What Makes Someone Legally Liable for a Paralyzing Injury?
The fact that an accident resulted in someone suffering a life-altering injury does not automatically make everyone else involved in the incident legally liable for that injury. Just like with any other personal injury claim, civil fault for paralyzing injuries to the spinal cord, brain, or any other part of the body lies with whoever was primarily at fault for causing that injury to happen through their own irresponsible actions.
Depending on the circumstances, this could look like a driver causing a high-speed traffic collision by violating a traffic law, a landowner not fixing or informing a lawful property visitor about a slipping or tripping hazard, or a host of other acts that are serious enough to qualify as a breach of a legal duty of care. As our Irvine paralysis injury attorney can explain, someone may hold strict liability for a paralyzing injury in some situations—for example, if that injury stemmed mainly from a serious defect in a consumer product the product’s manufacturer should have addressed beforehand.
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