Brain Injury Facts
May 25, 2010
Any injury brought about through negligent or reckless conduct may involve and impairment of your ability to use your brain cognitively. Those injuries are called traumatic brain injuries. They frequently flow from automobile or truck collisions. However, those injuries may be caused by other negligent or reckless conduct outside the context of an automobile or truck collision.
Representing an individual who has sustained a traumatic brain injury is a challenging endeavor. Proving the existence of a traumatic brain injury can sometimes be difficult. Proving those injuries are difficult because oftentimes the nature and/or severity of the brain injury does not show up on imaging studies such as CT scans of the brain or MRIs or magnetic residence imaging of the brain. Other methods of diagnosing such injury include neuropsychological testing. Neuropsychological testing involves testing various components of the brain which are known to have different functions in our day-to-day lives. There is multitude of neuropsychological tests available. Interpreting those neuropsychological tests and coming to conclusions as to the likely impact of abnormal testing on a person’s day-to-day function is a very specialized area of neuropsychology. What compounds the challenge of successfully representing someone who has sustained such an injury is the fact that philosophically, there are healthcare professionals, neuropsychologists, who routinely perform neuropsychological testing but philosophically tend to believe that the existence of brain injuries from traumatic sources are few and far in between.
Notwithstanding those challenges in successfully representing someone who has sustained a brain injury, those injuries can be one of the most debilitating injuries that any human being could ever experience. Over the years in representing such individuals, we have come to know those individuals as “the walking wounded.” If you look at them, they do not appear injured. However, their ability to process information, their ability to handle complex tasks, their ability to maintain balance emotionally, and their ability to continue to have meaningful interpersonal relationships may be seriously affected by even a subtle brain injury. Further, their ability to function in the workplace may be significantly affected by such an injury. We have handled multiple traumatic brain injury cases over the years and are committed to the type of thorough investigation and workup of such a case that is necessary in order to obtain meaningful compensation for the dramatic impact on the lives of those individuals sustaining such injuries.
If you or a loved one seems to be significantly different after sustaining a traumatic injury which you believe was caused by the reckless or negligent conduct of another, we can assist you in working through the legal issues presented by such an injury. Again, we handle those cases on a contingent fee basis which means that our law firm is paid nothing for all of the time and effort of our entire staff, including the lawyers, unless we are successful in recovering. We can also assist you in financing the case by advancing the expenses associated with investigating and pursuing your claim.
