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Spinal cord injury can result in
paraplegic or quadriplegic paralysis. A paraplegic has
paralysis in the lower extremities, while a quadriplegic
suffers paralysis from the upper body down. The level
where the injury occurs in the spine determines the
extent of the paralysis. We have the resources to have
you, or your loved one, evaluated by doctors who specialize
in treating paralysis injury.
Here are two recent cases that underscore
our competence in the area of spinal cord injury; Quinnones
v. Federal Armored Express and Winkler v. Garrett.
In the first spinal cord injury lawsuit,
Quinnones v. Federal Armored Express, our client
was driving on the freeway going to work when an armored
vehicle lost control and ended up on top of our client's
vehicle. Our client's spinal cord injury resulted in
quadriplegic paralysis. The driver of the armored car
did not possess a commercial truck driver's license,
nor did he receive proper truck driver training. The
armored car company had been involved in over 500 accidents
the previous year. Despite its track record, it allowed
an unlicensed, untrained and unsupervised driver to
drive its armored vehicle during rain and darkness.
Ed Steinbrecher proved the driver was traveling too
fast for wet conditions and lost control of the vehicle,
causing severe paralysis to our client. This paralysis
case settled before the jury trial for $12,000,000,
one of the largest personal injury settlements in the
state of California.
In the second spinal cord injury case,
Winkler v. Garrett, our client was a passenger
in a Porsche driven by Leif Garrett which left the freeway
and rolled over. The driver passed out while driving
the Porsche after several days of heavy partying. The
plaintiff had also been partying and was asleep at the
time of the accident. Our client suffered paraplegic
paralysis. Following a jury trial the jury determined
liability in favor of our client and awarded $4,300,000.
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