I (Attorney Peter Pearson) grew up in Western Maine. For part of my childhood my family lived atop a small mountain called Storer Hill. The school bus did not come to the top and it was about a mile from the bus stop to our home. During the winter months I would often sled down the mountain to catch the school bus. Usually I used a plastic sled, but one morning, after an ice storm, I decided to sled down the hill on a runner sled. In case you are not familiar with runner sleds, they consist of a steel frame (with runners that glide along the ice) topped with a wooden platform for you to lie on). Runner sleds are extremely fast on ice.

The combination of the runner sled and the steep mountain road did me in. As I approached the bottom of the run I was going way too fast. I was coming closer and closer to the bottom – where the asphalt road began and a bridge also. I knew that if I wasn’t thrown as soon as I hit the asphalt, I would either smack into the bridge or end up in the river.

It seemed better to crash on the way down the last hill than in the middle of a road so I intentionally drove into a snow bank. Unfortunately the snow bank turned out to be an ice bank and I did not get the soft landing I anticipated. Amazingly all I broke was my left wrist.

I whimpered my way to school and sat through classes until the pain got so unbearable my teacher called my parents and off I went to the Emergency Room. I still remember the shock and the pain.

I broke my wrist because I was being a dumb kid. But your fracture came about because of someone else’s misconduct or negligence. Fracture cases require great attention to detail and documentation in order to win a fair result. The insurance company is not going to run up the white flag just because you have an X-ray that shows a break. There are numerous issues that go into documenting a fracture case and we would be happy to discuss them with you.

Attorney Peter Pearson is located in Atlanta, but represents clients throughout the State of Georgia.

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