39 Year - Old carpenter injured on job site - New York attorney - Parker waichman llp

I want to talk to you about a case I handled involving a 39 year-old carpenter who hurt his back when he fell from a scaffold while working at a job site. Unfortunately, injuries to a person's spine, to their back and their neck - especially for people who are working in jobs, hard manual labor jobs such as construction- can be the end of their career. Now all of us at different times in our lives may experience some type of back and neck pain. That's a function of just getting older, unfortunately. But it's a little bit different when you have a traumatic type injury that's as a result of a fall. You may have been involved in a similar type of situation where you've been working at a construction site, been involved in some other type of accident where you sustained an injury to your back and your neck. I want to talk to you today about what you should do those types of circumstances and what your firm can do for you. Hi. I'm Raymond Silverman, one of the principal trial attorneys here at the law firm of Parker Waichman. That story that I began telling you about that case, took a very typical course of cases such as that. The defendants in that case tried to make the argument that my client's injuries are what is called "degenerative in nature." The concept of degeneration as it relates to various body parts - and in particular the spine - are not unusual at all. As each of us gets older, we cross a certain age, and our spines start to degenerate. The disks which make up our back and our neck begin to lose some of the hydration and sometimes can be painful, but often not painful - just something that shows up on a diagnostic test such as an MRI that one might take. As often the case for a person of the age of 39 years-old, he's going to have such degeneration in his spine. And in the case as such I was telling you about, the defendants tried to argue that my client's injuries were not related to his fall but related to this degeneration. We were able to show that argument was completely fallacious, that there were no prior problems that my client had before the accident and it was clear that the only event that could have caused his current problems were from the fall that he sustained. This was important, because as I mentioned to you before, my client who worked a manual job couldn't go back to work anymore doing that because of the problems he had with his lower back. His future and his family's future were potentially compromised. We were able to resolve that case for him, protect him and his family's interests for the rest of their lives. You may have been involved in an accident where you sustained an injury to your neck and your back. As a result, you may have questions about what to do or what type of doctors to see or how you should handle that type of injury. We have answers to those types of questions. I handle cases involving injuries to a person's spine every single day. Call me; I can help answer your questions. My name again is Raymond Silverman and I thank you very much for your time listening today.