If you’ve been in a serious motor vehicle accident while operating an auto, motorcycle, truck, SUV or other type of car, bicycle, off-road vehicle or while walking as a pedestrian, there is the possibility that you may have suffered a fracture of one or more bones. Sometimes because of the swelling around the site of the initial fracture, common X-rays will not reveal the fracture. It is only after that part of the body swells up even more and repeat X-rays are taken, that some broken bones are diagnosed.

California personal injury attorney Sebastian Gibson has represented numerous clients in accidents who have suffered fractures and other serious injuries. In over 25 years of experience in Southern California alone and additional years of practice in London, England, he has represented accident victims from San Diego to the Palm Springs Desert area, from Orange County and Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and throughout the counties of Riverside, San Bernardino and the Imperial County.

Fractures have different terms which are commonly used by physicians. These include the simple fracture which is the most common fracture. A simple fracture is one in which only the bone is broken. To complicate matters, there can also be multiple simple fractures and fractures are further described as open or closed, and hairline.

There are also compound fractures, comminuted fractures, and complicated fractures. A person with any type of fracture has a personal injury claim of more significance than a person with only a strain or sprain or simple neck or back pain.

Insurance companies love to argue that the value of a case is small where the injured accident victim only has “soft tissue” injuries. When a person has one or more fractures, that argument goes out the window. The worse the fracture or fractures, the more value an injury has, in general.

If you’ve been injured in an auto, car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian or any other kind of motor vehicle accident in California, call California personal injury lawyer Sebastian Gibson today for a free consultation in your home or hospital. We take personal injury cases on contingence and if we don’t obtain a recovery for you, there is no fee whatsoever. All costs of litigation are paid by us and we are reimbursed for these costs only if we recover money on your case.

Remember, insurance companies are in business to make money and are not known for being generous. If an insurance company tells you not to get an attorney, its not to save you money, its to save them money.