Certain types of injuries can be very expensive after a car crash. People recognize that more severe injuries, including brain injury or spinal cord injuries, may generate major medical bills. They may have a harder time estimating the secondary financial consequences...
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Why severe collisions sometimes lead to medical amputations
Car crashes can cause a variety of different injuries. The speed and type of vehicles involved can play a major role in the severity of occupants' injuries. The force of motor vehicle collisions is more than enough to break bones in the human body. In fact, car...
The “sniff” test: A surprising tool for coma prognosis
After a wreck or another accident leaves someone in a coma with a severe head injury, the most important question their loved ones usually have at first is, “Will they wake up?” When it comes to assessing the prognosis of coma victims, however, medical professionals...
1 of the worst crash injuries is difficult to self-diagnose
If a car crash is minor, it may only cause property damage. However, many crashes cause severe injuries. Someone who followed every traffic law could end up severely hurt by someone who simply does not follow the rules. When a significant crash occurs, people tend to...
What damages can you seek after a car accident?
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...
1 common brain injury symptom people tend to overlook
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...
2 times broken bones from a crash can devastate someone’s career
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 don’t always heal for this key reason
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...
3 kinds of traumatic spine injuries after a car accident
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...
Why California drivers go to court over property damage losses
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...
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