If you need a Wiggins MS spinal cord injury lawyer, the crash on US-49 or at the MS-26 intersection in Stone County changed your life in the most permanent way a car wreck can. Spinal cord injuries do not heal the way broken bones heal. The damage to the cord itself — partial or complete, cervical or thoracic or lumbar — produces deficits that persist. Paralysis, partial paralysis, loss of sensation, loss of bladder and bowel function, chronic pain, respiratory complications. The medical costs over a lifetime of care are not measured in thousands. They are measured in millions. The adjuster on the at-fault driver’s claim knows what your case is worth. He is calling you with a number that is a fraction of it because he is counting on you not knowing what it actually costs to live with a spinal cord injury for the next 30 or 40 years.

The TV lawyer running south MS ads right now has never tried a spinal cord injury case in Stone County Circuit Court. He has never been in that Wiggins courthouse on East Cavers Avenue on any case. His secretary opened your file, sent a form letter to the at-fault carrier, and put your case in the queue behind 40 others that are exactly like it to her even though yours is not like anything else on that list. She does not know what a life care plan for a C5 incomplete spinal cord injury costs over 35 years. She is waiting for the adjuster to offer a number. Right now the TV lawyer is in his downtown office suite reviewing media placement metrics while the most important case of your life sits in a queue handled by someone who does not understand what it is. That is your case right now.

The Eggshell Plaintiff Doctrine And Your Stone County Spinal Cord Case

A defendant takes his victim as he finds him. The aggravation of a pre-existing condition caused by the wreck belongs to the at-fault driver. This is the eggshell plaintiff doctrine, and it applies to every Stone County spinal cord injury case arising from a crash on US-49 or in Wiggins. If you had prior spinal stenosis, a prior disc condition, prior degenerative changes in the spine, or any other pre-existing spinal issue that the crash aggravated, the at-fault driver owns that aggravation. The insurance company will send their medical expert to review your imaging and argue the spinal cord injury resulted from your pre-existing degeneration, not from the US-49 crash. That argument fails against a lawyer who retains the right spinal medicine experts to establish the baseline before the crash and the cord injury caused by the crash. Without the right lawyer, that argument succeeds and your recovery is reduced by the exact amount the carrier’s expert manufactured.

A Spinal Cord Case In Stone County Requires A Life Care Plan Built Immediately

The damages in a spinal cord injury case are not what they cost this year. They are what they cost over the rest of the injured person’s life. A complete cervical spinal cord injury in a 35-year-old person in Stone County produces lifetime care costs that can exceed two or three million dollars when fully projected — home modifications, attendant care, adaptive equipment, medical monitoring, respiratory support if needed, pain management, and the full range of secondary complications that spinal cord injuries produce over decades. A life care planner is a credentialed expert who projects those costs with specificity. That projection is the foundation of the damages case in Stone County Circuit Court at 323 East Cavers Avenue in Wiggins. The TV lawyer’s secretary has not retained a life care planner. She has not retained a vocational expert to calculate the lifetime loss of earning capacity. She is waiting for the adjuster to offer a number. Whatever that number is, it does not include a 30-year life care plan. Under Miss. Code Ann. Section 11-7-15, MS pure comparative fault applies. Under Miss. Code Ann. Section 15-1-49, you have three years to file suit. The life care plan needs to start now, not three years from now.

Memorial Hospital At Stone County And The Transfer To A Spine Center

Memorial Hospital at Stone County on Central Avenue East in Wiggins is a Level IV Trauma Center. For a spinal cord injury, Level IV means immediate stabilization and transfer. Every serious spinal cord injury from a US-49 crash in Stone County goes to Gulfport or Hattiesburg for acute care and then to a regional spine rehabilitation center for the months of rehabilitation that follow. That transfer chain — the ambulance from the scene to Memorial Hospital at Stone County, the transfer to Memorial in Gulfport or Forrest General in Hattiesburg, the subsequent acute rehab facility — produces transport costs, treatment costs, and family travel costs over months. All of it belongs in your damages calculation. None of it appears in the adjuster’s early offer. The TV lawyer’s secretary is looking at the first hospital bill. The full chain of care costs is not in her field of view.

The TV lawyer’s fee is 40 percent. On a Stone County spinal cord injury case — the most serious case his secretary will ever mishandle — he settled without a life care plan and without a vocational expert and without pushing back on the carrier’s pre-existing degeneration argument, his 40 percent of that fraction of the lifetime damages plus his itemized costs — medical records fees, processing fees, fee fi fo fum fees, fees for fees, fees on top of fees, fees to calculate the fees, fees for the Lamborghini, fees for the Destin condo, fees for the media placement review while your Stone County spinal cord case sat in a queue, fees for the secretary who does not know what a life care plan is, fees for the paralegal who copied the acute hospital bill and missed the 30-year projections, highway robbery fees, scam fees, administrative fees, fees to make absolutely certain he walks away with more money from your spinal cord case than you take home from the injury that changed your life — can leave the most seriously injured person in Wiggins with less in hand than the lawyer received. The Foster Fair Fee Guarantee is a written contractual promise that you walk away with more money than I receive in fees. Every case. No exceptions.

