Paralysis claims typically come down to two things: what caused the injury and what the injury will cost over time. For residents, that often means connecting a specific incident—like a collision involving a commercial vehicle, a hard fall, or an on-the-job incident—to the medical record showing spinal cord damage.
In practice, the most important early work is preserving evidence that can disappear quickly:
- Dashcam and traffic footage from nearby vehicles and intersections
- Witness accounts while memories are still fresh
- Worksite logs (if the injury happened at a job)
- Medical timelines that show when symptoms appeared and how they progressed
A lawyer’s job is to turn that evidence into an organized theory of liability that an insurer can’t easily dismiss.


