Bakersfield accident victims suffering muscle strains must receive the best care available and the support to pay for that care.
We represent local victims who are struck by reckless drivers and left with painful tissue strains and tears. If you have suffered whiplash or any serious injury, contact us for a free consultation.
When You Should Call a Lawyer After Suffering a Muscle Injury
If you suffer only minor soreness or bruising and your pain fades quickly, you may not need a lawyer’s help with your case. If your accident only involves car damage, you can probably get by without a lawyer.
But muscle strains can be much more serious. They can keep you from using a limb because of the extreme pain. A strain could keep you out of work for weeks or months. The cost of care and economic losses increase the value of your case, and that makes insurance adjusters put up their defenses to keep you from securing everything you need.
They can try to blame you for your accident or even use their company doctors to cast doubt on how bad your tissue damage is.
But you’ll have Maison Law Accident & Injuries Lawyers on your team. Our attorneys fully investigate what happened and back your case with powerful evidence. It’s the best safeguard against insurance tactics.
Your lawyer can especially add value to your case if your accident involves these or other muscle injuries:
- Muscle tear. When the muscle is torn in half.
- Muscle tissue damage in the back or neck (whiplash).
- Tendon detachment. The tissue that attaches the muscle to the bone.
- An injury caused by the overextension of a muscle in a collision.
You always have the right to handle your case yourself, but with a serious injury, a lawyer can often win you much more to help now and for the years ahead.
A Free Consultation with a Real Bakersfield Car Accident Attorney
Maison Law Accident & Injury Lawyers are happy to sit down with or hop on the phone with car accident victims in Kern County. It’s an absolutely free case consultation. There’s no obligation for this meeting, and it’s strictly confidential.
It’s the perfect, no-risk option when you aren’t sure if they have a case or not. Let’s go over your questions and find your best path to receiving help in getting your life back on track.
If we can’t help you earn more, we’ll make sure you know how to handle your own case successfully. If we can help you, we will stand by you until you have secured the compensation you need to rebuild your life after a painful muscle tear.
What You Can Expect in an Injury Compensation Check
Arriving at an accurate estimate of what you might earn for a car accident injury claim will take some time. Your lawyer will need to look into what happened, the other driver’s car insurance policy, and go over your injury diagnosis with medical experts. That might involve sending an accident reconstruction team on a trip to the scene along a busy road like Chester Avenue.
With evidence in hand, your attorney’s experience will help them gauge what you may earn soon enough. But in the meantime, there are certain factors that always play a big role in the size of a victim’s settlement check.
The severity of the injury, how long recovery takes, and the degree to which your muscle strain affects your life will determine a big part of your award. The totals on your lost time at work are another easy factor to add up. The at-fault driver’s car insurance provider should cover all of it.
These are a few of the things that your attorney would demand full support for:
- Support so you can afford the best medical care available for as long as necessary
- Support for the long-term if your injuries result in a permanent disability
- Support for the pain you experience and that you may suffer with for months or years.
- Support for the emotional trauma you experience after an impact and a discouraging recovery process
- Support for your loss of enjoyment of life while you can’t enjoy your hobbies and family activities
- Support to replace the job income and benefits you have to go without while your muscles are healing
The Lingering Effects of Muscle Strains
The Cleveland Clinic explains the three levels of muscle strains that doctors diagnose:
- Grade I. The lowest grade in severity. When your injury damages some of the fibers that make up a muscle. There is minimal tearing, and the muscle remains intact. Healing may only take a few days or a couple of weeks.
- Grade II. The muscle is partially torn. The victim’s range of motion can be affected in the region of the body where the injury occurred. The body part could also become weak. This injury takes longer to heal.
- Grade III. This is the worst type of strain. It means the muscle has been completely torn through. Victims can require surgery to reattach the muscle. Patients may have to wait 4 to 6 months to feel back to normal again.
Victims can also suffer spasms in damaged muscles and will often be given inflammation medication. Our page on slipped disc car accident injuries also offers more information if your back injury stems from a rupture in your spinal column.
How a Lawyer Can Help If You Have Muscle Strains After a Car Accident
Even when victims don’t end up having to have surgery or spend an extended time in the hospital, their losses at work can reach into the tens of thousands of dollars. This loss of income can leave victims behind on car payments, mortgages, and credit card bills. Patients can be on the brink of bankruptcy, while a car insurance company delays.
It’s often up to an experienced lawyer to help victims prove they were innocent in an accident. A lawyer also goes to the negotiating table for victims and demands the maximum in support. Their experience plays a big role in assessing any insurance settlement offer that arrives. A legal professional will know when victims can and should earn more. That settlement can be rejected, and Maison Law Accident & Injury Attorneys can demand.
Contact a Bakersfield Muscle Strain Injury Lawyer
If you suffered a serious muscle strain or tear, and a careless driver caused your accident, it’s a good idea to take advantage of a free case review. Contact us to set up a meeting with a real lawyer.
Victims have a deadline of two years from the date of the collision to file a claim. But patients shouldn’t wait months to explore their options. Evidence can disappear or get lost, and witnesses can move away and become harder to contact. Contact a skilled attorney within days of your accident while the evidence is still fresh.
We also understand that medications, surgeries, and physical therapy for a muscle tear can quickly wipe out your savings. You may not have the money to hire a lawyer. But don’t worry. If you need us, we’re there. We only get paid if we win your case for you. Then our attorney’s fee comes out of the settlement check that an insurance company writes for you.