has the experience, the knowledge, the determination and the passion to seek the maximum fair compensation for our clients and their family members. We advocate for the rights of our clients who have suffered spinal injuries as a result of an accident caused by another or from surgical mishaps that should never have occurred.

Trust our Orange County spinal cord injury lawyers to effectively represent your case. Call (949) 565-4281 or contact us online to learn more about your legal options in a free consultation.

Common Causes of Spinal Cord Injuries

If you have suffered serious spinal injury, such as a herniated disc, nerve damage, fractured vertebrae, paralysis or quadriplegia, or your loved one has been seriously injured by an accident or negligence, you have a right to seek the compensation you need.

Common causes of spinal cord injuries include:

• Falls
• Acts of violence
• Industrial accidents
• Car accidents
• Motorcycle accidents
• Medical malpractice
• Pedestrian accidents
• Truck accidents
• Bicycle accidents
• Bus accidents
• Scooter accidents

The causes of spinal cord injuries vary. Our firm will thoroughly investigate your circumstances in order to determine who may be held liable for your injuries.

Long-Term Effects of a Spinal Cord Injury

When almost all feeling and ability to control movement are lost below the spinal cord, this is referred to as a “complete” injury. If you still have some of your motor or sensory function below the injured area, your injury is “incomplete.” There are also several kinds of paralysis that can occur when you injure your spinal cord, from tetraplegia to quadriplegia. 

A spinal cord injury of any severity can result in:

• Loss of sensation
• Loss of movement
• Loss of bladder or bowel control
• Difficulty breathing, coughing or clearing secretions from your lungs
• Pain or an intense stinging sensation in your spinal cord
• Changes in sexual sensitivity, function and fertility

If you have experienced significant trauma to your spinal cord due to someone else’s negligence or recklessness, please contact our Orange County spinal cord injury attorneys at the Law Office of Marshall Silberberg immediately. We can evaluate your case, advise you of your rights, and guide you through the entire legal process. 

Understanding the Real Cost of a Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal cord injuries are one of the most catastrophic injuries a person can experience. 

Even such an injury that is diagnosed as comparatively mild will likely cause permanent and debilitating effects. If you have suffered spine damage, in order to properly pursue compensation in the form of a personal injury claim, you will need to gain a full understanding of all the costs of your spinal cord injury, both financial and physical.

Financial Costs

The financial costs of a spinal cord injury may include:

• Emergency care: Many spinal cord injuries are caused by violent accidents, such as a car accident or truck accident, and will require the injured parties to be taken into emergency care at once. High costs are often associated with any emergency surgery or procedure.
• Hospitalization: Recovering from spine damage may take weeks, months, or longer in the hospital and under intensive care. The costs for such an extended stay in nearly guaranteed to exhaust a person’s healthcare insurance coverage and could eventually range into the millions of dollars.
• Rehabilitation: After leaving the hospital, a patient with a spinal cord injury will rarely be entirely finished with recovery. Frequent rehabilitative therapy may be necessary to restore use of body parts and mobility. Some patients need rehabilitation for the rest of their lives, which can quickly pile up bills.
• Lost wages: Returning to work with a spinal cord injury can be extremely difficult, if not impossible. Even office jobs at a desk can cause unbearable pain in the damaged region. The wages lost while recovering and possibly after becoming unable to keep gainful employment should be considered in any resulting personal injury claims.

Physical Costs

The physical costs of a spinal cord injury can vary, such as:

• Paralysis: It is not uncommon for a spinal cord injury to cause some sort of paralysis: temporary, permanent, partial, and/or total. Patients often describe the sudden loss of control of a body part emotionally devastating. Such nominal damages need to be calculated in your claim.
• Loss of independence: People living with serious spinal cord injuries may not be able to function well at all on their own. Relying on loved ones and caretakers can be uncomfortable, and the loss of independence an unpredicted physical cost of the injury.
• Lessened enjoyment of life: Understandably, many people who have suffered a permanent spinal cord injury will report that their overall enjoyment of life has been lessened, due to chronic pain, feelings of helplessness, or both.

When you come to our spinal cord injury lawyers in Orange County for legal advocacy, we will want to start by fully evaluating your case and identifying any and all damages that could be pertinent to your claim. From there, we can build a case that protects your right to recovery and best interests.

Recent Cases

A recent case we settled with a Southern California municipality involved our client, who had been arrested for leaving the scene of an accident. He was drunk at the time. The police handcuffed him, threw him to the ground, and broke his neck. He was not paralyzed — yet. However, during his incarceration, he became quadriplegic.

Another case involved a woman who repeatedly sought medical care for pain she had in her back. What was diagnosed as urinary incontinence resulted in a condition of paraplegia due to failure to diagnose stenosis. These kinds of misdiagnoses and medical errors should never happen. Yet they do all the time.

Call the Law Office of Marshall Silberberg today at (949) 565-4281 or send us a message to speak with our spinal cord injury attorneys in Orange County, CA. Se habla Español!