Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer in Hobbs, New Mexico

Why Choose the Kemmy Law Firm?

The Kemmy Law Firm is a family of trial lawyers with 50 years of combined experience helping the catastrophically injured get their lives back on track as best as can be accomplished. We have the resources to face big insurance companies. We will make sure your needs are met because our goal is to set things right as much as possible for you and your family.

We understand what’s at stake in your case when you are catastrophically injured. Every aspect of your life is harmed: mobility, health, income, relationships. Beyond that, you are faced with mounting medical and rehabilitation costs.

We can put our experience and skills to work to help you get you through the challenges you face: aggressive representation, the right medical and accident experts and an advocate in the courtroom so you can get the compensation you deserve.

We don’t accept every case offered to us. Instead, we focus on providing quality, personal service to our clients. We don’t shortchange them because of a swollen caseload.

The Kemmy Law Firm makes you feel like you’re our only client.

Spinal Cord Injury Cases We Handle

We will litigate all types of spinal injury cases caused by all kinds of accidents.

• Traumatic spinal cord injuries
• Herniated discs
• Slipped discs
• Lower back pain
• Bulging discs
• Spinal cord damage

We’ve worked on car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, workplace accidents, oilfield accidents, medical malpractice and cases of serious neglect. All of these have one thing in common. A person like you, in the wrong place at the wrong time, suffering a serious injury because of someone else’s negligence.

Signs of a Spinal Cord Injury

Symptoms of a spinal injury depend on several issues, like the location along the spinal cord (the neurological level) and the severity of the injury (the injury’s completeness). If you have some motor or sensory function below the affected area, it’s considered incomplete, if not, it’s complete.

Paralysis is referred to as tetraplegia or quadriplegia (arms, hands, trunk, legs and pelvic organs are all impacted) and paraplegia (affecting all or part of your chest, legs, and pelvic organs).

Spinal cord injury symptoms show themselves in many ways, including:

• Lost movement
• Loss or altered sensation, such as heat, cold and touch
• Loss of bowel or bladder control
• Exaggerated reflex activities or muscle spasms
• Changes in sexual function, sexual sensitivity and fertility
• Pain or intense stinging feelings due to harm to nerve fibers in your spinal cord
• Difficulty breathing, coughing or clearing your lungs

There currently no effective treatments to recover the permanent, lost function of the spinal cord though some spinal injuries are temporary. Emergency treatment focuses on keeping the accident victim alive and trying to prevent the injury from worsening.

Long term, you may take several medications, have surgeries performed and engage in extensive rehabilitation.

Our Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers Will Identify Who is Responsible

Giving attention to your legal rights as soon as possible after an injury is always advisable. We will gather evidence of your accident, your diagnosis, medical treatment, rehabilitation, and prognosis. We will ask your healthcare providers for medical records. Our team will investigate the facts of your accident, obtain copies of police reports, preserve physical evidence, take pictures of where the accident took place and use an expert reconstructionist to piece together what happened and why.

Through our investigation, The Kemmy Law Firm will determine who may be held legally responsible for your injuries and fight to hold them accountable. We will communicate with that party, their attorney or insurance company. They may deny responsibility, but after we supply the evidence we’ve gathered, we typically successfully negotiate favorable settlements or win at trial.

Spine Injury Wrongful Death Compensation

A wrongful death lawsuit is filed by the next of kin killed by someone whose negligence or intentional act killed their family member.

In fatal spinal cord cases, damages may include,

• Compensation for the stress caused by a long, painful recovery, with sometimes limited results, for an injury that ends up being fatal
• The costs of medical treatment and rehabilitation
• Compensation for the family’s pain and suffering as well as for practical costs such as home modifications and job training
• If the accident’s cause was intentional or the other party showed a reckless disregard for the lives and safety of others, New Mexico punitive damages, meant to punish the responsible party, may be available.

New Mexico Spinal Cord Injury Claims

In most cases, after the person is injured, we will discuss the issues with you, and if we’re retained, we will start an investigation. After we find out what happened, why, and who caused the accident, we will contact the responsible party or parties, who normally direct us to their attorney or insurance company.

The vast majority of spinal injury claims settle, either before a lawsuit is filed or afterward. However,  many insurance companies won’t take a claim seriously unless it is being handled by an aggressive lawyer, who is prepared to go to trial.

At Kemmy Law Firm, we have a deep understanding of New Mexico law, regarding spinal injuries, and work with top medical experts. We also know how juries respond in these cases and what they are looking for. We are fierce negotiators, and if an insurance company refuses to make a fair offer, they know we are not afraid to take your case to court.

Generally, with rare exceptions, the statute of limitations to file a personal injury or wrongful death action under New Mexico law is three years. If that deadline is missed, you will lose your ability to bring legal claims against those who caused the injuries. You should contact the Kemmy Law Firm as soon as possible after the accident. Don’t wait weeks, months or years.

We Take Spinal Injury Cases to Trial and Win

Trial preparation is usually the key to obtaining the best possible outcome after a spinal injury. The better prepared you are to take the case to trial, the more likely the company will pay what they owe.  Trial readiness is strong leverage when negotiating a settlement because not only will facts win a case, the insurance company witnesses first-hand how prepared and serious we are about our job.

Insurance companies often offer a lower settlement early in the process when not all the facts are known. Thanks to discovery, a phase of the litigation process, both parties normally find all the necessary facts. During this time both sides ask each other questions, exchange documents and information, and interview parties and witnesses under other in a deposition.

We will make sure you will receive a fair and equitable amount to help you in the long run. Over the years, with our help, our clients have developed an impressive record of verdicts and settlements. If insurance companies won’t cooperate – we have what it takes to bring any case to trial and win.