Neck/Back Injury

There are so many ways to hurt your neck or your back. Everything from poor posture to improper lifting techniques can cause a painful neck and back injury. But when you damage your spine or injure your head because of another person’s negligence, you need to call a top New Jersey neck injury lawyer who knows the law to protect your rights and claim any compensation you deserve. Call the New Jersey neck injury attorneys at RAM Law for knowledgeable representation. Let them do the talking while you focus on healing.

How Common Are Neck and Back Injuries?

The most common injuries that accident victims and automobile passengers get into happen in the neck and back. Neck injuries, especially whiplash, account for the majority of injuries in motor vehicle accidents. In a rear-end accident, for example, the quick, but intense jerking movement of your head can easily lead to a whiplash injury.

Neck injuries are also common following slip and fall accidents. These neck and back injuries range from mild to catastrophic, and in some cases can cause permanent disability. In severe cases, these injuries can lead to death. The most common types of neck and back injuries from all types of accidents include:

• Strains and sprains
• Herniated discs
• Spinal fractures
• Spinal cord injury
• Disc impingement
• Bulging discs

If you’ve injured your back or neck in an accident in New Jersey, you need an experienced personal injury attorney from RAM Law. Find one of the best New Jersey neck injury attorneys to make sure to get you the best compensation possible. In addition to back and neck injuries, they also represent people who were injured due to other people’s negligence and sustained a wide range of injuries, including:

• Shoulder injuries
• Traumatic brain injury
• Burn injury
• Electrocutions

What Kinds of Accidents Lead to Injuries in the Neck and Back?

Neck and back injuries can happen for many reasons, but research shows it’s commonly caused by a car accident or truck accident due to the sudden and intense movements of the vehicles. If, for example, you get hit by an 18-wheeler truck, it doubles the impact as well as the danger of sustaining debilitating neck or back injuries. Other accidents that cause of neck and back injuries that your New Jersey neck injury lawyer sees on a regular basis include:

• Extreme and high-risk sports. Sports with an aggressive approach to their game might result in neck fractures and back problems. Colliding with another athlete or sporting equipment is one example of trauma. Injuries also can occur in non-contact sports like gymnastics, and contact sports like football, rugby and wrestling.
• Traffic accidents. While accidents involving trucks and cars are prevalent on New Jersey roads, you can also sustain serious back and neck injuries if you get into an accident while on a motorcycle or scooter. Drivers of rideshares, like Uber and Lyft cause increasingly more accidents as they become more ubiquitous on the road.
• Getting into violence. Getting into fights that can cause injury and trauma can also lead to neck and back injuries, especially if you’re thrown or struck forcefully. Sexual assaults cause neck and back injuries in addition to the other traumas involved in that type of violence.
• Falling objects and collapsing structures. These can lead to severe neck and back problems and may be grounds for a premises liability claim.
• Construction sites. Accidents on cranes and scaffolding are common sources of neck and back injuries.

Just about any kind of accident can lead to neck and back problems initially or later in life, which is why you need an experienced New Jersey neck injury attorneys as soon as possible if you think you may have tweaked your back, sprained or twisted your neck or undergone more severe injuries, especially if it’s due to another person’s negligence.

Why Do I Need a Back Injury Attorney if I’m Not Hurt?

At times, right after the injury, the symptoms don’t present themselves. Initially, you may think it’s just a sprain, but injuries to the neck and back can become extremely painful and worsen over time. You can have torn ligaments, pulled muscles and can even have several fractures and not even realize it at the time. After an accident, note any symptoms at the time, including:

• Pain in neck and back
• Stiffness
• Muscle spasms
• Numbness
• Weakness
• Headaches
• Rapid or slow heartbeat

If you don’t deal with these symptoms immediately, they can lead to serious complications, such as deformity, a changed mental state and trouble breathing. Treatment for back and neck injuries mostly focuses on pain reduction and healing. Physiotherapy is recommended for most problems to try and improve your ability to do everyday tasks.

Pain management alternatives include non-invasive operations and epidural injections. In severe cases, surgeries including cervical fusion may be advised. Treatment gets expensive, which is why you need to rely on your neck and back injury attorney to investigate the accident and your injuries to see if you’re eligible for getting those bills paid by the at-fault person’s insurance company, your employer or other negligent parties.

What Should I Do after a Neck or Back Injury?

