Spinal cord injuries are a particularly devastating and complicated ailment. Your injury requires your total, undivided attention. However, medical services, lost income, and the other challenges that come with a spinal cord injury demand a full and fair financial recovery. Let recovery be your concern while your insurance claim or lawsuit becomes our top priority.
A Fayetteville spinal cord injury lawyer from Riddle & Riddle, Accident Injury Lawyers, will handle every step of your case. Whether you file an insurance claim or pursue a lawsuit, our attorneys will work to ensure you receive every dime you need (and are entitled to).
Call Riddle & Riddle Accident Injury Lawyers today for your free consultation.
Table of Contents
- Look No Further Than Riddle & Riddle Injury Lawyerss for Your Spinal Cord Injury Attorney in Fayetteville
- Our Attorneys Understand the Cost and Impact of a Spinal Cord Injury
- Damages We Plan to Include in Your Fayetteville Spinal Cord Injury Case
- Ours Is a Full-Service Law Firm (Here’s What to Expect from Your Attorney)
- You Must Not Wait to Hire Your Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer From Riddle & Riddle
Look No Further Than Riddle & Riddle Accident Injury Lawyers for Your Spinal Cord Injury Attorney in Fayetteville
The name Riddle & Riddle Accident Injury Lawyers has become synonymous with large settlements and verdicts, unparalleled client service, and pain-free legal experiences.
This is by design, as our firm offers:
- More than 220 years of combined legal experience: If there is a single criterion you want in a spinal cord injury attorney, it’s experience. While our attorneys offer many other high-value traits (like trustworthiness and compassion), our experience stands out. With more than two combined centuries of legal experience on our team, we will work together to identify the legal solutions you need.
- More than 39 years serving North Carolinians, including clients in Fayetteville: Our firm’s roots extend throughout North Carolina, and they have only grown deeper over nearly four decades. Our firm’s mission is to use our legal training and experience to assist those who need help. If you or a loved one have suffered a spinal cord injury, you deserve our help.
- More than $800 million recovered for clients since 2000 alone: Results separate an average or good law firm from a great one. We consider ourselves a great firm, and our results suggest the same. With more than $800 million recovered for clients over the past quarter century, you cannot speak of Riddle & Riddle Accident Injury Lawyers without speaking about our overwhelming success on clients’ behalf.
- The resources to work with top-flight medical experts: With our sustained success, we have amassed the resources to build cases of the highest quality. We hire preeminent medical experts to contribute to our spinal cord injury lawsuits and take any other measure that will increase the likelihood of your case’s success.
- Familiarity with complex spinal cord injuries and cases: Spinal cord injuries can create multi-million-dollar stressors for victims and their families. When you choose your attorney from our firm, you should have no doubt that we will provide effective legal services (as we have for many other spinal cord injury victims).
Justice counts at Riddle & Riddle Accident Injury Lawyers. When you suffer a spinal cord injury, nothing short of full and fair justice will do. Trust our team serving Fayetteville to accurately value the true cost of your injury and demand fair compensation, whether during settlement negotiations or at trial.
Pay Close Attention to Our Verdicts and Settlements
There are many reasons to choose us for your spinal cord injury case in Fayetteville, but our case results may top the list.
Some of our firm’s most notable case results secured for clients in North Carolina include:
- $9.45 million for clients who tragically lost a loved one due to a fatal truck accident
- $7.85 million for a class of clients seriously injured by an explosion
- $5.25 million for a family whose child suffered life-altering injuries (like a spinal cord injury)
- $3.6 million for another client irreparably harmed by a wrongful death
These are only four of the many settlements and verdicts our lawyers have obtained for our clients. Let these results prove our lawyers are tireless negotiators and skilled trial attorneys. Whatever your case takes, know that you have a proven legal team fighting for you in Riddle & Riddle Accident Injury Lawyers.
Our Attorneys Understand the Cost and Impact of a Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal cord injuries cannot be discussed in the same breath as any other injury. As the channel that houses critical nerves and provides essential support for everything we do, an injury to the spine can be devastating in numerous ways.
Some of the difficult realities that spinal cord injury victims face often include:
Crushing Financial Burdens
Studies show that healthcare for those with spinal cord injuries often means ongoing medical costs. Making financial stress even greater, those with spinal cord injuries are often unable to do the same job they performed before becoming injured.
Sudden Changes in Physical Abilities
Spinal cord injuries can cause a wide range of debilitating physical changes, including:
- Numbness, tingling, and other sensational abnormalities
- Reduced physical strength
- Paralysis (total loss of muscle control)
- Muscles remaining constantly or regularly flexed (known as spasticity)
You may also suffer cardiovascular abnormalities and other physical symptoms that interfere with you living your life. These physical changes may prevent you from exercising, walking, and engaging in activities that provide excitement and relief.
Devastating Psychological and Emotional Challenges
The experience of suffering a spinal cord injury and the challenges of being injured can be devastating.
Your Fayetteville spinal cord injury lawyer from Riddle & Riddle Accident Injury Lawyers will hire a mental health professional to:
- Discuss the effects of the event(s) that led you to suffer a spinal cord injury.
- Speak with you about how living with a spinal cord injury has affected you.
- Diagnose any general and specific conditions you have suffered, like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.
Many people who suffer spinal cord injuries struggle with the reality of physical limitations, chronic pain, and other symptoms. Our team serving Fayetteville will account for your injury’s psychological and emotional effects.
