Santa Rosa Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer
If you or a family member has suffered a spinal cord injury, the highly skilled and knowledgeable team of attorneys at the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara wants to first of all express our most sincere wishes for your speedy and full recovery. During this challenging time, you and your family need to focus on your recovery while an experienced and highly skilled Santa Rosa spinal cord injury lawyer handles the complicated legal aspects of filing and defending your personal injury claim.
If the spinal cord injury sustained was due to the negligence or carelessness of others or if an insurance carrier refuses to adequately compensate you for your losses, the legal services of our personal injury attorneys will ensure that those parties honor their obligations to restore your financial circumstances and long-term health and wellbeing.
Spinal Cord Injury Attorney
The National Center for Injury Prevention (NCIP) has reported that over 1,000,000 Americans suffer a serious injury to the brain or spinal cord every year. Sadly, children account for almost 33% of those injuries. The expense for caring and supporting a victim of a serious spinal cord injury over his/her life span are staggering. When these injuries are derived from another party’s negligent actions or error, we can help you. Our highly experienced team of attorneys thoroughly investigates and pursues your claims with a strong commitment to mitigate the cost of medical care to you and your family.
Spinal cord injuries are many more times permanent and they are always life changing. Therefore, they must be carefully handled with experience and care. These types of injuries have a tremendously dramatic effect on the lives of the victim and their families. Oftentimes, spinal cord injuries result in permanent paralysis that are often caused by the negligence of others in a variety of ways such as:
- Surgical errors or malpractice.
- Recreational accidents.
- Birth injuries.
- Motor vehicle accidents and crashes.
- Industrial accidents.
- Defective products or improperly maintained machinery.
- Accidental exposure to toxic spills and chemicals.
The team of personal injury attorneys at the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara not only have the knowledge, skill and practical experience in spinal cord injury litigation to ensure you receive full and fair compensation for all expenses and suffering, but they have the compassion and tenacity to get you through the difficult times ahead.
Our clients who have suffered brain and spinal cord injuries and their close friends and families will require attorneys with specific skill and expertise in the medical, physical, financial, and emotional impact on the injured victim. Our team of attorneys have represented numerous victims who have sustained catastrophic and life threatening injuries and fully understand that injuries to the spinal cord and brain have long-term consequences that need to be addressed early on to ensure that all necessary treatments and rehabilitation are provided in a timely manner so that the injured party’s financial health and wellbeing is not irreparably harmed.
Not only does our team of attorneys have a sincere and unabiding concern and compassion for our injured clients and their families, but we take pride in our work to support you full recovery over the long-term. In addition, our attorneys and our experts have cutting edge knowledge, skill, and competency in the fields of orthopedic medicine, neuroscience, and many of the alternative modalities for vocational rehabilitation. Our attorneys at the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara understand the necessity for life care planning and the most effective way to calculate these costs into a comprehensive settlement package that will last a lifetime.
Unfortunately, everything that has to do with brain and spinal cord injuries is magnified: The suffering, the complexity of the medical interventions and treatments, the length of treatment and rehabilitation, the long-term effects, the costs, and the impact on the victim’s life and family—that is why you need a compassionate team of highly skilled and experienced attorneys on your side!
Working With an Experienced North Bay Spinal Cord Injury Attorney
The personal injury lawyers at the Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara represent injured people who have suffered serious spinal cord injuries caused by the negligence and carelessness of other people, businesses or governmental entities. First, we establish proof of liability and work hard with our experts to calculate a true value for equitable compensation. Our many years of negotiation yields comprehensive settlements for many similarly-situated clients up to the upper limits that the insurance carriers can be made to pay to compensate our clients for subjective claims, such as pain and suffering, emotional distress, punitive damages, loss of consortium, and loss of enjoyment of life—“The right attorney makes all the difference.”
Due to the hard work and due diligence of our team of spinal cord injury attorneys, we dramatically increase the probability that you will receive full compensation for the loss of earnings, pain and suffering, medical costs and expenses. We have the ability to also arrange medical treatment for those clients who lack adequate personal health insurance who otherwise would not have the means to obtain necessary treatment and follow up. Our law firm since 1992 has been known to be a client-service focused law firm that puts people first! Our motivation stems from the needs of our clients to fully restore their physical and financial health following any life changing spinal cord or brain injury accident. We have been known in the community to operate with the highest of ethical standards in our dealings with our clients and with the public. This includes opposing counsel and insurers. However, we also fight aggressively to preserve and advance your claims against all parties and will never accept a result that is less than you deserve.
How a North Bay Spinal Cord Injury Law Firm Can Help
Spinal cord injuries often result in long-term or life-long changes and challenges for victims and their families. North Bay spinal cord injury attorney Michael A. Fiumara and his team of highly skilled and knowledgeable attorneys understand the unique and complex challenges that impact injured parties and their personal injury claims.
California personal injury claims for spinal cord injuries require significant considerations that go beyond your immediate medical needs. Accepting a quick settlement will likely bar you from obtaining the full compensation that you will need for your future care, follow up, and wellness.
The Law Offices of Michael A. Fiumara can explain all of your legal rights and help you determine the full range of compensation that you may be able to recover under the law for your spinal cord injuries.
California severely limits the amount of time that you have to file a claim for damages in civil court and that depends upon many factors for which you should come into the office for a free and confidential consultation. In the case of public entities who may have caused your spinal cord injuries, you have a much shorter statute of limitations, usually only six months but for the rest involving private entities up to two years from the time of the incident and if a minor is injured then the time frame is still different and subject to change, of course. So, for our clients in the North Bay area, it is paramount that you or a family member contact our team of attorneys as soon as feasibly possible after the accident. There are many common causes of accidents which result in spinal cord injuries but they are not limited to those mentioned below, which include:
- Tour bus accidents.
- Trolley car and cable car accidents.
- Train, metro and subway accidents.
- Motorcycle accidents.
- Airplane accidents and skids.
- Pedestrian and crosswalk accidents.
- Auto accidents.
- Bicycle accidents.
- Limousine, Uber, and taxi accidents.
- Truck accidents.
We work tirelessly to obtain compensation for all of your current and future needs, including medical care, rehabilitation, assistive medical equipment, and any other needs that arise as a result of your injuries in the short-term and long-term.
Please call our office at (707) 571-8600 in our centrally located Santa Rosa office in Sonoma County to schedule a free and confidential case evaluation today.
