An accident that affects your brain can change your life in an instant. It might be a highway collision or a dangerous fall that leaves you with a debilitating Traumatic Brain Injury. But anyone who contributed can be held financially responsible.
CCD Law helps Spokane area victims seek support from those at fault. Contact a Spokane Personal Injury Lawyer for a free case consultation. Find out what your brain injury case is worth and how to force insurers to help you restore your life back to normal.
Do I Need a Lawyer After a Brain Injury?
If your injury is serious and someone’s negligence, or a business’s negligence, is to blame, you should consult with a lawyer. A head or brain injury is usually a very serious outcome.
These injuries come with higher medical bills, longer rehabs, and that sends lawyers and insurers looking for ways to blame your accident on you.
Your Spokane Brain Injury Attorney can investigate what happened and use the evidence to make sure those at fault can’t escape blame. You can file a claim yourself, but a lawyer usually gives you a much better chance at earning the maximum in compensation. It’s support you’ll need to rebuild your life after experiencing dangerous brain trauma.
The Dangers of Brain and Head Injuries
The brain allows you to control your body. It even performs life-saving functions like breathing automatically at times. Unfortunately, this important organ can be quite vulnerable in an accident, such as a head-on crash on I-90 or a fall down a flight of stairs.
A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can result. A TBI occurs when victims experience a blow to the head or a penetrating injury into the brain. It’s an injury that affects the function of the brain.
The Mayo Clinic reports that patients can experience profound confusion, seizures, memory issues, and even be left in a coma.
And with anything as complex as the brain, there are many other consequences that victims can experience:
- Concussions: These are generally considered a minor form of TBI caused by sudden hits to the head. They can lead to temporary blackouts, confusion, and memory issues.
- Penetrating injuries: These occur when objects penetrate the brain, causing significant damage and often requiring surgery.
- Skull fractures: Impacts or penetrations leaving a crack in the skull or a piece of skull intruding into the brain.
- Diffuse Axonal Injuries (DAI): This occurs when the brain’s nerve fibers are damaged from rapid jolts to the skull, often resulting in long-term cognitive issues.
- Brain bruises: These are bruises on the brain caused by direct impacts. They can result in bleeding, swelling, and damage to brain tissue.
- Bleeding in the brain: Also known as an intracranial hematoma. Surgery is often necessary to remove the blood and keep pressure from building under the skull. The Mayo Clinic reports that patients may even experience paralysis on the side of their bodies opposite the wound.
The Expensive Road to Recovery
Traumatic Brain Injuries often cause the need for intensive and expensive surgeries. A Craniotomy may be required. This is when surgeons remove part of the skull to enter the brain to remove blood clots and repair tissue.
Patients may need Hematoma Removal surgery to stop bleeding. A tube could be placed in the brain to help drain fluids. The skull may need reconstructive surgery afterward.
These surgeries can run into the tens of thousands of dollars. That’s before patients can even begin to rehab their injuries and try to get their lives back to normal.
They may need weeks or months of therapy to learn how to live normally again:
- Physical therapy may be needed to help patients build strength, coordination, and to learn to walk again.
- Speech and language therapy to help the brain relearn how to communicate and swallow.
- Cognitive therapy is used to help victims restore memory and focusing abilities.
- Occupational therapy assists patients in learning how to care for themselves again, relearning life skills (e.g., how to dress themselves, bathe themselves)
These are just a few of the reasons patients need to get their injury settlements right. They’ll require full support while they recovery, and especially while they can’t work and earn paychecks to pay their normal monthly bills. This support must continue for as long as necessary. Insurance companies might point to “four weeks” of financial compensation, while patients end up needing years of assistance.
Winning Total Support for TBI Patients
CCD Law collects powerful evidence to show who was really to blame for an accident. Then we file a strong claim that includes a full list of your injury hardships, and those that will continue in the years ahead.
We demand brain injury settlements that fully cover these damages and more:
- Medical expenses
- Therapy expenses
- Cost of home care or nursing home care
- Lost income or loss of future earning potential
- The pain you endured
- Emotional distress caused by a brain injury and total change in lifestyle
- Loss of quality of life
- Loss of consortium (loss of intimacy with a spouse or partner)
- Wrongful death support for families who lose a loved one to a fatal head injury
Common Causes of Brain and Head Injuries
The brain is well protected by the skull, but it’s still not enough to prevent injuries when strong impacts are involved.
Usually, they happen because of:
- Vehicle accidents, especially victims who are struck while riding bicycles or motorcycles
- Workplace accidents with faulty equipment or falls
- Falls in public places, like a stairwell in a parking garage or at an apartment complex
- Surgical errors or medical malpractice
- Assaults or domestic violence
- Collisions during recreational activities (e.g., playing school sports, at Riverfront Park, at the Spokane County Interstate Fair)
In these situations, people or business owners and operators had a legal duty to keep you safe. If their careless actions cause you to suffer a brain injury, they are liable for your support until you fully recover and pay off your medical bills and other resulting debts.
Contact a Spokane Brain Injury Lawyer
Contact us to schedule a free case consultation as soon as possible. Try to reach out within the first couple of days of your accident if you or a family member is able to. It’s an easy way to find out how to hold the negligent party accountable. We want to get the process moving so you can earn support and avoid financial troubles while you can’t work.
There’s no obligation, and your case review is completely confidential. However, if you feel we can help you secure more for your case, you won’t need any money to hire our services. CCD Law doesn’t get paid unless we win your case for you and your family. Then our fee comes out of the settlement insurers are forced to provide.