Slip and Fall Injuries Explained
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Slip and fall injuries can be serious and debilitating, often requiring extensive medical treatment and care.
Most common types of slip and fall injuries
The most common types of slip and fall injuries include: (1) orthopedic injuries and surgeries; (2) traumatic brain injuries; (3) spinal cord injuries; (4) broken or fractured bones; (5) injuries to the eyes, nose, teeth and jaw; (6) torn MCL and ACL in the knee; (7) sprains; (8) mental trauma; (9) depression; and (10) chronic pain.
Death and paralysis can also result from these types of accidents. In fact, falls are now the leading cause of death among people aged 65 and older in the United States.
Common slip and fall injuries in slip and fall accidents also include:
- TBI
- Concussion
- Skull fracture
- Hematoma
- Hemorrhage
- Brain bleed
- Spinal cord injury to the neck (cervical), middle back (thoracic), lower back (lumbar), lower spine (sacral) and tailbone (coccygeal or coccyx)
- Fractured vertebrae
- Herniated disk
- Pinched spinal cord nerve
- Whiplash
- Torn or strained neck muscles
- Torn or strained neck ligaments
- Torn or strained neck tendons
- Broken teeth
- Jaw fractures
- Nose fractures
- Bleeding in the eye
- Corneal abrasion
- Orbital or eye socket fracture
- Detached retina
- Hip fracture
- Wrist fracture
- Ankle fracture
- Elbow fracture
- Fractured ribs
- Pelvis fracture
- Broken arms
- Broken legs
- Broken wrists
- Torn MCL (medial collateral ligament/knee injury)
- Torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament/knee injury)
- Dislocated patella (knee injury)
- Shoulder injury
- Shoulder dislocation
- Broken collarbone
- Torn shoulder nerves
- Sprained ankle
- Sprained wrist
- Nerve damage
- Mental trauma
- Depression
- Cuts and bruises
- Chronic pain
How to treat an injury
Medical care and treatment for a slip and fall injury will often include: (1) Neuropsychological and neurological care for concussion and traumatic brain injury, neurosurgical intervention for brain bleeds, hemorrhage and skull fractures; (2) cognitive-behavioral rehabilitation; (3) orthopedic or neurosurgical spinal surgery; (4) knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, ankle and foot fractures and surgery; (5) rehabilitation and physical therapy; and (6) pain intervention modalities, including medication.
Here are many of the surgeries that our own clients have been forced to undergo from injuries suffered from these types of accidents:
- Spinal fusion surgery
- Spinal discectomy surgery
- Spinal laminectomy/decompression surgery
- Vertebroplasty
- Artificial disc implant
- Knee arthroscopy surgery
How much is a slip and fall injury worth?
Additional Injuries
- Spinal fusion surgery
- Spinal discectomy surgery
- Spinal laminectomy/decompression surgery
- Artificial disc implant
- Knee arthroscopy surgery
- Knee reconstruction surgery
- Brain Knee replacement surgery
- Hip arthroscopy surgery
- Total hip replacement surgery
- Partial hip replacement surgery
- Revision hip replacement surgery
- Shoulder joint replacement surgery
- Total elbow replacement surgery
- Ankle ligament reconstruction surgery
- Ankle instability surgery
- Foot reconstruction surgery
- Wrist joint replacement
- Surgical insertion of internal screws or wires to fix fractured bones in place
Our attorneys have recovered slip and fall injury settlements worth millions of dollars, but every case must be examined on a case by case basis as liability (fault) may be factually different and the nature and severity of the injuries suffered will vary.
The key point here is that while the settlement value of your case will depend on the individual facts of your case, such as your injuries and how they have affected your life, your medical needs, and how clear liability will be and the extent of the property owner’s liability insurance.
One thing remains true across all of these types of personal injury cases: who your attorney is matters. Insurance companies will pay significantly more to people who are represented by experienced attorneys with an established track record of settlements and trial verdicts than they will to an attorney, even an attorney who holds himself out as a personal injury attorney, who does not have the same experience with premises liability injury cases. Our slip and fall cases and settlements amounts page will show you winning outcomes our lawyers have been able to achieve for accident victims we help.
Meet our slip and fall attorney
Attorney Tim Holland is arguably Michigan’s most experienced and successful slip and fall lawyer. He has handled more than 200 slip and fall cases throughout Michigan. Tim also works with personal injury attorneys across the nation on catastrophic slip and fall cases and he has helped people injured in slip and falls in multiple states throughout the country. Tim also is one of the nation’s most respected teachers of premises liability law, and he regularly teaches lawyers on how to win slip and fall cases at legal seminars and legal webinars.
Need Help? Call our attorneys now
It’s not uncommon to have questions about your slip and fall injuries and whether you have a case against the premises owner or commercial building or store that owned and managed the property where you suffered your accident.
Let our slip and fall law firm get you the help and the answers you need in order to recover the full compensation and money damages you may be legally entitled to.
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