Every year, approximately 11,000 people sustain new spinal cord injuries — that’s thirty new injuries every day, according to the National Spinal Cord Injury Association.

Spinal Cord Injury & Nerve Damage

Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer Wheaton

Legal Help for People With Spinal Cord Injuries

A spinal cord injury (SCI) can be caused by trauma or by medical malpractice. At Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chartered, in Wheaton, Illinois, our attorneys seek financial compensation for clients no matter what type of negligence caused their injuries.

Spinal cord injury requires specialized medical attention and rehabilitative care. The full costs of treatment must be estimated and factored into the financial demand if the spinal cord injury survivor and family are to have any kind of financial security following the injury.

Traumatic Injuries

We are experienced attorneys who have successfully represented people with paraplegia, quadriplegia and other forms of paralysis and nerve damage caused by car accidents, sports injuries, construction accidents, falls and other events involving negligence.

Nerve Damage and Spinal Cord Injury Caused by Medical Negligence

Because of our extensive experience in medical malpractice claims, we are well-positioned to represent people who have experienced nerve damage or injuries to the spine and spinal cord caused by:

Surgical errors resulting in cuts to the facial nerves and partial paralysis
Spine surgery
Misdiagnosed scoliosis
Monarch instrumentation
Errors in placing spinal hardware (screws)
Errors in spinal fusion surgery
Removing the wrong intervertebral disc
Failure to diagnose and treat kyphosis (dowager's hump)
Errors in laminectomy procedures
Errors in spondylolisthesis surgery
Micro dysectomy errors
Birth injuries

Our lawyers work with medical experts, vocational economists and certified life care planners to establish the loss of the injured person's functional capacity and the lifetime costs of injury.

Building a Case for Full Recovery

In cases involving spinal cord injury, we analyze the facts of the case and develop a strategy for obtaining the full amount of financial compensation for the damages, from future medical care and vocational training to the costs of a handicapped van, wheelchairs, and home remodeling to make it handicapped accessible.

If you or a family member suffered a spinal cord injury because of someone else's negligence, please contact our law firm to discuss your case. The initial consultation is free and you will pay no legal fees unless we obtain money damages in your case.

To learn more about our practice representing spinal cord injury and nerve damage victims, please review the following case history:

$7.3 million: Facial paralysis caused by medical negligence

Anderson v. Thompson, MD Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.5 Million Settlement.

Doe v. SuperFlow Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $5.25 Million Settlement

Cann v. Life Products, Inc., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $10 Million Jury Verdict

Bechtol v. Campbell, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $7.3 Million Jury Verdict

Liporini v. Westlake Hospital, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $6.1 Million Award

Kilgore v. Heggen, Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois $5.7 Million Award

LoCoco v. Garbowski, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.6 Million Jury Verdict

Knauerhaze v. Allen, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.485 Million Jury Verdict

Krywokulski v. Wilbur, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.2 Million Award

Garcia v. Horwitz, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.775 Million Award

Compton v. Ubilluz, M.D. and Nour, M.D., Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $1.73 Million Jury Verdict

Enyart v. Rahn, MD, Circuit Court of DuPage Country, Illinois $1.550 Million Settlement

Janetis v. Christensen, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.1 Million Award

Licastro v. Rowley, M.D., Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $710,000 Award

Murray v. R. A. Bright Construction Company, Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois $1.9 Million Award

Out of State Automobile Accident - Death, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.1 Million Award

Bus/Automobile Collision - Fracture & Hip Dislocation, Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $800,000 Award

Automobile/Van Collision - Herniated Disc, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $480,000 Award

Car/Truck Collision - Fractures, Circuit Court of Kane County, Illinois $420,000 Award

Truck/Automobile Collision - Spleen Injury, Circuit Court of Dupage County, Illinois $245,000 Award

Callahan v. Bernz-O-Matic, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.7425 Million Award

Rader v. City of Chicago, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.9 Million Award

Personal Injury : Boat : Leg Injury, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.5 Million Award

Wrongful Adoption, Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $780,000 Settlement

Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chartered
2150 Manchester Road, Suite 200
Wheaton, IL 60187
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Phone: 630-462-1980
Facsimile: 630-462-1984

From our law offices in Wheaton, Illinois, the personal injury, medical malpractice and business litigation attorneys at Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chartered, represent clients throughout Chicagoland and west Chicago. Many clients come to us from Naperville, Bolingbrook, Plano, Yorkville, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, Romeoville, Rockford, Aurora, Batavia, Evanston, Winnetka, Waukegan, Lake Forest, Barrington Hills, DeKalb, Freeport, Elgin, Springfield, Elmhurst, DuPage County, Cook County, Kane County, Will County, Kendall County, IL.