Legal Support for Life After Paralysis

If you become partially or fully paralyzed in an accident that occurred due to another’s fault, then you may have a right of action for damages under California law. Paralysis injuries are among the most severe and life-altering that a victim can experience. In many such cases, the plaintiff may not have any reasonable options for recovery and may instead have to simply adjust to their new limitations. So ,this can impose a significant burden on a plaintiff from a career, social and personal perspective. Quite simply, life will never be the same.

Given the degree of loss associated with serious paralysis injuries, also the damages involved are likely to be substantial. Here at Prestige Law Personal Injury & Car Accident Lawyers, our attorneys have the tools and experience necessary to secure the maximum available compensation. So, contact a Los Angeles catastrophic injury attorney at our firm to learn more about how we can help.

Paralysis can lead to a variety of losses, including, but not limited to:

• Extensive medical expenses (surgery, treatment, and rehabilitation)
• Wage loss due to inability to perform the job
• Loss of earning capacity due to long-term impairments
• Emotional distress
• Physical pain and suffering associated with the trauma
• Loss of enjoyment of life (i.e., inability to engage in favorite recreational activities, harm to
  one’s social life, etc.)

About my thinking in asserting damages for paralysis, there may be difficulties in proving that your impairment is sufficiently severe to justify the claimed losses. For example, if you are claiming that you can no longer work (and are therefore entitled to wage loss compensation until retirement age). So, you may have to show that you cannot reasonably retrain and pivot to a desk job or some other alternative career.  And you can strengthen your argument by introducing the supportive testimony of expert witnesses in the vocational field, as well as the testimony of expert medical witnesses.