Maison Law represents victims seriously hurt in Salinas car accidents. Those injuries can include devastating bone fractures in arms and legs after a major traffic collision. Our Car Accident Lawyers hold careless drivers and their car insurance companies completely liable for the damage and broken bones they cause. Contact Maison Law to talk with a real lawyer about your options in a free, no-obligation consultation. You’ll learn what your broken bone should be worth and how to secure the compensation you need to recover.
Do I Need a Lawyer for My Car Accident Claim?
If your traffic accident results in a serious injury, such as a broken collarbone or a broken arm, it’s a good idea to bring your case to Maison Law to go over your best options in a free consultation. If we can’t help you earn more for your injury than you could on your own, we’ll tell you that. But often, having a lawyer can protect your injury claim from insurance tactics meant to rob you of compensation.
A skilled Salinas Car Accident Lawyer fully investigates your case and collects all evidence available so that a car insurance company can’t get away with trying to blame you for an accident you didn’t cause. Evidence and medical documents also keep an insurer from trying to downplay injuries and offer you less than you need to pay all of your medical bills. Your lawyer forces an insurance adjuster to accept liability and then fights to make sure you receive the maximum in compensation available.
Broken Bone Hazards in Car Accidents
Car accidents create enough force to break any bone in the human body. An impact can even create the power needed to break the largest bone in the body, the femur (thigh bone).
Drivers on busy Salinas routes like Highway 101 or Harden Parkway can be as careful as possible, but every day careless motorists force others into accidents. Drivers may be speeding through town when they fail to notice a slowdown in traffic flow ahead until it’s too late to avoid a rear-end accident.
Distracted drivers might be checking out a social media post on a cell phone instead of watching a traffic light turn from green to red. They might T-bone another driver’s car in the intersection to put incredible pressure on the bones of every car occupant. Victims most often suffer fractures in arm and leg bones.
Arm Fractures: Victims holding on to steering wheels can suffer hand and wrist bone fractures. Their forearm bones, the radius and ulna, might suffer a hairline fracture or a jagged break. Arms can collide with windows, doors, and car dashes to suffer additional breaks.
Leg Fractures: Car accident victims, especially those in rearender accidents, can have their legs jammed into the floorboards. Victims might come away with broken bones in their feet and ankles. They may have to recover from major breaks in the tibia and fibula that make up the lower leg.
These are other bones are commonly broken in local traffic accidents:
- Kneecaps
- Bones that form the hip
- Pelvic bones
- Vertebrae
- Ribs
- Collarbone
- Breastbone
- Skull and facial bones
Compensation Available for Car Accident Victims with Broken Bones
Victims should receive the best medical care available and have the resources to pay for that care without financial worries. That initial care will be very important for bone fracture victims and could include surgeries, emergency room fees, and physical therapy.
Victims might also need support in the years ahead. Bone breaks can appear to heal, but may be left slightly out of alignment. Victims may require operations later in life and be unable to ask a car insurance company for more in support after they’ve already signed off on a “lowball” settlement offer.
Your car accident lawyer makes sure you don’t accept a settlement check that doesn’t cover everything you’ll need. Your lawyer forms a list of every hardship you’ve suffered and those you are likely to suffer in the future.
- All costs for medical care and physical therapy. That includes any medical equipment you may need to make life easier while healing at home.
- Future medical costs associated with a permanent physical disability or permanent disfigurement.
- Additional funds for child car accident victims who suffer broken bones. Those fractures can cause problems in a child’s development years down the road and in their teen years as their bodies begin to mature. They must secure the support they need now for those potential surgeries needed as they reach adulthood.
- Compensation for the physical pain endured with fractured bones in the moments after a car accident and through a difficult recovery.
- Compensation for the emotional trauma victims suffer after accidents. This can include the anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms experienced.
- Money for the transportation costs of going back and forth from doctor and surgeon visits. Perhaps compensation for out-of-area travel to see specialists.
- Paychecks and benefits victims have forfeited while missing work. The loss of the ability to support your family if you are out of work for months or years.
- Money for vehicle repairs or replacement.
Contact a Salinas Car Accident Attorney
After a serious accident on a Salinas roadway, you should speak with a skilled lawyer to find out what your injury is worth and how to hold a car insurance company fully accountable.
Schedule a free case consultation with Maison Law of Salinas. This evaluation comes with no obligation to you or your family. If you do feel we can help you earn more, you won’t need any money to hire quality legal representation. We don’t get paid unless your case is won, and then our fee comes out of the settlement money you receive.
