If you’ve suffered a neck and back injury in a Boerne-area car wreck, truck collision, or fall, you need an attorney who understands what your family is actually facing. These injuries can result in paraplegia or quadriplegia, and the rehab and daily assistance they require may never end.
Specialized neck and back injury care for the Boerne area routes through San Antonio facilities, and the costs that follow can stretch across a lifetime. These claims are valued differently than routine injury cases because the long-term financial impact can reach millions of dollars.
As a Boerne accident lawyer focused on catastrophic claims, Lane Diamond serves Kendall County families personally and on a contingency fee basis. Call (210) 900-3259 today for a free consultation to learn exactly where you stand.
Neck and Back Injury Attorneys Serving Boerne
Lane Diamond Law represents neck and back injury victims across Boerne and Kendall County from its San Antonio office at 3519 Paesanos Parkway, Suite 100A. When you call, you speak directly with Attorney Lane Diamond, not a paralegal or an intake coordinator.
Insurance adjusters may already be reaching out with offers that don’t reflect what your claim is actually worth, even while you’re still learning the full extent of your injury. A neck and back injury diagnosis can overwhelm your entire family at once. The medical, financial, and legal questions rarely come in a clear order.
Roughly 18,482 new traumatic neck and back injuries are reported in the United States every year, according to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center. Each one carries a financial toll that extends far beyond the initial hospital stay.
If your injury happened in Kendall County, your case would be filed at the 451st District Court in Boerne. Our firm handles filing your case, investigating the accident, and negotiating with the insurance company so you and your family can focus on what comes next.
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Why Choose Lane Diamond Law for Your Neck and Back Injury Case
Neck and back injury claims demand both legal skill and financial expertise. Most firms don’t bring both. Attorney Lane Diamond holds a Juris Doctor and an MBA in Finance from the University of Houston.
He understands the lifetime cost projections and economic loss models that drive what a catastrophic injury case is actually worth. That combination counts when the gap between a low settlement and a fair one can be measured in millions of dollars.
You won’t get lost in the shuffle here. Lane Diamond Law keeps a deliberately small caseload so that every client has direct access to their attorney throughout the entire process. You won’t be passed from paralegal to paralegal or left waiting for a callback. When you have a question, you get a straight answer from the attorney handling it. Small caseload. Straight answers. No runaround.
Types of Cases We Handle in Boerne
Four main categories of accidents cause most neck and back injuries in the Boerne and Kendall County area. Our firm handles claims arising from all of them.
- Car and truck accidents: Vehicle crashes account for 37.3% of all neck and back injuries nationally, according to NSCISC data collected since 2015. A high-speed collision on I-10, US-87, or any of the two-lane roads running through the Hill Country can generate enough force to fracture vertebrae and damage the neck and back permanently. If your neck and back injury resulted from a Boerne truck accident or car wreck, we can help you pursue a personal injury claim against the at-fault driver or their employer.
- Motorcycle accidents: Riders have almost no structural protection in a crash, which makes neck and back injuries far more common in Boerne motorcycle accident cases than in standard vehicle collisions.
- Pedestrian accidents: A pedestrian struck by a vehicle can suffer devastating spinal trauma. These claims often involve Boerne pedestrian accident scenarios where a driver failed to yield or was distracted.
- Falls and premises liability: Falls cause roughly one-third of all neck and back injuries, with adults over 65 facing the highest risk. A Boerne slip and fall on a negligently maintained property can produce the same catastrophic outcome as a high-speed wreck.
How Texas Law Affects Your Neck and Back Injury Case
Texas gives you two years from the date of your injury to file a personal injury lawsuit. That deadline applies to neck and back injury claims the same way it applies to any other injury case. The statute of limitations is set by Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003(a). Miss it, and you lose the right to pursue compensation entirely.
Two years may sound like a long time, but building a catastrophic injury claim requires gathering medical records, consulting life-care planners, and documenting losses that are still unfolding. Acting early gives your attorney the time to do that work properly.
Texas also follows a proportionate responsibility rule under § 33.001, which is sometimes called the 51% bar. If a jury determines that your own negligence contributed more than 50% to the accident that caused your injury, you can’t recover any compensation at all.
If your share of fault is 50% or below, your recovery is reduced by that percentage. Insurance companies know this rule well. They will look for any evidence to push your share of fault over that line.
What Is a Neck and Back Injury?
Your neck and back is the bundle of nerves running from your brain through your vertebral column. It carries every signal that controls movement, sensation, and organ function throughout your body.
When an accident fractures or dislocates vertebrae, the neck and back itself can be compressed, torn, or severed. That damage disrupts communication between your brain and everything below the point of injury. How much function you lose depends on where the damage is and how severe it is.
