In addition to the “cervical” section of your spinal cord, your neck also contains various muscles, tendons, and nerve endings that allow your head to move side-to-side as well as up and down. During a violent incident, such as a car crash, your torso may stay more or less stationary while your head keeps moving forward, or vice versa. This can cause those muscles and tendons in your neck to stretch and sustain significant damage, sometimes to an extent that requires intensive medical treatment and keeps you out of work for a long period of time.
If someone else’s negligence has led to you suffering a whiplash injury that your doctors expect to last for a while, you should strongly consider speaking with a Bridgeport severe whiplash injury lawyer about a possible civil claim. While minor whiplash is generally not a serious enough injury to justify civil litigation, the car crash attorneys at Berkowitz and Hanna, LLC can help you demand comprehensive compensation for the effects of an injury of this nature.
“Whiplash” is a blanket term used to refer to numerous injuries that can affect the soft tissues inside your neck when your head is yanked violently back and forth due to a high-speed impact against your torso, and most of those injuries are fairly minor and will heal completely on their own after a short period of time. However, particularly high-speed impacts may cause more substantial tendon or muscle damage, resulting in a limited range of motion, severe neck pain, and even pain spreading into the shoulders and upper arms.
People who have sustained one or more whiplash injuries before are more susceptible to sustaining severe whiplash injuries from future accidents, as are people of advanced age and people who struggle with chronic back or neck pain. It is important to emphasize, though, that pre-existing conditions like these do not prevent you from filing suit over a new or significantly worsened injury you have sustained due to another person’s misconduct, as a Bridgeport severe whiplash injury attorney can explain in more detail.
Whether your whiplash injury stemmed from a traffic collision, a slip or trip and fall, a criminal act such as assault, or any other scenario, the important thing when it comes to filing civil suit over that injury will be tracing it back to a specific person’s negligence. More specifically, you will need to show through a “preponderance of the evidence” that someone else directly caused you physical harm by committing an irresponsible or unlawful act in violation of a “duty of care” they owed you.
Someone found liable for a severe whiplash injury in Bridgeport can be made to pay financially for every short-term and long-term loss that injury will cause you to experience, including:
If needed, our lawyers can also help you demand compensation for losses that you will experience years or even decades into the future due to a permanent disability stemming from this type of trauma.
On top of being an incredibly painful injury, severe whiplash can also be debilitating, interfering with both your professional and personal life. While money alone cannot completely erase all the effects of trauma like this, it can still do a lot to preserve your financial stability and improve your overall quality of life despite the damage someone else’s misconduct has caused you.
A seasoned Bridgeport severe whiplash injury lawyer from Berkowitz and Hanna, LLC can answer any questions you have about your legal options and offer preliminary guidance about next steps during a free consultation. Call us today to schedule yours.
Berkowitz Hanna
1087 Broad St
Bridgeport CT
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