Brentwood Brain Injury Attorneys
If you are someone who has suffered a traumatic brain injury, or the loved one of a TBI patient, you need an attorney with extensive experience handling these types of claims.
Brain injury lawsuits can be particularly challenging because of the hidden nature of the injury.
After an accident, a head injury patient may appear normal to others but suffer from a post-concussive syndrome that does not show up on an MRI or a CT scan.
Victims of “mild” traumatic brain injuries and their families know all too well that the consequences of lasting brain injuries are anything but mild. Our firm knows how to handle such cases.
Contact our brain injury attorneys today at (310) 774-0078 to discuss your case in a free consultation.
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Why Hire Our Brain Injury Lawyers in Los Angeles?
- 40+ years of experience
- Free consultations
- Hundreds of millions recovered
- Award-winning counsel
We apply a multi-pronged approach to the challenge of maximizing compensation in TBI cases. Performing a detailed investigation of the accident using seasoned investigators, accident reconstructionists, and other experts is the first step. If liability is not proven, then you are not entitled to be compensated no matter how seriously you are injured.
In addition to working with doctors, life care planners, economists, and expert witnesses to document your damage, we spend a great deal of time and energy gathering testimony from your close friends, families, co-workers, and neighbors to strengthen your claim. Time and again, our thorough, in-depth approach maximizes our clients’ recoveries.
Brain Injury Cases We Have Handled
- $2.7 million settlement – Joseph v. Lovejoy
- $2.5 million settlement – Jane Doe v. Roe Co.
- $2 million settlement – Harwood v. Custom Foods
- $2 million settlement – Doe v. Roe Manufacturing Co.
- $1.5 million settlement – Fairweather v. In N’ Out Burgers
- $1.44 million settlement – Hebb v. Temecula Unified School District
- $1 million settlement – Brownstein v. Seacrest Inc.
- $1 million settlement – Doe v. Roe GYN
- $857,806 jury verdict – Saenz v. Garcia
- $750,000 jury verdict – Beltran v. Enriquez
- $508,000 jury verdict – Vigeant v. Linens N’ Things
- Confidential settlement – Richardson v. Marathon LeTourneau
What Are the Various Types of Brain Injury?
There are several different types of brain injuries, including:
- Penetrating injury
- Diffuse axonal injury
- Concussion
- Contusion
- Coup-contrecoup injury
- Second impact syndrome
- Shaken baby syndrome
- Anoxic brain injury
- Open head injury
- Mild traumatic brain injuries
- Hypoxic brain injury
- Brain hemorrhage
- Brain stem injury
- Temporal lobe injury
- Frontal lobe injury
- Occipital lobe injury
- Post-concussive syndrome
Each type of brain injury has particular short-term and long-term consequences, but thanks to aggressive, state-of-the-art medical treatment and therapy can improve outcomes for many patients. Since 1977, our lawyers have been helping brain injury victims and their families find and gain access to needed treatment and practical assistance.
Signs of Brain Hemorrhaging
Brain hemorrhages, sometimes called cerebral hemorrhages, account for approximately 13% of strokes nationwide. The most common cause of brain hemorrhaging in individuals under 50 is blunt head trauma, which can often be associated with motor vehicle accidents or falls. Other common causes of a brain hemorrhage include high blood pressure, the rupture of a brain aneurysm, brain tumors, and liver disease.
Common symptoms and signs of a brain hemorrhage include:
- Sudden and severe headache
- Nausea and/or vomiting
- Changes in vision
- Weakness in limbs
- Loss of motor skills
- Swelling of the brain (cerebral edema)
- Loss of consciousness/coma
Unfortunately, the signs of a brain hemorrhage can often be confused with other medical issues, including other forms of brain injuries. It takes a knowledgeable, experienced medical expert to properly evaluate and treat these cases. Unfortunately, sometimes even the best medical attention cannot save a person’s life if the brain hemorrhage and associated swelling are too extensive or advanced.
Common Causes of Brain Injuries
Brain injuries and other catastrophic injuries can be caused by a wide variety of accidents, including:
- Car accidents
- Falls
- Workplace accidents
- Truck accidents
- Recreational accidents
- Sports injuries
- Medical mistakes
While the causes may vary, brain injuries do have one strikingly similar commonality: horrific side effects and changes that wreak havoc on those who have been injured. Biren Law Group understands brain injuries and can help you obtain maximum compensation for your losses.
