Spinal cord injuries can be devastating. They impact every aspect of an individual's life - and the lives of loved ones. Those who experience spinal cord injuries frequently endure significant physical pain, emotional anguish, and so much more. Spinal cord injuries also necessitate enormous expenses.

 

Those who have suffered a spinal cord injury require a legal team dedicated to helping facilitate required treatments, assessments with appropriate medical experts, and ensuring you receive every possible dollar in available compensation - because it will matter.

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Individuals who suffer spinal cord injuries in car accidents, motorcycle crashes, or as a cyclist or pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle, will have a no-fault accident benefits claim with a car insurance company. Usually, a spinal cord injury victim will be designated as catastrophically impaired and have access to up to $1,000,000 of funds for medical/rehabilitation and attendant care in addition to housekeeping benefits and potentially income replacement benefits.

 

While $1,000,000 sounds like a great deal of money, it is usually grossly insufficient for a spinal cord injury victim. Costs such as personal support workers, extensive home modifications, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, counselling, rehab therapy, assistive devices, and much more can quickly erode the $1,000,000 funding limit.

 

These extensive costs mean that a spinal cord injury lawsuit against a negative individual or company is often necessary to obtain proper compensation. It is also important for the spinal cord injury lawyer handling the case to think creatively about which other individual or companies may be liable for the injury to ensure that there are sufficient insurance policy limits to respond to the claims.

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For example, in a spinal cord injury caused by a car crash, it may not simply be enough find one other driver at fault. It may be that the victim's vehicle had inadequate safety measures which enabled such a severe injury to occur. Sometimes, municipalities have inappropriate or inadequate signage that could have prevented the accident altogether. In a bike accident spinal cord injury, it could be that the municipality did not have wide enough bike lanes and knew that cyclists were frequently being struck, but made no changes. Experienced Ontario personal injury lawyers will retain a variety of engineering experts, road design experts, and product liability engineers to exhaust every avenue of potential funds to compensate a spinal cord injury victim.

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Spinal cord injury victims and their loved ones should interview several experienced Ontario spinal cord injury lawyers and find someone who is experienced and competent - but also someone with whom they are comfortable and trust. 

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Free Consultation with a Spinal Cord Injury Attorney

 

If you are wondering whether you are entitled to compensation for a spinal cord injury, or have questions please don’t hesitate to call us at 705-408-4438 or fill out the form below for a free initial consultation.