Neck and Back Injuries

Back and Neck Injury Litigation

Even without spinal cord damage, traumatic or degenerative injury to the soft tissues of the neck or back can result in severe pain, loss of mobility, interference with work, and in extreme cases, permanent disability. To learn about your right to compensation in a severe back or neck injury case, contact a personal injury lawyer at Shea & Shea in San Jose, California.

Motor vehicle accidents, industrial injuries, or falls from heights can cause extensive soft tissue damage to intervertebral discs, muscles, and tendons. Swelling and scarring can aggravate the pressure on disc tissue with the consequence of impingement on the nerves radiating from the spinal cord. Severe cases of neck or back injury can involve chronic and severe radiating pain along the nerves to an arm or leg, which can further result in a practical inability to maintain any sitting or standing position for more than twenty or thirty minutes. Surgery to correct the problem is not always successful.

At Shea & Shea, our focus on severe back injury litigation enables us to develop the facts relating to the nature and extent of your medical and economic damages. We work with pain management specialists, neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, and vocational rehabilitation experts to make sure that all aspects of your damages claim are properly identified and supported with specific and qualified evidence. Our familiarity with the diagnosis and treatment of severe neck or back injuries also allows us to help you obtain the tests that will show your injury, and our forensic medical and biomechanical experts can usually relate the injury to a specific cause.

In soft tissue neck and back injury cases, even where the defendant's liability is beyond question, the defendant's insurers will very often contest the victim's damages claims. In our experience, they will question your need for future surgery, downplay expenses for adaptive technology or home assistance, and characterize your claims of pain and discomfort as overstated. We know how to confront and overcome resistance to the recognition of your overall damages claims through both technical and lay evidence.

We accept severe back and neck injury cases on a contingent fee basis, and we advance the expenses involved in documenting your claims at our own risk. We only recover attorneys' fees and expenses when we collect damages on your behalf through settlement or at trial. For a free consultation about our ability to help support your physical recovery and advance your financial interests through personal injury litigation, contact an experienced San Jose accident compensation attorney at Shea & Shea.