Brain Injuries

Cases involving traumatic brain injuries (TBI) can be some of the most challenging a trial attorney can face. Not only does it involve complicated medical issues but the handling of sensitive personal and client issues. A client who has a TBI or has a loved one with a TBI will likely find this to be the most difficult times in their lives. You must have a compassionate yet aggressive attorney to handle your matter.

Often times the most difficult legal aspect of a traumatic brain injury case is the insurance adjuster. The insurance adjust will be skeptical because conventional diagnosis test (EEG, MIR, X-Ray and CAT Scan) will come up with negative results. Further, distinct medical disciplines sometimes do not render complimentary results. Frequently, the TBI patient is sent from one specialist to another with little to no result leading the defendant, defense counsel and insurance adjuster to view the client as a malinger

Mild traumatic brain injury, or MTBI, can be defined as traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function as manifested by any period of loss of consciousness of approximately 30 minutes or less; any loss of memory for events immediately before or after the incident, but not lasting more than 24 hours; any alteration in mental status at the time of the accident, such as feeling dazed, disoriented, or confused; or any focal neurological deficit that may or may not be transient.

There are numerous goals that must be accomplished for a successful representation of a client. Your attorneys must, needless to say, have a significant knowledge concerning the brain and the ability to communicate that information into a compelling, concise and easily understood story of the case. To this end, your law firm should hire the requisite number of experts such as:

  1. Neurologist
  2. Neuropsychologist
  3. Neuropsychiatrist

Armed with this information, your attorney should be able to paint a detailed and compelling picture of the client’s limitations and injuries.

Call us today at 619-615-0767 or contact us online to see if you are entitled to monetary damages for your injuries.