San Jose Paralysis Injury Lawyer
Money Can't Undo Paralysis. It Can Make Life Easier to Live.
If you or someone you love was paralyzed because someone else wasn’t careful, our San Jose attorneys pursue compensation for your care, your lost income, and the changes your home and life now need.
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It Didn't Have to Happen. Someone Should Answer for It.
Paralysis is life-changing no matter the cause. It is especially hard to accept when you know it would never have happened if another driver, a business, or a manufacturer had used reasonable care.
Paralysis usually follows an injury to the spinal cord or brain: from a car crash, a fall, a pedestrian accident, or a sports injury. Compensation can’t restore the function you lost. It can pay for rehabilitation, replace lost income, and make the practical side of life with paralysis more manageable for you and your family.
You may have a paralysis injury claim if:
You or a family member were fully or partly paralyzed after a crash, fall, or other accident
Someone else's failure to use reasonable care played a part
More than one party may share the blame, such as a driver, a manufacturer, or a public agency
The injury happened within roughly the last two years
Talk to us before you decide what your claim is worth. The consultation is free, and you pay nothing unless we win.
First Steps After a Paralyzing Injury
Keep your care continuous.
Acute treatment, rehabilitation, and follow-up specialists all belong in one unbroken record. That record is how your claim proves what paralysis has cost you.
Don't let the vehicle or equipment disappear.
A failed airbag or other defect can make a manufacturer responsible alongside the driver. Ask family to make sure the car isn’t scrapped before it can be inspected.
Note the conditions at the scene.
Missing or badly placed warning signs, road hazards, and poor maintenance can bring a property owner or local government into the case. Photos taken early are the best evidence.
Find any waiver you signed.
If the injury happened at a gym, a sports facility, or another business, keep a copy of any release. A waiver doesn’t always bar your claim; let us read it.
Track what adapting costs.
Wheelchairs, home modifications, an adapted vehicle, in-home help: save every quote and receipt from the start.
Talk to a lawyer before any insurer.
Adjusters may call while you’re still in the hospital. Don’t give a recorded statement or sign anything until we’ve reviewed your case.
How We Find Everyone Responsible for Your Paralysis
Negligence is a failure to use reasonable care to prevent a foreseeable injury to someone else, and most accidents have negligence at their root. To recover, you must show your injury happened because another party failed to use that care.
It isn’t always obvious who that party is. In a truck crash, the driver may be liable, but if a faulty airbag contributed to the paralysis, the airbag’s manufacturer can share responsibility. If a poorly placed speed caution sign played a part, the local government may be partly responsible too. We look at every angle so no one who contributed escapes the claim, and so your recovery isn’t capped by a single insurance policy.
Then we document the full cost of life with paralysis: medical and rehabilitation expenses, lost wages, the home and vehicle changes you now need, and the human toll. If the insurers won’t pay fairly, we prepare your case for trial.
What a Paralysis Claim Can Pay For
A paralysis claim should reflect how much your daily life has changed, not just what the first hospital stay cost.
Medical care and rehabilitation
Emergency treatment, surgery, hospital stays, rehabilitation, and the ongoing care your doctors expect you to need.
Lost wages and future earnings
Income you’ve already lost, and the earnings you lose if paralysis keeps you from the work you did before.
A home and vehicle that work for you
Money to renovate your home for a wheelchair, buy an adapted vehicle, or pay for services that would otherwise be beyond your means.
Physical pain and an altered quality of life
The pain itself, and the loss of the independence, activities, and plans you had before the injury.
California Paralysis Law: What Can Help or Hurt Your Claim
Negligence is the foundation
You must show that another party failed to use reasonable care and that this failure caused your injury. When several parties contributed, each can be responsible for its share.
Assumption of risk can limit sports and recreation claims
If you were injured doing a risky activity, you may not be able to recover for injuries that are an inherent part of it. A figure skater who falls and breaks their neck likely can’t sue the rink. But if the rink’s poorly maintained roof drops debris on the skater, the rink may be liable: falling objects aren’t an inherent risk of skating.