Working adults. Retirees. People in ordinary car wrecks and falls on poorly maintained property. Roughly 311,560 people in the United States are currently living with a traumatic neck and back injury. The average age at the time of injury is 44 years old.
Understanding the type of injury you or your family member is facing is important. It directly affects both the medical care you’ll need going forward and the value of a potential legal claim.
Complete and Incomplete Injuries
A complete neck and back injury causes total loss of sensation and voluntary movement below the injury site. Modern medicine cannot reverse the damage.
An incomplete injury, by contrast, means some motor or sensory function is preserved below the point of damage. Recovery is possible through intensive rehabilitation, though it varies widely depending on the location and extent of the trauma.
Physicians use the ASIA Impairment Scale to grade severity. The scale ranges from A, a complete injury with no preserved function, through E, which represents normal motor and sensory function.
Paraplegia and Quadriplegia
Where the injury occurs on the spine determines the type of paralysis that results. Injuries to the cervical spine, meaning the vertebrae in the neck, cause quadriplegia, also called tetraplegia, which affects all four limbs, the trunk, and often breathing and organ function.
Injuries lower on the spine, in the thoracic, lumbar, or sacral regions, cause paraplegia, which affects the legs and pelvic organs while leaving the arms and upper body functional. Males account for approximately 78% of all new traumatic neck and back injury cases reported since 2015, though anyone involved in a serious accident is at risk.
Lifetime Care Costs
Lifetime care costs for a 25-year-old with high tetraplegia exceed $5 million, according to the National neck and back Injury Statistical Center. First-year medical costs alone for the most severe injuries regularly surpass $1 million. Those figures don’t include lost wages or reduced productivity, which averaged $97,787 per year in 2025 dollars.
For families, that means years of attendant care, a home that needs rebuilding for wheelchair access, equipment that needs replacing, and no clear end point. Life-care planners and forensic economists are typically brought in to project these future costs and establish what a claim is actually worth.
Where Do Boerne Families Go for Neck and Back Injury Rehabilitation?
Boerne and Kendall County don’t have a full-service hospital, and Methodist ER Boerne is a freestanding emergency room only. After initial stabilization, neck and back injury patients from the area are transported to San Antonio for acute trauma care and long-term rehabilitation.
University Hospital in San Antonio is an ACS-verified Level I trauma center and typically handles the most severe injuries coming out of the Hill Country.
For specialized inpatient rehabilitation after the acute phase, PAM Health Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antonio, located at 5101 Medical Drive, is one of the region’s leading neck and back injury rehabilitation facilities. It holds a Joint Commission Certificate of Distinction for neck and back injury rehab and operates 65 beds in partnership with University Health.
It was also the first rehabilitation hospital in San Antonio to offer EksoNR robotic exoskeleton technology for neck and back injury recovery. A second PAM Health Warm Springs location in Northeast San Antonio provides additional capacity.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are neck and back injury claims valued higher than other injury claims?
neck and back injury claims are valued differently because the damages extend across an entire lifetime, not just the weeks or months following an accident. A routine injury claim might account for an emergency room visit, a few months of physical therapy, and a temporary gap in income.
A neck and back injury claim has to cover costs that span decades, from ongoing medical care to losing part or all of your earning capacity. Without specialized financial analysis to document those projected costs, insurance companies will undervalue the case by treating it like any other injury.
What long-term costs does a neck and back injury claim need to cover?
A Texas neck and back injury claim typically needs to account for six categories of damages. Medical expenses include emergency care, surgeries, hospitalizations, and ongoing treatment. Attendant care covers in-home nursing, personal assistance, and round-the-clock support for patients with severe paralysis. Rehabilitation and assistive technology include physical therapy, occupational therapy, wheelchairs, hospital beds, and adaptive equipment.
Home and vehicle modifications cover ramp installation, widened doorways, accessible bathrooms, and vehicle conversion for wheelchair use. Lost wages and reduced earning capacity reflect both current income loss and the projected income you’ll never earn. Finally, pain and suffering, emotional distress, and loss of consortium are recoverable under Texas law. They acknowledge the personal toll that no dollar figure can fully capture. For more answers to common injury-claim questions, visit our FAQ page.
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How Lane Diamond Law Can Help
If you need a Boerne accident attorney for a neck and back injury claim, you don’t have to face it alone. Attorney Lane Diamond has over 20 years of experience handling catastrophic injury cases.
He will work with you personally from your first call through the day your claim is resolved. Every neck and back injury case our firm takes is built on real medical evidence, qualified life-care planning, and aggressive negotiation with the insurance company on your behalf.
Call (210) 900-3259 today to schedule a free consultation and find out whether you have a case. No upfront cost. No fee unless we win.
