An accident that causes a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can rob victims of their ability to take care of themselves and recall cherished memories. If someone else’s carelessness is responsible for an accident and brain injury, victims and their families can seek help with medical bills and cover the cost of care in the future.
Contact Maison Law for a free case consultation. It’s a no-risk way to find out what your brain injury case is worth. Brain injury victims are eligible for benefits and support they may not be aware of.
Do I Need a Lawyer After a Brain Injury?
If your brain injury goes beyond a minor concussion and was caused by someone else’s mistake, it’s a good idea to speak with a real California Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer. You might need weeks or months of intensive care. Some patients deal with the consequences of brain trauma their entire lives. You could need support to last for years or decades.
When insurance adjusters see the enormous medical bills and home care expenses involved, they’ll use many tactics to try to get out of having to cover your costs. They look to blame you for your accident or even try to convince you your injury isn’t all that serious. Sadly, many victims sign off on settlement agreements that leave them paying for their own care in the future. Your Maison Law Attorney is your safeguard against these tactics. Your lawyer fully investigates your case so the facts can’t be changed and then demands the maximum in benefits for you and your family.
What Is Traumatic Brain Injury?
Brain trauma victims may have suffered a severe concussion after being rear-ended on the freeway by a distracted driver. They may have hit their heads on shelving after slipping on a puddle of juice left on a supermarket aisle. Victims may have fallen down some unsafe steps at work and smacked their heads on the hard tile.
These and other accidents can cause Traumatic Brain Injuries. UCLA Health reports that a TBI is an injury caused by a blow to the head that impacts brain function. They can be a penetrating TBI, where a piece of the skull or an outside object enters the brain, or a non-penetrating TBI.
Patients may experience effects that range from mild to severe:
- Mild TBI – Most likely a concussion that leaves victims confused with cloudy thoughts. Headaches and a temporary loss of short-term memory may occur.
- Moderate TBI – Structural brain damage may occur. A loss of consciousness. Changes in the victim’s emotions and mood are more noticeable.
- Severe TBI – Paralysis on one side of the body or the other. Seizures. Long-term memory loss. Brain Hemorrhaging (bleeding).
What Types of Things Should I Demand Compensation for After a Traumatic Brain Injury?
As we can see above, victims face a wide array of possible symptoms. And with the complexity of the brain, doctors may not know the severity of head trauma for weeks or months. It’s why a Traumatic Brain Injury settlement must provide enough in support to cover a variety of outcomes.
Victims may face a few months of residual effects and headaches, or they may suffer from cognitive issues that affect them their whole lives, especially at home and at work.
Your California traumatic brain injury attorney would be calculating the medical bills you’ve already built up. Your attorney would also work with your doctors and other medical experts to determine the type of financial assistance you’ll need for care in the future.
These and other factors should be part of any TBI victim’s accident compensation:
- Immediate medical bills. The ambulance fees and emergency room expenses. Unfortunately, this is usually just the start for most Traumatic Brain Injury victims.
- Rehabilitation and physical therapy. This can include sessions to relearn speech, and motor control, and to improve memory.
- Money to cover future surgeries to improve brain function or to stop recurring brain bleeding.
- The cost of future home care. Those who suffer a severe TBI may need help living at home over their entire lifetimes. The renovations necessary to help victims participate in home life and take care of themselves could also be needed at their place of work. Victims could need support for education to find a new career.
- The cost of memory care. Victims may struggle to remember things they just experienced or the things they did and learned in decades past. An at-fault party’s insurance provider could have to provide funds to pay for memory/nursing care in extreme cases.
- Past and future lost earnings while victims are out of work.
- Pain and suffering. This includes the emotional trauma victims take with them after a frightening accident and during a difficult recovery. A loss of enjoyment of life can also earn support.
- Travel costs. These expenses can be enormous if you are off your feet and unable to drive when required at doctor appointments.
- Wrongful death benefits. Families who lose a loved one to the effects of a brain injury can seek support to avoid financial bankruptcy after the death. A California Wrongful Death Lawyer can file a wrongful death claim on behalf of a spouse children, and other family members to seek help with funeral costs and leftover medical bills.
Will My Traumatic Brain Injury Case Go to Trial?
Not usually. The large majority of personal injury cases aren’t decided in court. Victims file a brain injury claim against the at-fault party’s insurance provider. Then the matter is usually resolved as your attorney negotiates for the most in compensation possible, earning a fair settlement check for you.
Insurance companies have an incentive to make you happy with a settlement amount because they don’t want to face the cost or the bad publicity of a trial.
However, if an insurance company doesn’t want to accept full blame or provide everything you need to recover, your Maison Law representative is ready to file a lawsuit on your behalf. Your lawyer would have powerful evidence in hand to force an insurer to accept 100% liability before a judge and jury.
Contact a California Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer
Speak with a skilled California Traumatic Brain Injury Attorney after an accident leaves you or a loved one with a brain injury. It’s important to know about every benefit available to you and your family because an insurance representative won’t be informing you about your options.
Contact Maison Law for a free, no-obligation consultation. It’s a no-risk way to find out what your accident injury is worth and what you should be holding an insurance company to. You are under no obligation, but if you hire us, you don’t have to worry about having the money to pay us. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then our pay comes out of the settlement money an insurance company is forced to provide.
