The spectrum of spinal injury
Spinal injuries range from whiplash-associated disorders and herniated discs to fractures and spinal cord damage causing paraplegia or quadriplegia. In between lies the territory insurers fight hardest: chronic pain, nerve damage, and radiculopathy that imaging captures imperfectly but that ends careers and hollows out daily life.
We prove these injuries with treating-specialist evidence, functional capacity evaluations, and pain-medicine expertise, and we do not let "degenerative changes" excuses erase what the accident did.
Lifetime losses need lifetime numbers
A serious spinal injury claim must fund decades: attendant care, home modification, mobility equipment and replacement cycles, medication, and lost earning capacity across a whole career. We work with care-cost and actuarial experts so the number in your claim reflects the real future, not the insurer's version of it.
- Pain and suffering (general damages) for the injury itself and its effect on your life
- Lost income and lost earning capacity, past and future
- Medical and rehabilitation costs including physiotherapy, medication, and equipment
- Cost of future care for lasting injuries
- Housekeeping and loss of valuable services you can no longer perform
- Out-of-pocket expenses from mileage to childcare
Alberta Accident Law works on a full contingency basis: you pay nothing unless we win. There are no hourly rates, no retainers, and no bill if your claim does not succeed. Your case review is free, confidential, and carries no obligation, so finding out where you stand costs you nothing.
Spinal injury treatment near Sherwood Park
Injuries in Sherwood Park are treated at the Strathcona Community Hospital, with major trauma transferred to the University of Alberta Hospital or Royal Alexandra in Edmonton.
Under Alberta's Limitations Act you generally have 2 years from the date of the accident to start a claim, and some situations carry much shorter notice deadlines. Evidence also degrades quickly: skid marks fade, camera footage is overwritten, and witnesses forget. Injury lawsuits for Sherwood Park and Strathcona County are filed at the Edmonton Law Courts, in the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta. Smaller claims may proceed in the Alberta Court of Justice in Sherwood Park. The sooner we start, the stronger your position.