Paraplegia and paralysis injury cases

Stephen D. Phillips: He explains what paraplegia is, how any wrongdoer can be held liable for its effects, and how a case seeks to show both the cause of the injury and what the injury does to daily life.

Attorney Stephen D. Phillips · Personal Injury FAQs · 1-minute 39-second answer

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Any type of significant trauma can cause paraplegia paralysis. It’s an injury to the muscles or nerves or brain or central nervous system that causes the inability to move. Paraplegia is as devastating as they come. We’ve all seen people in wheelchairs, but what people don’t understand is beyond that chair are a multitude of significant issues. Pressure sores. The inability to move from a bed to a chair, inability to walk. Every single activity of daily living that healthy people take for granted are encountered by paraplegics and paralyzed people every minute of every day. Any wrongdoer, whether it be intentional or through carelessness or neglect or professional negligence, can be held liable for the effects of paraplegia. Paralysis is a horrendous injury, and at Phillips Law Offices what we do is we strive to show that both the cause of the injury, but as importantly, the effects of the injury. I’ve been handling paraplegia cases since I finished law school. When I became a lawyer, we had paraplegia cases in my father’s office that I was assigned to right out of law school. And at Phillips Law Offices, we have evolved over the course of 30 years. We uncover every stone to determine what was the cause of the paraplegia. How did it happen? How could it have been prevented? And we use some of the best experts in the country, cutting-edge technology, to present the paraplegia case in the most persuasive and demonstrative manner we can.

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