Neck injuries often lead to significant medical expenses. Your recovery can take weeks or much longer depending on the severity of your injury. This often means time away from work and the inability to perform important household tasks and responsibilities.
Georgia law allows injured accident victims to pursue compensation when another party’s negligence caused their injury. Our neck injury lawyers in Alpharetta can work to hold another person accountable and pursue financial compensation for your injuries.
Make the Right Call. Van Sant Law has helped our clients recover hundreds of millions of dollars in jury awards and settlements. Learn more about how our personal injury lawyers in Alpharetta can help with your neck injury case when you call for your free consultation.
Common Causes of Neck Injuries
One of our most important jobs is investigating the incident that led to your injury to find out how it happened and who was responsible. Our neck injury attorneys in Alpharetta help clients after a wide range of neck injuries and accidents, including:
- Car crashes: Rear-end collisions may cause whiplash and other soft-tissue injuries, while more serious crashes can result in disc injuries or spinal cord damage.
- Truck collisions: The greater size and weight of commercial trucks can produce significant forces during a collision, potentially causing serious neck and spinal injuries.
- Motorcycle crashes: A motorcycle crash can cause the neck to experience sudden impact and movement, especially if a rider is thrown off the motorcycle.
- Pedestrian accidents: A pedestrian hit by a vehicle may suffer neck injuries from the collision itself, a fall, or later contact with the ground or an object.
- Slips and falls: A fall can cause the head and neck to move suddenly or strike a hard surface, potentially resulting in strains, fractures, or disc injuries.
Establishing liability in a personal injury claim requires evidence that another party failed to exercise reasonable care. Evidence such as police reports, photographs, medical records, witness statements, and expert testimony can substantiate your claim.
Compensation for a Neck Injury in Alpharetta
Our team will assess your damages to fully understand the extent of your losses. Then, we will work to pursue maximum compensation from all possible sources.
While every injury case is different, we can often seek both economic and non-economic damages, including:
- Medical expenses: You may seek compensation for reasonable medical expenses related to your neck injury, including treatment you have already received and qualifying future medical costs.
- Lost wages: If your injury prevents you from working or causes you to miss work for medical appointments and treatment, lost income may be included as part of your damages.
- Reduced earning capacity: A serious neck injury may affect your ability to perform your job or earn the same income in the future.
- Physical pain and suffering: Depending on the circumstances, damages may include compensation for physical pain and suffering caused by the injury.
The severity and duration of the injury, treatment required, and other case-specific factors can all affect the potential value of your claim. Serious cases such as cervical fractures and spinal cord injuries can often result in high-dollar settlements.
What to Do After a Neck Injury
If you have been in an accident and believe you have a neck injury, get medical care as soon as possible. Most importantly, this gets you on the right track to recover and can identify issues you may not be aware of. It also establishes a record of your injuries.
Then, reach out to our Alpharetta neck injury lawyers. Georgia has a two-year statute of limitations for actions involving personal injuries. Miss this time frame, and you lose your right to pursue legal action.
There can be exceptions, and your deadline may vary depending on the specific circumstances of your incident. Our team can help you understand your rights and keep your case on track.
Georgia Comparative Fault Rules
Under Georgia law, damages are decreased in proportion to a plaintiff’s fault if they are partly responsible for an injury. If the plaintiff is responsible for 50 percent or more of an accident, they are barred from recovering damages.
That means you may sue even if you are partially at fault. However, it also means the insurer may claim you were responsible in order to reduce their liability. Our team will work to put fault where it belongs and push back against unfair claims.
Talk to Our Neck Injury Attorneys in Alpharetta
A neck injury can affect your ability to work for weeks or months after the incident. Ongoing pain makes life difficult, and even routine daily responsibilities can feel unmanageable during recovery. Medical appointments and mounting financial strain frequently follow.
You don’t have to deal with these hardships alone. Our neck injury attorneys in Alpharetta will evaluate your medical treatment and work to identify the parties responsible for your injury. We will fight for the compensation you deserve.
Our team at Van Sant Law has decades of combined legal experience. We can explain your options, along with the steps involved in pursuing compensation under Georgia law.
Call today to schedule a free consultation and tell us about your neck injury.
