A fire fighter from Duns was airlifted to a hospital after being seriously hurt while dealing with a blaze in the Borders. He lost the use of his legs after suffering serious spinal injuries when a beam fell on him while fighting a fire at the Eye mouth golf club.…
New York Spinal Injury Lawyers understand that accidents can happen anywhere at any time, which is why they are always ready to assist when someone needs compensation after suffering an injury. Something as mundane as a trip to the supermarket resulted in an injurious fall for one 54-year-old woman. The…
Spinal cord injury, or SCI, can be classified as complete or incomplete, according to New York Spinal Injury Lawyers. A complete spinal cord injury is one that causes permanent paralysis. Incomplete means the injury has the potential of neurologic improvement. Almost half of all spinal cord injuries are complete, which…
Near the end of April, a 38-year-old engineer died of a spinal injury when a part of the Freedom Park wall collapsed on his car. He had been sitting in the car talking on his phone. He left behind a wife and a 2-year-old daughter. The mechanical engineer by training…
December 2006 saw a settlement reached between a 17-year-old gymnast and the gym she practiced gymnastics at. She was injured at the facility and suffered paralysis in 2005. Details of the case were sealed to the public. “This is a natural occurrence when one or more of the parties involved…
In 1982 jury, in Seattle, Washington, awarded $6.3 million to a high school football player who sustained serious injuries while playing for the school’s team. That judgment worried one school official. He worried that school boards across the country would be prompted to review the benefits of sports programs unfairly…
A 26-year-old listed the toll her body has paid at the hands of a drunk driver: impaired memory, multiple pelvis fractures, knee fracture, knee replacement, deep head and facial gashes, broken and missing teeth, spinal injury, seven facial surgeries, three of which were oral, constant pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression,…
December 2006 saw a settlement reached between a 17-year-old gymnast and the gym she practiced gymnastics at. She was injured at the facility and suffered paralysis in 2005. Details of the case were sealed to the public. “This is a natural occurrence when one or more of the parties involved…
A police officer from Springfield, Ohio, had reason to be upbeat earlier this month when his doctors reported that he now has movement in both of his legs. Earlier it was feared he might never walk again. The officer was hit by a pickup truck while on duty at the…