A signed waiver isn't always the end
Courts can enforce liability releases, but a waiver must meet strict legal requirements, and it only covers a business’s ordinary negligence. It doesn’t protect against gross negligence or intentional acts.
Deadlines are short, especially against the government
You generally have two years from the date of injury to file a lawsuit. If a public agency’s road or signage contributed, a claim can be due within just six months.
Protect the Value of Your Claim
The defense will study how you’ve followed your care plan. You have a legal duty to mitigate your damages, which in practice means attending rehabilitation, following your doctors’ instructions, and keeping every follow-up. Missed therapy becomes an argument that your limitations are partly your own doing.
Three habits protect your claim:
- Keep a daily journal, or have a family member keep one. Pain, spasms, setbacks, what you needed help with, and what you couldn’t do at all.
- Keep a running list of adaptations. Equipment, home changes, transportation, and paid or family caregiving hours. These costs are easy to forget and hard to rebuild later.
- Route every insurer contact through us. Adjusters are trained to get admissions on tape. One recorded conversation can undercut a claim that has to last a lifetime.
We coordinate with your medical providers so billing can wait until your case settles.
What Our Clients Say
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Your San Jose Legal Team
Founding attorney Jimin Oh has handled thousands of auto accident cases and is a member of Million Dollar Trial Lawyers. She built this firm after her own husband was seriously injured in a car accident; she knows how a serious injury reshapes a whole household, and she built a team around that understanding. Every case gets an attorney, a case manager, and a treatment coordinator, so your family has one team keeping track of your care, your costs, and your claim. Based at 1253 Park Ave, minutes from the Santa Clara County courthouse.
San Jose Paralysis Injury FAQs
What kinds of accidents lead to paralysis claims?
Paralysis generally results from injuries to the spinal cord or brain. Motor vehicle crashes, pedestrian accidents, falls, and sports injuries are common causes. If someone else’s negligence contributed, you may have a claim.
Who can be held responsible for my paralysis?
Often more than one party. A negligent driver is the obvious one, but a manufacturer whose product failed, such as a faulty airbag, or a local government responsible for a dangerous road or misplaced sign can share responsibility. We investigate every possibility.
I signed a liability waiver. Can I still sue?
Possibly. A waiver has to meet strict legal requirements, and it only protects a business from ordinary negligence. If the business was grossly negligent or the injury was intentional, the waiver may not stop your claim. Send it to us and we’ll review it.
I was paralyzed playing a sport. Do I have a case?
It depends on what caused the injury. You generally can’t recover for injuries that are an inherent risk of the activity itself. But if the injury came from something outside that risk, such as a facility that wasn’t properly maintained, you may have a claim.
Can compensation pay for home changes and an adapted vehicle?
Yes. Damages can help pay to renovate your home for a wheelchair, buy an adapted vehicle, and hire services you couldn’t otherwise afford, alongside medical costs, lost wages, pain, and your changed quality of life.
What if a family member was paralyzed and can't handle the claim?
Call us on their behalf. We’ll explain how the claim can move forward and who can make decisions for them, and we’ll work with the family throughout.
How long do we have to act?
Generally two years from the injury to file a lawsuit, and as little as six months if a government entity is involved. Call early; evidence about vehicles, signs, and scenes disappears quickly.
What does hiring you cost?
Nothing upfront. We work on contingency and get paid only if we win, as a percentage of your recovery. No hidden fees.
Get Your Free, Confidential Case Review, 24/7
Adjusting to paralysis is hard enough without fighting an insurer at the same time. Let us carry that part. Call now or send the form; we respond fast, 24/7, in English, Spanish, or Korean. Your consultation is free and confidential. No fee unless we win.
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1253 Park Ave
San Jose, CA 95126
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