by Mark Thompson | Aug 18, 2009 | Spinal injury
Paraplegia In simple terms, paraplegia means below waist level paralysis. In life terms everything is different. I handled a case for a young soldier, who I will call John. He was off for the weekend and got a lift in the back of a friend’s car. The driver had...
by Mark Thompson | Aug 18, 2009 | Spinal injury
Contributory negligence can reduce compensation significantly when the injury is serious I have pointed to the effect of a finding of contributory negligence elsewhere. The effect is felt most in severe injury cases, because the needs of the injured person are so...