Traumatic Brain Injuries – Critical Information from a Brain Injury Lawyer

Selecting the right traumatic brain injury lawyer is the cornerstone of a successful claim.

 Anyone can advertise their services on television or in the yellow pages. The right brain injury attorneys are lawyers and a law firm with  

• a proven and consistent track record as brain injury lawyers 
• winning substantial results for survivors of brain injury 
• the financial strength to devote the resources of time and money to achieve a  result that will last as long as a permanent brain injury 
• a reputation for excellence as brain injury attorneys that is recognized by  attorneys and the community.

Proving fault and a brain injury is not the main challenge for the brain injury lawyer.

The critical issue for brain injury attorneys is collecting for a permanent, lifetime brain injury against a wrongdoer with minimal assets or insufficient insurance coverage.   

In extremely limited cases, the wrongdoer will be an employee of a major corporation, city, county or state government; more commonly most wrongdoers do not have insurance coverage in the millions and do not have the ability to pay for long-term medical care, years of lost income and the anguish caused by brain injury. 

Learn what we have accomplished in limited insurance coverage cases for our clients.

The second major challenge for the brain injury lawyer is proving a mild brain injury. 

Severe brain injuries are obvious and not a challenge to prove. 

The survivor may be bedridden, in a wheel chair or have difficulty conversing.  The testimony of a physiatrist or neurologist with substantial brain injury experience, a brain injury lifecare plan specialist, a forensic accountant, a thoughtful video of a day’s activities and the testimony of friends and family to describe the changes from before and after brain injury completes the proof of damages by the traumatic brain injury attorney.

In comparison, a client with a disabling mild brain injury who has been forced to work a substandard job for low wages, if they can find work, appears normal.  In short s/he “looks good.”  This plaintiff walks into the courtroom, appears fine, and nobody can see the injury, including the potential jurors.

For these clients brain injury lawyers must assemble objective evidence of brain injury through neuro-radiologists using the most advanced MRIs and to call multiple neuropsychologists to corroborate their test results with the objective physical symptoms found on the MRIs, in addition to all the experts that are called in a severe brain injury claim.

As brain injury lawyers we offer this invaluable hands-on experience to our clients: 

            • $10.1 million judgment for severe brain injury and hemiparesis; 12 year-old boy 65% at fault for darting into the street; insurance company refused to pay its $50,000 policy.

            •  $8,132,000 jury verdict for a 15 year-old boy with severe brain     damage from a collision caused by a truck.

            •  $5,250,000 insurance bad faith and injury recovery collected for a wonderful San Jose couple who suffered a severe brain injury, facial and orthopedic fractures, including the loss of an eye.

            •  $4,250,000 recovery for a five year-old child who suffered severe brain injury from exposure to methanol fumes and gallium arsenide dust during pregnancy.

            •  $2,750,000 for a two year-old who suffered a brain injury as she was carried by her father crossing a street.

            • $2,250,000 for brain injury caused by a teenage driver who was drunk on beer illegally sold to him by a convenience store.

            •  $1,800,000 for a child exposed to solvents during pregnancy causing brain injury. 

            •  $1,750,000 for multiple fractures and brain injury caused by an illegal CHP pursuit of an escapee from the Youth Authority.

             •  $1,000,000 for brain injury and vertigo suffered when an uncontrolled crane struck 115,000-volt lines on a construction site.           

            •  $1,000,000 recovery for a brain injury to a 16 year-old thrown from an SUV in a rollover.           

            •  $1,000,000 for a guest on the S. S. Jeremiah O’Brien who fainted and fell from a hatch cover used for seating during a cruise, striking his head on the steel deck. 

Onward,

 Richard Alexander

1.888.777.1776

Posted on: November 6, 2009   Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death   No Comments