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Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injuries
Head and spinal cord injuries often result from automobile accidents, falls, sports accidents, and violent acts. If such injury was suffered on the job, the employer's workers' compensation insurer will cover medical care and expenses. If the injury was worsened by poor medical treatment, the injured party can sue the hospital, and others involved in treatment, such as the physicians and/or HMO. Even if the person injured was partially to blame for the injury, he or she could still recover expenses, under California's comparative fault law.
Fractures
Herniated Disks
Wrongful Death
Wrongful death lawsuits are actions that allow close relatives of a person who died as a result of a wrongful act, to recover for lost financial and emotional support. The wrongful act may be negligent, such as careless driving; reckless; or deliberate, such as murder. Moreover, the prosecution of the accused under a criminal statute does not preclude a private, wrongful death suit.
Burns/Scars
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