Most brain and head injuries result from car accidents. Brain injuries can occur when the head has been impacted, usually by striking a fixed object such as a windshield. Sometimes, the brain undergoes a sudden acceleration and deceleration movement without showing any direct external trauma to the head. Many brain injuries are the result of tearing, bruising, twisting or bleeding of brain tissue. Damage to the brain can occur at the time of the accident or it can develop slowly over time as the tissues bleed and swell within the head.
In America alone, over one million people suffer head injuries each year. Head impact injuries, traumatic brain injuries especially, can leave the victim debilitated. While a blunt, sudden trauma to the skull is one of the most common causes of traumatic brain injury, anoxic brain injury, or prolonged lack of oxygen, can also have life threatening consequences. With traumatic brain injury, a victim's brain may swell, bruise and tear, while anoxic brain injury causes brain cells to die from lack of oxygen. Although traumatic brain injury is a more common occurrence than anoxic brain injury, both injuries are very serious indeed and have very similar consequences.
We advance all costs in our brain injury cases and seek no attorney fees unless we are able to obtain a recovery on your behalf.
Each of our clients benefit from the reputation we have earned for being extremely well-prepared. Our personal injury attorneys prepare every stage of every case, as if it were eventually going to trial in front of a jury. Because insurance companies are aware of the excellent quality of our work, our track record of success, and our willingness to go to trial, they are often willing to negotiate fairly with us and settle these cases on reasonable terms.
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