If a latent injury has disrupted your life, you may have grounds for a much larger personal injury case than you initially expected.
Some injuries seem trivial yet develop into life-altering medical concerns.
We often meet accident victims who experienced little to no pain right after an auto collision, slip-and-fall incident, or even suspected medical malpractice. But as time passes, their health, happiness, and livelihood are turned upside down by pain and suffering.
Washington law generally limits the time you have to file a claim. It’s critical to act quickly and reach out to our personal injury specialists to discuss your options confidentially.
How minor injuries lead to major cases
There isn’t always an obvious link between current pain and a previous accident. Delayed injury symptoms may take months to emerge, so it can be surprisingly hard to attribute them to a specific event.
Unfortunately, many people are left with uncompensated medical bills, pain and suffering, and even disabilities.
- Delayed symptoms are especially common with conditions like whiplash, concussions, or even internal injuries.
- Complications like chronic pain or limited mobility often arise over time.
- Cumulative health impact can be substantial, especially if you have a physically demanding job that worsens injury symptoms.
- Financial implications build up over the course of years. They include not only direct treatment costs, but also lost wages, ongoing therapy/rehab, and so forth.
For example, it’s not uncommon to suffer a herniated disc in the neck or back. But if the disc doesn’t press on a nerve, then it’s probably not painful and therefore not diagnosed. The problem is that herniated discs rarely stop progressing—let alone heal on their own. They tend to worsen gradually until they eventually do press on a nerve, leading to debilitating pain, extensive treatment, a long road to recovery, and potentially lifelong consequences.
Another common situation is minor head/neck pain or migraines. You might have struggled with them for years due to poor posture, old sports injuries, unlucky genes, or any number of non-traumatic reasons. So, following a relatively small accident, it can be hard to tell new issues from a flare-up of old ones. But that’s exactly the sort of thing a doctor often can distinguish. For instance, clients are frequently surprised to learn that their pain or migraine is actually the result of a concussion sustained in an accident.
These are just a couple of the most common situations. Dozens of other types of injuries may emerge long after an accident.
We fully support all our cases with thorough medical review and analysis, so you can identify unnoticed injuries as soon as possible. That way, we can fight for fair compensation before you rack up years of medical expenses and life disruption.
Our experience makes the difference
Injury cases are often surrounded by mountains of tasks and technicalities.
How do you link your injury to an accident? How should you document its ongoing effects? What kinds of medical reports and analyses are helpful? How do you even begin to calculate the total financial burden?
There’s simply no substitute for our experience. And at Bridge Law, we have decades of combined experience handling these complexities to build rock-solid cases for maximum compensation.
If you’ve experienced any loss in quality of life following an accident or injury, then you may have more options than you realize.
We’re in your corner. Reach out now to discuss your situation promptly and privately.
