Western North Carolina Personal Injury Blog

Other than a traumatic brain injury, the type of injury that most people fear from a car accident is a spinal cord injury. Bones, cuts and lacerations can heal, often within weeks. However, when you suffer an injury to your spinal cord, you may face losing your ability to return to the life you had prior to the accident, for months or possibly forever.

While many people do go on to live normal lives after paralysis, few things remain the same. If you or a loved one suffer a spinal cord injury in an accident caused by someone else, you may want to seek support in pursuing the compensation you deserve and will need to help with current and future medical and care needs.

Kids need to blow off steam and built-up energy during the day. How many parents have joked that if they could bottle the energy their young children have, they could make millions? All joking aside, sitting in a classroom all day without releasing that extra energy makes it difficult to concentrate and do well, which is why recess is so important at certain ages.

When you send your child off to school, you expect the teachers and other staff members to keep him or her safe. What you, and many North Carolina parents, may not realize is that school playgrounds can be dangerous. You may expect trips and falls, bumps on the head or other minor injuries to occur, but what if your child suffers a serious injury on the school playground?