You are driving home from work when someone runs a red light. In a split second, your day becomes anything but normal. Your car is totaled and you find yourself in the hospital with serious injuries. You know that it wasn’t your fault. You have the police report. You...
In the movies or in popular media, when someone hurts their brain in a car accident or a fall, there are immediate visual signifiers of their internal injury. It is very popular to depict bleeding from orifices on the head as a symptom of a brain injury, but such...
The injuries that people suffer as a result of motor vehicle collisions can lead to permanent changes in re: their lifestyle. For example, it is almost certain that a spinal cord injury amputation or brain injury suffered in a wreck will lead to major reductions in...
Brain injuries are very delicate injuries that can have a wide range of outcomes. In some cases, people will heal fairly quickly. In other cases, they will achieve partial healing, or it will take a long time to fully recover. In still other cases, complete healing...
Car accidents take many forms, but there’s one pattern among virtually all car accidents: there’s a high chance you could suffer a spinal injury. While airbags and seatbelts help cushion people in an accident, they can only help victims so much. Spinal injuries are...
California law requires car insurance, so those affected by a crash should be able to file an insurance claim to recoup their losses. The minimum coverage standards in California necessitate both property damage and bodily injury liability coverage. Some drivers carry...
Spinal cord injuries are subjectively some of the most feared injuries possible in a car crash. Motor vehicle collisions are a leading cause of back injuries in the United States, and some people will never walk again after a wreck. Spinal cord injuries may be low or...
California is known for having busy interstates and highways, so anyone who’s here should know how to drive in congested conditions. Just because traffic is bumper to bumper doesn’t mean that you can lose track of safety. There are several things that drivers need to...
Drivers in California have to carry liability insurance on their vehicles. After all, if someone loses control for even a few moments, they could cause a crash that demolishes someone else's vehicle or kills somebody. State law requires that all drivers carry a...
It is devastating to be involved in a serious car crash that causes injuries. You might have a life-changing injury such as a traumatic amputation, brain injury or paralysis. You may not be able to do the things you could in the past and may struggle to return to...
