A CAR ACCIDENT CAN CAUSE PARALYSIS AND QUADRIPLEGIA WHEN DEFECTIVE AIRBAGS FAIL TO DEPLOY
In Los Angeles we drive our cars everyday and count on our air bags to keep us safe from harm in the event of a serious car accident. Unfortunately, sometimes airbags fail to deploy, which can cause severe damage such as spinal cord injuries and head or brain injuries resulting in paralysis or death. When side torso and head air bags fail to deploy in a serious auto accident, riders may survive, but can be left totally paralyzed as quadriplegics and unable to function. In many of these accidents, had the air bags properly deployed, drivers and passengers might have been injured, but most likely would not have suffered full paralysis or death. We believe that when automobile manufacturers fail to implement correctly functioning airbags in cars, they should be subject to product liability and negligence under the full extent of the law.
Quadriplegics and paraplegics often live a normal life expectancy, but they will always be confined to a bed or mobile electric wheel chair. When people cannot feed, bathe, dress themselves or take care of their own hygiene, it means that they will need to pay for care for the rest of their lives. Their loss of income, personal care and medical expenses can run into the many millions of dollars. This is often a tragedy that could have been avoided had the airbags properly deployed. Accident and product liability attorneys can help clients get compensation for their injuries and help give them the funds they will need for managed care for the rest of their lives.
We at the Law Offices of Greenberg & Rudman LLP fight for our clients and we spend our own money to hire all of the necessary experts to prove a case. We take a case on a contingency basis, which means that if we don’t win or settle the case, we don’t get paid- not for our time and not for the actual costs and expenses of the case. As personal injury attorneys working on contingency, we put up our own time and money on behalf of injured clients because we believe in our clients, we believe in the civil jury system, and we believe justice will prevail.
