What Will A Traumatic Brain Injury Attorney Do For
You?
Traumatic brain
injury, TBI, occurs when the head is injured in any way
causing damage to the brain. It can result in an open
head injury, where the skull is pierced by an object, or
a closed head injury where the skull remains intact. The
brain injury may be caused by falling, knocking one's
head against something, or by a motor vehicle accident.
Unfortunately, as there are more and more cars on the
road, there are more and more vehicle accidents, leading
to more traumatic brain injury.
Reports
state that there are over two million traumatic brain injuries
each year in the US alone. With this increase in brain injury
is a corresponding increase in the number of claims filed by
victims who are seeking compensation for their injuries. This
has resulted in a large number of attorneys specializing in
traumatic brain injuries. These traumatic brain injury
attorneys develop a large amount of expertise in this field by
dealing solely with this type of claim.
Traumatic
brain injury happens suddenly and can cause a whole array of
symptoms, for headaches to paralysis to sleep problems to a
change of personality. A traumatic brain injury attorney will
investigate the accident, seeing what major adjustments have
had to be made to the victim's lifestyle as a result of the
accident, and whether there is permanent disability. The
attorneys also take into account the affect that the injury has
on the life of the family too, as injury never just affects the
injured.
Since
brain damage and recovery of the brain from injury is so
difficult to pin down, traumatic brain injury attorneys can
have a great deal of work involved to try to prove each claim.
They will ask for compensation based on the expected life and
lifestyle of the injured person, and in some cases this figure
can be very high to cover the treatment and rehabilitation of
the brain injured person for many years.
If you or
a member of your family are involved in an accident causing
traumatic brain damage that you feel is the result of someone's
carelessness, then you may want to talk to a traumatic brain
injury attorney to see if a claim is advisable. Each individual
case is unique and has to be dealt with separately with regards
to its likely success, and the stress involved. There are an
increasing number of traumatic brain injury attorneys around,
especially in the bigger cities, so a little investigation is
advisable to find one that suits your needs and
views.
But even
when dealing with traumatic brain injury attorneys, remember to
take into account the needs of all family members. After all,
although the injured person is suffering, so to will the
family, as they deal with the consequences of the accident, and
the effect it has on their lives.
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