Negligent acts that result to quadriplegia have right to seek legal assistance to help defray medical bills, compensate for pain and suffering and provide for future lost income. You can assist them into finding an experienced personal injury lawyer practicing spinal cord injury lawsuits. Quadriplegia victims need intelligent and investigative attorneys who will find all coverage are able to devise theories to involve other parties potentially at fault for injury.

In many of these cases, insurance companies and negligent parties can provide substantial compensation to victims of these injuries. On other hand, if available insurance coverage is adequate enough, say like a million dollar policy is involved company will have reason to fight claims. This they will do to avoid paying large sums to injured person and in this instance, victim’s attorney need to be an experienced trial lawyer, too.

Like other personal injury cases, time is critical, as time goes on, victims may lose some of their rights. Thus, it will greatly help success of a spinal cord injury lawsuit to begin evidence collection and take information immediately after accident.

So, now that your claim was denied, what do you do, now? Don’t wait out idly, request for an appeal immediately! There is a 60-day deadline, time enough for you to file appeal. The appeal to ask for is a request for reconsideration and you have to go about this yourself, personally even if you have a representation. This is simply to have appeal request “officially” on record at SSA office where you filed your initial claim.

What will happen if you fail to file for appeal within 60 day period? The answer to this is that you have lost all your appeal rights and will start over at very beginning – with a new Social Security Disability or SSI application, which is unfortunate for you because, first you could have best chance of winning a claim and being awarded benefits if you had gone through social security disability appeals process. Second point, filing another appeal entirely is a waste of valuable time. Subsequent applications will likely be denied for same reasons as first application.

So, don’t wait out forever feeling sorry for yourself once your case is denied! Contact social security office and your attorney or non-attorney representative immediately to avoid missing an appeal deadline.