Turlock Brain Injury Lawyer

Maison Law represents brain injury victims in Turlock and Stanislaus County. We stand by our clients through a difficult recovery and ensure they receive the support they need now and in the years ahead. Victims should contact us for a free, no-obligation consultation. It’s a no-risk opportunity to find out what your injury may be worth and how to hold an at-fault party fully responsible.

Do I Need a Lawyer After a Head Injury?

Accident victims usually don’t need a lawyer for their cases when they only involve very minor injuries. Sadly, car accidents or falls involving blows to the head and brain aren’t usually minor.

Head injuries can affect the brain’s function for days or weeks and may even limit the victim’s control over their own bodies. The cost of medical care, surgery, and cognitive therapy will be expensive. The more the costs rise, the more insurance companies for those at fault fight to avoid taking financial responsibility. Insurance adjusters can try to blame an accident on the victim or try to downplay how long the victim will experience symptoms.

Your Maison Law Brain Injury Attorney fully investigates your case and gathers evidence so the blame can’t be turned around on you. Then we demand the maximum in benefits for you and your family.

Brain Injury In Accidents Around Turlock

Brain injuries can result from anything we do that can cause a strong blow to the head. That definitely includes merging into fast-moving traffic along Highway 99 or Monte Vista Avenue. A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is also possible as we walk into a store or travel down the stairs in a city parking garage. We can slip on trash left on the floor or on a step and take a tumble that leaves us with a powerful bump on the head.

These are just a few of the types of accidents that can cause major head injuries:

• Car accident
• Truck collision
• Motorcycle impact
• Bicycle Accident
• Pedestrian Accident
• Fall from a great height
• A fall down stairs at an apartment building or a public building
• A slip-and-fall at a place of business, like a grocery store, when the head hits a shelf or smacks the floor
• An object falling from overhead, such as when shopping at a home improvement store
• Workplace injury, including risks around heavy machinery and tools
• Sports injury
• Violent attacks

California personal injury laws empower victims to seek help from any individual, business or property owner, or government entity that fails in its duty to keep others safe. With a head or brain injury, victims should be able to count on support for weeks, months, or a lifetime if necessary. A Maison Law attorney helps victims seek estimates on their future care to make sure this support is included in any brain injury settlement check.

What Is a Traumatic Brain Injury?

A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) covers the types of brain injuries people can get when they suffer strikes to the head. The Mayo Clinic explains that TBIs are usually caused by jolts to the head or body. They can also be caused by something penetrating the brain, as in a gunshot injury.

In a minor TBI, perhaps a concussion, the function of brain cells can be affected temporarily. In more serious cases, the brain is damaged and may suffer bleeding, torn tissue, and bruising.

Mild TBIs can mean dizziness, blurred vision, and headaches for the victim. More serious TBIs might cause convulsions, numbness in the extremities, and memory loss and amnesia. Some victims fall into a coma.

The treatment for more serious brain injuries can come with risks and be very expensive. The Mayo Clinic says these may be some of the reasons emergency surgery is necessary:

• Removing blood from the Brain. Bleeding outside or within the brain is known as a hematoma. Surgeons must remove the excess blood that puts enough pressure on the brain to damage tissue. Surgeons will also be tasked with stopping the bleeding.
• Removing pieces of skull from the brain. Surgeons may have to remove bone from the brain if the skull is fractured in an accident.
• Opening up the skull. A window into the brain is cut out so that fluid can be drained. It also allows more room for the swollen tissue.

These and other procedures may be necessary hours after an accident. But they could become necessary weeks or months after an injury. The effects can also affect a person’s ability to live a normal life for decades.

Any settlement money an insurance company provides must be enough to cover the patient for as long as necessary, even if that’s throughout a lifetime.

Finding Support for Brain Injury Victims in Turlock

Your Maison Law attorney forms a complete list of every hardship you or a family member will endure during recovery. You don’t want to leave any damage off when you file your claim, because then an insurance company can ignore it.

These are just a few of the factors that will be used to determine the amount of your head injury insurance settlement check:

• Totals on medical bills.
• Rehabilitation costs.
• Estimates on the costs of life with a permanent disability stemming from a brain injury. This can include home care, assisted living costs, and occupational and physical therapy expenses. Help in finding a new career.
• Travel costs to medical appointments to see your doctors and out-of-area specialists while you are unable to drive.
• The pain and emotional anguish you’ve suffered after a brain injury.
• Loss of enjoyment of life.
• Lost income from work. Including estimates on the lifetime of support needed if a brain injury patient can never return to work.
• Support for families of victims. Families who must care for a loved one who is left physically disabled by a brain injury must demand support from at-fault individuals or companies. A family that lost a loved one to the effects of a head injury could also seek wrongful death benefits from those who were to blame.

Contact a Turlock Brain and Head Injury Lawyer

Maison Law of Turlock offers a free consultation to victims and their families after accidents anywhere in Stanislaus County. It’s an easy, no-risk way to determine just what you’ll need in support to treat and manage a head injury. Reach out to a Turlock Brain Injury Lawyer to schedule a confidential consultation.

There’s no obligation, but if you feel Maison Law can help you earn more in a head injury settlement, you won’t need any money upfront. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement money you receive.