Loss of Independence
You may be unable to care for yourself after suffering a spinal cord injury, especially at first. While you may steadily regain independence, relying on others can be difficult.
Long-Term Lifestyle Changes
While each injury is different, the typical spinal cord injury is a long-term ordeal. You may face long-term medical appointments, indefinite rehabilitation, and other demands. You may also need to learn how to live within the confines of your injury symptoms.
The Fayetteville spinal cord injury attorneys at Riddle & Riddle Accident Injury Lawyers provide the compassion and competence you deserve.
Damages We Plan to Include in Your Fayetteville Spinal Cord Injury Case
Your lawyer will need to obtain compensation for every damage related to and resulting from your spinal cord injury, which likely includes:
Medical Expenses
Those who suffer a spinal cord injury may need:
- Ambulance or Medevac transport (from the scene of a fall, auto accident, or other event that caused the injury)
- Extensive emergency medical care, which can be particularly expensive
- One or more surgeries (which may include stabilizing procedures)
- Medical imaging (including but not limited to X-rays) to diagnose the injury
- Multiple physical exams
Our lawyers are very familiar with the cost of medical services, including those specific to spinal cord injuries. Your attorney will consult your doctor to ensure we accurately evaluate and determine the cost of your medical needs.
Rehabilitation Expenses
Strength and coordination deficits caused by spinal cord injuries can require long-term rehab. We will include rehabilitation services and related transportation costs in your claim or lawsuit.
Mental Health Service Costs
Many victims of spinal cord injuries have found themselves in dark places.
You must receive all necessary mental health services, which can include:
- A stay in a facility meant to help you recover (physically, psychologically, or otherwise)
- Counseling, therapy, and other forms of one-on-one or group treatment
- Medications
- Any other form of treatment that can benefit you psychologically, emotionally, or otherwise
Even if you have insurance covering mental health services, accessing such coverage can lead to higher premiums. Our team will demand that parties responsible for your spinal cord injury (or their insurance providers) cover the cost of your mental health services.
Pain and Suffering
Our team serving Fayetteville finds that most clients face pain and suffering. When you have an injury affecting your spinal cord, such non-economic harm is all but guaranteed.
Some types of pain and suffering related to your spinal cord injury may include:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Suicidal thoughts (the devastation of a spinal cord injury can be truly debilitating)
- Lost quality of life
- Chronic pain
- Scarring and other types of disfigurement
While our attorneys are quite familiar with various types of pain and suffering, we frequently involve mental health experts in our cases. These experts can provide detailed diagnoses of your pain and suffering, treatment recommendations, and other services that prove valuable to your case.
Professional Damages
Most jobs, from accountants to manual laborers, are challenging to do with a spinal cord injury.
The severity and nature of your injury may determine if you suffer:
- Lost income
- Diminished earning capacity
- Any other professional damages
Some injury victims reduce their hours or change their roles to still earn a living while they recover. However, in many cases, someone with a spinal cord injury is permanently disabled and unable to support themselves by working.
Other Economic and Non-Economic Damages Related to the Spinal Cord Injury
Our lawyers know very well that every client faces different challenges, bills, symptoms, and recovery needs. We never make assumptions or guess about a client’s damages. Rather, we will speak with you, consult our experts, and create a detailed and definite record of your recoverable damages.
Ours Is a Full-Service Law Firm (Here’s What to Expect from Your Attorney)
Whether a client has a relatively minor injury or an ailment as serious as a spinal fracture, our lawyers handle the case from start to finish. This is why you hire a lawyer—to recover from your spinal cord injury as much as physically possible while we fight for the money you deserve.
Our team will ensure you receive the care and treatment you need. At the same time, your Fayetteville spinal cord injury attorney will be:
Securing Relevant Evidence and Establishing Liability for Your Damages
Our firm handles a wide swathe of case types that can relate to a spinal cord injury. The type of accident that caused your injury will be relevant to how we seek evidence and what evidence we ultimately obtain.
Some common types of evidence in spinal cord injury cases include:
- Expert testimony about whose negligence caused you to suffer the injury
- Video footage of a harmful event (like a fall) or circumstances that led you to suffer the injury
- Witness accounts detailing the event that caused the injury or circumstances that contributed to the event
- Photographs of conditions that caused or followed your spinal cord injury
Our firm will pay an expert to reconstruct the event(s) that led to your injury if necessary.
Painting a Vivid Picture of Your Damages
Your lawyer serving Fayetteville will use documentation to prove your damages. We will pull medical and employment records, secure copies of invoices and medical bills, arrange expert evaluations, and take other necessary measures to illustrate your damages.
Negotiating a Settlement With Insurance Companies or Civil Defense Lawyers
Our lawyers have a goal to strive towards. The target will be the financial value of your damages. This value will determine how much money we demand during settlement negotiations.
Guiding You Through Any Necessary Lawsuit and Trial
We hope liable parties will meet our settlement demands, but there’s no guarantee they will. If you need to sue liable parties to pursue a full and fair financial recovery, our team will lead you through the legal process.
You Must Not Wait to Hire Your Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer From Riddle & Riddle
Our Fayetteville spinal cord injury lawyers typically face a statute of limitations for filing lawsuits. Please don’t wait to speak with our team, as we need to start building your case right away.
Call Riddle & Riddle Accident Injury Lawyers Today for your free, no-risk consultation, (910) 387-9186.
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