Keating, O’Gara, Nedved & Peter

Your Nebraska Lawyers

Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

What is lost when a child suffers a brain injury during birth? When a young construction worker suffers a spinal cord injury, and faces life in a wheelchair? As personal injury lawyers we have to answer those questions and more on a regular basis as we work to recover fair compensation for our clients.

Unfortunately, insurance companies are too often focused on profits, not people, and routinely undervalue claims for catastrophic, life-changing injuries. If a member of your family has suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI), a spinal cord injury, or another serious injury, it is extremely important that you have the claim evaluated by an attorney with appropriate experience and resources before signing a settlement offer or making a statement to an insurance company representative.

At our Nebraska firm, Keating, O’Gara, Nedved & Peter, P.C., L.L.O., our lawyers have that experience and those resources, and have successfully recovered substantial settlements and awards on behalf of victims of serious injuries. If you would like to have one of our attorneys evaluate your personal injury claim, please contact our Lincoln offices and arrange a free consultation.

Significant Cases involving serious injury: Our lawyers are prepared to handle claims involving serious injuries caused by the following:

• Car wrecks, including eighteen-wheeler accidents, railroad crossing accidents, and bus accidents
• Defective products, including those involving dangerous farm or industrial machinery, dangerous prescription drugs, defective auto equipment, and tools
• Workplace injuries, including construction falls, agricultural injuries, injuries caused by inhalation of anhydrous ammonia, burn injuries caused in explosions, forklift accidents, and employment-related car accidents
• Medical malpractice, including obstetric malpractice that results in birth injuries, surgical errors, dental malpractice, Lasik surgery, failure to diagnose treatable cancer or heart disease, exposure to infectious blood borne disease, and failure to supervise a mentally ill patient
• Inadequate building security or professional misconduct leading to violent or sexual assault
• Injuries resulting in permanent, chronic pain or pain syndrome (fibromyalgia or fibromyositis)

Brain damage, paraplegia, quadriplegia, other degrees of paralysis, amputation, scarring, or other permanently disabling injuries have far-reaching impacts. When calculating the cost of a catastrophic injury, our attorney will call on medical experts, life-care experts, occupational therapists, accountants, and economists to identify the current and future losses our client has been exposed to.

There may be compensation for lost employability, pain and suffering, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and for other current and future expenses. For a discussion of claims resulting from fatal accidents see Wrongful Death.

If you would like to speak with a member of the firm, or have any question for us, please contact our office to make arrangements. (Consultations regarding personal injury claims are complimentary.) Our Lincoln, Nebraska, attorneys serve clients from Grand Island, Kearney, Hastings, North Platte, Beatrice, Valentine, and other communities throughout the state.