Ensure you’re physically fit enough to proceed before doing anything else after you’re in an accident that may have damaged your neck or back. After any event of this sort, prioritize consulting your physician for an examination. Then, make sure you follow a specific step-by-step guide that may include:

• Taking pictures of anything that you think might have caused the accident, as well as the location and surrounding environment, noting the time and the situation around you
• Reporting the accident to responsible authorities like law enforcement, the property owners or your boss
• Keeping records of all the medical bills, pharmacy bills, diagnostic tests and appointments you underwent because of the accident
• Contacting a personal injury lawyer so they can help you understand what you can expect and guide you through the process of filing a lawsuit or negotiating a settlement
• Not discussing your case details with anyone and refraining from posting anything on social media about the accident

Legal formalities must be carried out over time, and nothing should be left out. Even if your damage is severe, various factors can reduce your compensation and risk your legal rights. For example, avoid:

• Delaying seeking medical attention, since the other party can use that delay to claim the injury wasn’t that severe
• Not keeping complete documents related to the accident, such as your medical bills, diagnostic tests and other expenses
• Making sure your evidence is sufficient to prove you weren’t at fault, meaning you don’t have witness statements, photographs or medical records
• Making statements that may be interpreted as admitting fault
• Acknowledging that you have any pre-existing neck or back conditions
• Not letting the statute of limitations expire

What Are My Legal Options for Neck and Back Injuries?

Your priority if you’re in an accident is to get medical care. In New Jersey, you have numerous legal options that your attorney can help you explore, such as:

• If the incident happened at your workplace, then you may be eligible for worker’s compensation benefits to cover medical costs, lost wages and future treatment costs.
• If your injury was due to someone else’s negligence, such as a poorly trained lifeguard at a public pool where you dove in and hit your head, then a personal injury lawsuit may help you get payment for your losses.
• If your neck or back injury prevents you from working for an extended period, then you may be eligible for Social Security disability benefits (SSDI).

How much you’re compensated is determined by evaluating several factors like what kind of insurance is available, how severe your injury is, and how it has limited you. Compensation might include reimbursement for things such as:

• Loss of income
• Medical bills
• Pain and suffering
• Disability or impairment
• Punitive damages

Your neck injury lawyer is also aware of the specific time period under which you can file for your claim. Each state has its laws around that and in New Jersey, the statute of limitations for filing a personal injury claim such as for a neck and back injury is two years from the date of the accident. This can sometimes be extended in situations involving government organizations or other extenuating circumstances.

Why Do I Need a RAM Law Attorney Working with Me?

Your personal injury lawyer helps you get economic and non-economic compensation and negotiate with the insurance companies on your behalf if your injury or damage was due to someone else’s recklessness. If you were at work, for example, your attorney can help you seek worker’s compensation as well. Your RAM Law attorney makes sure everything in your case is confidential. Your lawyer benefits you in other ways too, including:

• Following all the standard procedures, timelines and relevant laws surrounding your claim to ensure you don’t lose anything due to technicalities
• Looking deeply into your case, catching all the details you may have missed, such as collecting evidence, getting witness statements and taking videos of the scenery around the accident
• Communicating and negotiating on your behalf with the insurance companies, ensuring your legal rights are safe, keeping your best interest in mind and reducing your stress so you can fully heal
• Gathering evidence that was missed and consulting medical specialists, accident reconstructionist professionals and forensic specialists
• Taking your case to trial if a satisfactory settlement isn’t reached, ensuring your argument is heard effectively and all the evidence is presented properly
• Evaluating whether comparative negligence might interfere with your claim if any part of the accident was your fault

Deciding who was at fault involves looking at multiple elements all at once. Comparative negligence is always considered. If both parties are responsible for the damage, the fault is divided into percentages to allocate the fault correctly. Other elements that play a role in the outcome of a personal injury case include:

• If drivers were involved in reckless behavior like speeding, not following the traffic rules or being under the influence of drugs, they can be deemed negligent.
• Breach of duty. If the other party didn’t do their duty properly. For example, if the owner of a nightclub with a rowdy crowd and a history of crime doesn’t provide sufficient security, he could be liable in a negligent security case.
• Defective product claim.  For example, if medical documents reveal that a direct blow to your back from a broken amusement park ride produced a herniated disc or that you got spinal fractures because of a faulty seatbelt, the manufacturer could be liable to cover your compensation.

Is it Possible to Prevent Incidents that Cause Neck or Back Injuries?

You can’t completely prevent all the incidents that can cause neck or back injuries. But there are some precautionary measures that you can take to reduce your risk, including:

• Looking at your surroundings at all times and trying to remove or at least minimize risks like walking on wet floors or in low lighting, driving while texting or ignoring safety precautions and hazard warnings
• Strengthening your muscles by exercising regularly to improve flexibility and balance, so that if you do slip, for example, you can catch yourself before you fall
• Educating your staff to wear proper footwear so slips and falls at the workplace are reduced
• Doing regular inspections and maintenance on machinery you work with, on your vehicles and in your home

When You Have a Debilitating Neck or Back Injury, Our Injury Lawyers at Rebenack, Aronow & Mascolo, L.L.P. Will Help

An injury to your neck or back can be life-changing and saddle you with mounting medical expenses, loss of income or mobility, pain and suffering. Our seasoned Personal Injury lawyers at Rebenack, Aronow & Mascolo, L.L.P. can help. Call 732-247-3600 or contact us online to schedule a free consultation. We are located in New Brunswick, Somerville, and Freehold, New Jersey, and we serve clients in Middlesex County, Monmouth County, and Somerset County.

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