Rear-End Collision Spine Injuries and Preexisting Conditions: Establishing Causation and Damages
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will discuss car accident spine injuries from rear-end collisions and offer guidance on recurring challenges related to preexisting conditions and causation.
Outline
- Types of spine injuries commonly seen after rear-end collisions
- Types of preexisting conditions
- Asymptomatic
- Symptomatic preexisting condition that is worsened
- Overall physicality is diminished
- Physical and mental preexisting conditions
- Proving causation
- Different injury
- Aggravated injury
- Categories of evidence
- Medical records
- Medical expert testimony
- IMEs
- Pitfalls to avoid
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Is the driver behind always at fault in rear-end accidents and how does this affect damages?
- What types of medical experts are most useful for plaintiffs and defendants in rear-end collision cases?
Faculty
Dr. Matthew J. DeGaetano
Program Director and Founder
Personal Injury Institute & Axon Medical Centers
Licensed as a chiropractor, Dr. DeGaetano has worked with medical doctors, chiropractors and law firms all over the... | Read More
Licensed as a chiropractor, Dr. DeGaetano has worked with medical doctors, chiropractors and law firms all over the United States to help professionals work together across disciplinary lines. His areas of expertise include whiplash and brain trauma, the biomechanics of spine trauma, soft tissue injury and repair, pain and proprioceptive neurology, and the management of spine and spine-related disorders.
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Dr. Sean M. Jones-Quaidoo
Orthopedic Surgeon
Axon Medical Centers
Dr. Sean M. Jones-Quaidoo is a board certified and fellowship trained orthopaedic spine specialist in Dallas, that... | Read More
Dr. Sean M. Jones-Quaidoo is a board certified and fellowship trained orthopaedic spine specialist in Dallas, that specializes in degenerative spinal disorders.
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Eustace de Saint Phalle
Principal
Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver
Mr. de Saint Phalle has established himself as one of California’s top personal injury trial lawyers, having... | Read More
Mr. de Saint Phalle has established himself as one of California’s top personal injury trial lawyers, having personally litigated multiple cases to settlement, verdict, or judgment with awards in excess of $1,000,000 and as high as $25,000,000. For the last fifteen years, he has been running a trial team dedicated to the representation of injured individuals in California which has handled matters specializing in civil litigation that involve complicated medical issues and disabilities. Mr. de Saint Phalle is an accomplished civil litigator in a variety of areas, including industrial accidents, product liability, exceptions to workers’ compensation, premises liability, professional malpractice, auto, bicycle and boating accidents, as well as business disputes.
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