You need experienced and effective legal counsel when an injury causes long-term paralysis. Working with a respected catastrophic injury attorney can ensure you get access to all the services and care you need, allowing you to focus on recovery.
The Boca Raton paralysis injury lawyers at Werner, Hoffman, Greig, & Garcia can provide aggressive advocacy, with decades of experience behind us. We have a track record of successfully representing people with serious injuries and want to help you acquire the compensation you need.
When you pursue compensation after an injury, you must prove another involved party was negligent. Negligence occurs when a person, company, or government agency does not take reasonable care to protect others from injury.
In most contexts, negligence means failing to take reasonable care to prevent injuries to others. A negligent party who caused your injuries is liable for paying your losses. Our Boca Raton attorneys will thoroughly investigate to identify all the parties involved in your paralysis injury and hold them accountable.
When dealing with a catastrophic injury like paralysis, your first step should be to seek immediate medical attention. If possible, you or a family member should take note of all potential evidence, as it will help your claim later. If your injury occurred in a high traffic area, such as Glades Road or near Mizner Park, surveillance footage and witnesses may be available. When you have been treated, reach out to a personal injury attorney as soon as possible. Our team is here for you at every stage and want to be as helpful as possible throughout your recovery.
We will handle communication with the responsible parties and their insurance companies, protecting you from pressure to settle for less than you deserve. We will build a legal case and ensure you meet the two-year deadline set in Florida Statute § 95.11.
Crucially, we can make payment arrangements with healthcare providers and other creditors. Our team can help you apply for disability payments and other benefits to ensure you have income while you recover.
Paralysis is life-altering. When someone else bears primary responsibility for the incident that led to the paralysis, they are responsible for paying financial damages.
Your damages include out-of-pocket costs and future expenses you incur due to the injury. You can claim medical expenses, diminished income, future injury-related losses, and incidental costs related to your injury. Serious collisions resulting in paralysis can occur on congested roads like Glades Road, leading to high medical bills, long-term rehabilitation costs, and lost wages.
Non-economic damages are compensation for your reduced quality of life after the accident. The attorneys at Werner, Hoffman, Greig, & Garcia can use medical and pharmacy records, photographs, personal journals, and testimony from you and family members to prove the impact of the paralysis on your quality of life.
Sometimes. In cases where there is evidence that the responsible party acted intentionally or with gross negligence, Florida Statute § 768.072 allows you to claim punitive damages.
Meeting the standard of proof to justify punitive damages is challenging, but possible in some cases. For example, driving while drunk is both an intentional choice and grossly negligent, and might merit a punitive damages award.
Among adults and children, motor vehicle accidents and sports injuries are the most common causes of paralysis. For older adults, falls often cause spinal cord injuries leading to paralysis. If this incident was due to someone else’s negligence, you might have grounds for a claim.
Paralysis is life-altering and it may be months before you can begin to adapt to the physical, emotional, and financial impact of your injury. When the incident resulted from another party’s carelessness or recklessness, they should be held fully accountable for the devastation they have caused.
The skilled Boca Raton paralysis injury lawyers at Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia will fight aggressively to make sure you receive maximum compensation that reflects the severity of your injuries. We will stand by your side, handle the legal battle, and take on the insurance companies so that you can focus on your recovery. You do not pay us unless we win, so do not wait to reach out. Contact us today for a free consultation and let us fight for the justice and financial recovery that you deserve.
