Has Your Loved One Been Paralyzed in an Accident?
A serious spinal cord injury is often the first effect of a serious accident, but the symptoms can be the last to be discovered. Make no mistake: a spinal cord injury that does not result in being paralyzed is more than just a simple back injury. There is a major difference. The spine is your central corridor for carrying nerve signals to and from your brain. If your spine is damaged, it can affect the functions of your internal organs and can limit the physical mobility of all or part of your body.
Medical experts warn that a serious spinal cord injury doesn't necessarily result in being paralyzed. If you or a family member has recently been in an accident and is concerned about unusual symptoms, talk to your doctor. Then call the experienced spinal cord injury trial attorneys at Shea & Shea.
At Shea & Shea, we help spinal cord injury victims recover full and fair money damages. Our personal injury attorneys have been helping injury victims throughout California and the western United States for more than 40 years. We have helped individuals and families recover compensation for injuries ranging from herniated discs to quadriplegia. We work with spinal cord injury experts from across the nation to prepare your case for maximum money damages.
You don't have to be a paraplegic to get the legal justice you deserve.
Contact us to schedule a no-cost consultation about your injury claim with an experienced personal injury attorney at Shea & Shea. We handle all cases on contingency. You will not pay attorney's fees if you do not collect compensation in a settlement or jury award.
We have earned national recognition for our successful trial representation for spinal cord injury cases such as:
- Cervical injuries: Often resulting in full paralysis below the neck, also known as quadriplegia
- Thoracic injuries: Often resulting in leg paralysis below the injury at the thoracic level of the spine, also known as paraplegia
- Lumbar and sacral injuries: Resulting in decreased use of legs, extreme pain injuries to other systems
- Injuries to the central cord and discs: Resulting in herniated discs, chronic pain, numbness, paresthesia and loss of range of motion
Nationally recognized for our professional knowledge and technical capacity
Under the direction of Michael Shea Jr., a nationally recognized practitioner of neurolaw, and certified trial specialist Michael Shea, our team has become recognized for our focus on neurolaw cases involving injuries to the spinal cord. Although the majority of our spinal cord injury cases are from the Northern California region surrounding our offices in San Jose, we have handled cases from a number of other western states including Nevada, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.
Our firm has earned the AV rating* from our peers under Martindale-Hubbell’s peer-review ratings system and we are proud members of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. We have helped hundreds of clients recover full money damages for claims relating to injuries suffered to their spines.
Our experience makes a decisive difference: We handle everything.
A spinal cord injury isn't like a broken arm. You are not likely to heal in six to eight weeks, or six to eight months. It's why we won't tell you that we can settle your case quickly. Frankly, we need a full range of time and medical tests to determine what the final affects are likely to be. This process can take months or even years, during which time we will be fighting aggressively to ensure that all your total losses are taken into consideration when deciding upon a final settlement or award.
One goal: To help you recover the maximum money damages you need
Our goal in all cases is to help you recover the money you will need to make the most of your life in the aftermath of an incapacitating accident. That amount is usually many multiples of the settlement offers that an insurer will make until it is convinced of your practical ability to prove the full amount of your claim at trial.
Representing spinal cord injury victims since 1966
Contact us to discuss your spinal cord injury case.
*Certified as Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy
CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories — legal ability and general ethical standards.