LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – A 3-year-old girl whose skull was fractured by a line drive during batting practice at Dodger Stadium was scheduled for surgery on Tuesday. The accident that caused the surgery occurred Monday when Dodgers catcher Russell Martin hit a line drive in the stands near third base. It hit the girl and knocked her unconscious according to Dodgers spokesman Joe Jareck. The girl was sitting with her father at the time and he rushed he to the first aid station. The Fire Department subsequently transported the girl to ...
ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA – A bus rider called the Sheriff’s Department Tuesday when he thought the driver was under the influence of alcohol. Deputies stopped the bus, route 309 from Oceanside to Encinitas, at around 4:30 p.m. The bus was heading east on Encinitas Boulevard near Calle Magdalena at the time. According to the Sheriff’s Department, the deputies determined the driver showed signs of being under the influence of alcohol. They subsequently conducted field sobriety tests. Based on the results of those tests, the 40-year-old driver was booked on suspicion of driving ...
How a Seattle Spine Injury Attorney Can Protect Your Rights
If you have suffered a spine injury, then you are in a very special category. Your life, perhaps more than any other victims, is changed forever, and until medicine finds a way to repair your spinal cord, you will be in your current state for the rest of your life. Whether your spinal cord injury was due to a vehicular accident, an accident at work, a slip and fall, or even medical negligence, it is important that you make contact with a spine injury attorney as soon as you can.
Because a spinal injury is so severe and absorbs so much of the emotions and strength of the entire family, most people don?t begin thinking about hiring any kind of lawyer until they are denied assistance. Unfortunately, that is often too late. If you have a severe injury to your spine or back, you need to get the most care you can as quickly as possible to enable you to recover to the best of your ability. A spinal injury attorney, one who is experienced in these types of injuries, can help you do just that.
When you get out of the hospital, you are just at the first step in your recovery. Depending on the severity of your spinal injury, you may have to go through months or even years? worth of rehabilitation, and it is not at all unusual for spinal injury patients to undergo multiple surgeries because of their injury. As you can imagine, the toll this takes on a family in terms of their financial stability is debilitating, whether or not the person who was injured was the primary provider.
Regardless of the cause of your accident, or even if you suspect you were partly at fault, it is always worth the time to speak to a spine injury attorney as soon as possible. It is the best way to ensure that your rights are protected and that you are given the properly compensation for what could be a lifelong battle for you and your family. The initial cost of dealing with a spinal cord injury is astronomical, and the loss of financial power over the years could reach well into the millions.
Also, a spine injury lawyer will be able to put you in touch with the right doctors, the right therapists, and the right social services, so you are able to get everything that you should have coming to you. They will enable you to get the highest settlement possible for your injuries, which will include loss of wages, loss of future earnings, pain and suffering, and of course compensation for current and future medical bills. In the case of a younger person, this can amount to an extraordinary amount of money, so having the right Seattle spinal injury attorney on your side to fight for you is something you need to do right away.