Spinal Cord Injury

A serious spinal cord injury is a catastrophic, life-changing injury, for the injured person and his or her family. A serious spinal cord injury requires careful attention to the future needs and cost of future care for the injured person. Spinal cord injuries can result in life-long disability and the need for life-long medical care, lifecare assistance, learning assistance, skill training, and household services assistance, among other needs. Such catastrophic injuries require careful analysis of complicated financial damage calculations, large damage awards, well-crafted structured settlements, analysis of the effects of possible reduced life expectancy, and placing values on a person's daily needs for his or her life expectancy. Experienced analysis is required to carefully calculate the future needs of the injured person and place financial values on those needs to ensure appropriate compensation for the catastrophically spine-injured person. The experienced attorney works with a team of gifted medical and economic experts to project the value of the needs of the injured person for his or her expected lifetime to determine the compensation that will provide for these future needs.

A significant percentage of serious spinal cord injuries result from vehicle accidents of all types. The vehicle speeds and impact forces can cause tremendous trauma to the spine in a violent collision. Serious spinal cord injuries can result from truck accidents, auto accidents, bus accidents, railroad accidents, aviation accidents, heavy equipment accidents, vehicle defect accidents, dangerous highway accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, dangerous intersection accidents, maritime accidents, and bicycle accidents. Serious spinal cord injuries can also result from falls, construction site accidents and workplace accidents.

San Diego and California personal injury lawyer, David Lopez has the knowledge, experience, and skill to handle even the most complex spinal cord injury case. David has more than 20 years experience handling serious personal injury lawsuits, many of them involving serious spinal cord injuries. He has extensive experience handling spinal cord injury cases, including quadriplegia, resulting in paralysis or loss of meaningful use of most of the injured person's body, and paraplegia, resulting in paralysis or loss of effective use of the lower part of the injured person's body. David has handled serious personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits resulting from truck accidents, car accidents, pedestrian accidents, motorcycle accidents, railroad accidents, bicycle accidents, bus accidents, rollover accidents, heavy equipment accidents, vehicle defect accidents, dangerous highway accidents, dangerous intersection accidents, construction site accidents, and workplace accidents. He has the experience, knowledge, and skill to handle any serious injury or wrongful death case, even the most complex.

If you or a loved one have suffered a serious spinal cord injury, please contact David Lopez by email at david@davidlopezlaw.com or call him at 619-985-6187 for a free consultation and case evaluation. We work with the best spinal cord injury, life care planning, economic, and accident expert witnesses to present the nature of the spinal cord injury, the financial and medical needs of the spinal cord injured person, and the challenges faced by the spinal cord injured person, in a compelling presentation to help a jury understand the complexities of the serious spinal cord injury and the lifelong effects a serious spinal cord injury has on the injured person.