Damages On A Stone County Spinal Cord Injury Case

A spinal cord injury from a US-49 crash in Stone County produces a damages picture measured over a lifetime. Past medical expenses at Memorial Hospital at Stone County, at the Gulfport or Hattiesburg transfer facility, and at the acute rehabilitation center. Future medical expenses across decades of care. A life care plan projecting every cost from home modifications to attendant care to adaptive equipment to ongoing medical management. Total loss of earning capacity if the injury produces paralysis or severe functional limitations. Physical pain and suffering for the rest of your life. Mental anguish. Loss of enjoyment of life. Loss of all activities the injury permanently prevents. If the at-fault driver’s conduct was egregious, punitive damages are possible in Stone County Circuit Court. The Wiggins car wreck hub covers all Stone County car wreck case types. The statewide framework is at the Mississippi Car Wreck Lawyer page. Background is at the Resources page. If you want a quick cheap settlement and a secretary handling your Stone County spinal cord case, the TV lawyer is perfect for you. Get the book first.

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The adjuster offering you a number on a spinal cord injury case is counting on you not having a life care plan that shows what your injury actually costs over 30 years. That plan has not been built yet. That plan is the case. Get the book before the adjuster closes your file without it.

What If My Spinal Cord Injury In Wiggins Aggravated Prior Spinal Degeneration?

A defendant takes his victim as he finds him. The aggravation of pre-existing spinal degeneration caused by a crash on US-49 or in Stone County belongs to the at-fault driver. This is the eggshell plaintiff doctrine under MS personal injury law. The insurance company will retain a medical expert to argue the cord injury resulted from prior degeneration, not from the crash. That argument requires the right spinal medicine experts to counter with evidence of the baseline before the US-49 impact and the documented cord injury caused by the crash. Get the book before any medical history authorization is signed.

How Long Do I Have To File A Spinal Cord Injury Lawsuit In Stone County?

Miss. Code Ann. Section 15-1-49 gives you three years from the date of your Stone County crash to file suit in Stone County Circuit Court at 323 East Cavers Avenue in Wiggins. A spinal cord injury life care plan takes months to build correctly. Do not accept any settlement before the life care plan is complete and the full lifetime damages picture is documented. Once you sign, the case is closed regardless of what the life care plan would have shown. Get the book before you accept any number.

What Damages Can I Recover For A Spinal Cord Injury From A US-49 Crash In Wiggins?

Damages in a Stone County spinal cord injury case include past and future medical expenses at Memorial Hospital at Stone County and all transfer and rehabilitation facilities, a full life care plan projection over decades, total or partial loss of earning capacity, attendant care costs, home modification costs, adaptive equipment costs, physical pain and suffering, mental anguish, and loss of enjoyment of life. A serious spinal cord injury from a US-49 crash in Wiggins produces lifetime costs that can exceed millions of dollars when properly projected. The adjuster’s early offer accounts for none of those lifetime costs.

Does A Spinal Cord Injury Case In Wiggins Have To Go To Trial?

Not necessarily. Most Stone County spinal cord injury cases settle before trial. But what produces a fair settlement is the same thing that produces a fair verdict: the full life care plan, the vocational expert’s loss of earning capacity calculation, the spinal medicine expert’s documentation of the injury, and the knowledge that the lawyer handling the case has appeared in Stone County Circuit Court on East Cavers Avenue and will appear again if they do not pay what the case is worth. The TV lawyer’s secretary produces none of those things. The result is a settlement that is a fraction of the lifetime damages. Get the book before you accept any number from the carrier.

Where Does A Spinal Cord Injury Lawsuit From A Wiggins Crash Get Filed?

A spinal cord injury lawsuit from a crash on US-49 or anywhere in Stone County files in Stone County Circuit Court at 323 East Cavers Avenue in Wiggins, MS 39577. Wiggins is the Stone County seat. The circuit court in Wiggins is where your case files and where a jury trial would take place if the carrier does not pay what the case is worth. The TV lawyer has never been in that courthouse. The carrier knows it. Get the book and understand what having a lawyer the carrier respects in Stone County Circuit Court does to the opening number before a single letter is sent.

P.S. The adjuster offering a number on your Stone County spinal cord injury case is counting on you not having the life care plan that shows what your injury costs over the next 30 or 40 years. That plan is the foundation of what your case is worth. It has not been built yet. Get the FREE book right now. Read it before you take the adjuster’s next call. What you learn will change everything about how that call goes.

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