Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Compensation Lawyers

My interest in brain and spinal cord injury comes from personal experience. I had an older sister once, and she was the victim of such an injury. We didn't speak much on account of the substantial age difference (she was a teenage pregnancy), but every time I visited her in the hospital after the accident, I regretted not spending more time with her back when she could talk. She lay there motionless for weeks before we figured out she could communicate through eye movements. It takes a long time to make a sentence out of morse code blinks, let me tell you.

 

After a while of this, we got the full story out of her. Her job before the accident was at a local council building. It was a very new building, half complete and still under construction. As a smoker, she tried to find the most convenient spots to step outside for a few minutes. Being a curious person, one day she decided to wander upstairs to see if she could access the roof. It turned out there was no roof yet, just some plastic sheets the builders had put up. In her search, she unwittingly ventured across a part of the floor that was even further behind schedule than the rest of the building. It

 immediately gave way beneath her feet, and she crashed ungraciously through the weak floorboards down to the floor below. It was her personal work desk that broke her fall, coincidentally, but unfortunately it did so in a way that irreversibly damaged her spinal cord, and to some extent, her brain.

 

As she explained this to us, slowly, it became clear there wasn't any indication given that no one should be going upstairs in the building. A simple sign would have sufficed in her case. Therefore we decided to take legal action against her employer, and after many years, received a settlement sufficient to cover the costs associated with lifelong quadriplegia. She did die in an unconnected car accident several years later (as a passenger, obviously), but we still feel we got justice for the negligence that resulted in her condition.