QUADRIPLEGIA INJURY ATTORNEY
Houston personal injury attorney Hugh Howerton is one of America's top rated attorneys and accepts quadriplegia injury cases in Houston and across Texas.
Hugh Howerton knows that everything is at stake with these most serious of all injuries. It takes a special and skilled attorney to represent the best interests of someone who has sufferred a tetraplegia/quadriplegia injury.
WHY HIRE HUGH
Selected as one of the TOP 100 trial lawyers in Texas by The National Trial Lawyers, an organization composed of the top 100 trial lawyers from each state. Membership is obtained through special invitation and is extended only to those attorneys who exemplify superior qualifications, leadership, reputation, influence, stature, and profile as trial lawyers
Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and Board Certified Civil Trial Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy
"AV" rated which is the highest rating awarded for legal skill and ethics. Less than 5% of all attorneys in America have an "AV" rating.
24 years experience representing injured victims in serious personal injury cases
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INFORMATION ABOUT QUADRIPLEGIA INJURIES
Quadriplegia / Tetraplegia is when a person has a spinal cord injury above the first thoracic vertebra, paralysis usually affects the cervical spinal nerves resulting in paralysis of all four limbs. In addition to the arms and legs being paralyzed, the abdominal and chest muscles will also be affected resulting in weakened breathing and the inability to properly cough and clear the chest.
The most common cervical level for spinal cord injury is C5, followed by C6 and then C4. T12 is the most common thoracic level for spinal cord injury.
SPINAL CORD INJURY COSTS
Length of initial hospitalization is 15 says in an acute care unit
Average stay in rehabilitation unit: 44 days
Initial hospitalization costs following injury: $140,000
Average first year expenses for a SCI injury (all groups): $198,000
First year expenses for paraplegics: $152,000
First year expenses for quadriplegics: $417,000
Average lifetime costs for paraplegics, age of injury 25: $428,000
Average lifetime costs for quadriplegics, age of injury 25: $1.35 million
Percentage of SCI individuals who are covered by private health insurance at time of injury 52%
Percentage of SCI individuals unemployed eight years after injury 63%. (Note: unemployment rate when this article was written was 4.7%)
SPINAL CORD INJURY RESOURCES
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
HOW HUGH HANDLES A QUADRIPLEGIA INJURY CASE
In tetraplegia-quadriplegia cases “Day-In-The-Life’ videos are created to show how the clients are affected by their injury. Since future medical care costs are generally very expensive with this type of injury Mr. Howerton hires qualified expert witnesses in life care planning and economics to determine and prove the cost future medical care and calculate the loss of future earning capacity so that the full measure of his client’s losses are proven.
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Law Offices of Hugh Howerton
13030 Rummel Creek
Houston, Texas 77079
713.984.9848 or toll free 877.984.9848
Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Law
Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Hugh Howerton handles tetraplegia-quadriplegia spinal cord injury cases in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, Amarillo, Midland, Lubbock, Austin, Beaumont, Laredo & McAllen and surrounding cities and towns
Hugh Howerton also accepts tetraplegia/quadriplegia injury cases in Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Lousiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Arizona and Florida. If you live in another state call us and we may be able to help you. If not, we can help you locate a competent attorney in your area.
