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If you bring a lawsuit against the person or party responsible for your spinal cord injury, you may recover damages to compensate for a wide range of harms you suffered, including:
- Medical treatment costs including ambulance and emergency services, hospital stay, surgery, followup visits, diagnostic imaging, medication, and travel to and from the hospital/doctor
- Estimated future medical expenses for continued spinal cord treatment and residence in a long-term nursing care facility when a spinal cord injury victim needs around-the-clock care
- Costs for rehabilitation, especially physical therapy to help patients potentially regain function and avoid muscle atrophy and occupational therapy to assist patients in learning how to perform daily tasks with their disability
- Mental health treatment expenses so spinal cord injury victims can work thorough the anguish and distress of their injury with a trained professional
- Costs for assistive devices such as wheelchairs and walkers
- Costs for technology to help with communication, pain, and other challenges
- Lost wages for time away from work as a result of the injury, treatment, and recovery
- Estimated future lost wages when a spinal cord injury prevents a victim from returning to work or seeking employment in the future
- Home modification costs to increase accessibility such as building wheelchair ramps and installing handrails
- Physical pain and suffering
- Emotional pain and suffering
- Decreased quality of life
- Loss of consortium with a spouse
- Punitive damages when a spinal cord injury occurs as a result of willful harm or gross negligence
There is no guarantee you will recover all, or even any, of these categories of damages, of course. However, the most reliable way to give yourself the best possible chance of obtaining maximum compensation is to hire our experienced Atlantic City spinal cord injury attorneys as soon as possible.