Trying Disc Injury Cases: Defeating the Degeneration Defense

by Robert Simon

Spinal injuries are the most common type of injury in many areas of personal injury law. In this comprehensive guide, trial lawyer Robert Simon reveals proven strategies for handling spinal disc injury litigation. Trying Disc Injury Defeating the Degeneration Defense teaches the fundamentals of the anatomy, medicine, and law involved in spinal disc injury cases. Simon covers how to defeat the defense’s tactics, defang their experts, and discredit common arguments like claims that your client will “heal in three to six months” or that “no one can get a disc injury from this type of collision.” Offering case studies to demonstrate his approach, as well as an introduction to the necessary medicine lawyers need to understand, Simon shows how disc injury cases can lead to big wins that give your clients the justice they deserve. As Simon writes, “These cases have real value and have given me some of my largest verdicts.” Simon’s firm has handled hundreds of spine injury cases and he has spent years developing effective strategies and learning from some of the best in the business. Simon has taken numerous spine injury cases to verdict with outcomes ranging from $500,000 to $17 million. His methods have been tested in liberal, conservative, urban, and rural jurisdictions. He’s won cases with severe to no vehicle damage (the damage in Simon’s $17 million case was “so minor you could hardly see it”), and with clients who have been anywhere from nineteen- to eighty-four-years old and from every social and economic background.

400 pages, Paperback

Published January 29, 2025