Understanding the Severity of a Traumatic Brain Injury
In most cases, traumatic brain injuries fall into three different categories: mild, moderate, and severe. Even head injuries that are deemed as “mild” will result in serious health challenges and difficulties.
Common symptoms of a TBI may include:
- Cognitive problems such as impaired memory, lack of concentration, poor attention span, slowed learning, difficulty reasoning, and other issues.
- Emotional and behavioral problems such as depression, irritability, aggression, and other behavioral changes.
- Physical problems such as fatigue, headaches, loss of coordination, sensory loss, sleep disturbance, coma, hemorrhage, and seizures.
Seizures Caused by Brain Injuries
Brain injuries or other incidents that lead to seizures are extremely serious and can involve permanent disability or death. Other times, seizures can be more focal, less dramatic, but just as harmful or disabling. Whether your seizures are caused by a brain injury or any other issue connected to the negligence of another person, be sure to seek legal counsel right away.
What Causes Seizures?
Seizures are caused by a malfunction in the brain. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) will occasionally cause the onset of seizures similar to those of epileptics, who are born with the problem. Sometimes, the first indications of the onset of a seizure disorder are staring spells, where the person appears to temporarily zone out. These episodes can actually be focal point seizures, which can later develop into grand mal seizures. Because focal point seizures are difficult to recognize, family members should be on the lookout for this type of behavior and, if it occurs, make sure that the person’s doctor is made aware of the development.
Additionally, seizures can occur due to electric shock from defective equipment or even medical malpractice during childbirth. Seizures may develop weeks, months, or even years after the initial incident or accident.
What are the Symptoms of Seizures?
The following are common symptoms of seizures:
- Clenching of teeth
- Rapid, fluttering eye movements
- Sudden mood changes
- Muscle spasms
- Blacking out and confusion
How Seizures Can Affect a Victim’s Life
The onset of seizures can have serious consequences on a victim’s life. If you have a grand mal seizure, your doctor is required to report that fact to the Department of Motor Vehicles, and it is likely that your license will be suspended—at least until the seizures are controlled with medication. However, seizure medications can have adverse effects too, especially for women who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant.
What Options Are There For Treatment?
After a serious head injury, a patient is likely to find effective treatment, therapies, and rehabilitation in a hospital, in a rehabilitation facility, through outpatient treatment, in support groups, and in therapeutic settings. For best results, we recommend that you start your care with a doctor who specializes in your particular type of head injury.
Because these types of treatment can be extremely costly, it is urgent for brain injury victims to retain the help of a skilled brain injury lawyer in Los Angeles who can determine which legal strategies can help the victim recover compensation for such therapy and treatment processes.
What Will The Recovery Process Be Like?
Depending on the severity of your brain injury, the recovery process can be lengthy or short. In most cases, you will need rest so that your body can recover. Studies show that a majority of the recovery progress occurs within the first six months of the injury. In severe cases, it may be difficult and impossible for a person to recover completely.
As a result, the human body will find alternate ways to cope with the changes, and the person may learn other ways to compensate and become more functional. It is important to speak with a knowledgeable physician regarding your recovery process, since these processes range on a case-by-case basis.
Will Life Ever Seem Normal Again?
If you have a mild case, you may feel much better after two to three months, after five to six months or after a year. However, people who have suffered moderate or severe brain injuries, or even some who have sustained mild brain injuries, will suffer the consequences of their injuries for the rest of their life.
Nevertheless, through cognitive behavioral therapy, the victim can learn compensatory strategies so that he or she can function as well as possible given the limitations caused by the brain injury.
Don’t Wait to Get Help with Your Case
Speak with one of our Los Angeles brain injury lawyers for information on how we can help maximize damages in a TBI case. Ask about our past successes, including verdicts and settlements that have given our clients a new lease on life. Ask questions you may have regarding brain injury treatment and rehabilitation and related topics.
Our law firm is dedicated to helping people with brain injuries recover maximum financial compensation for the harm they have experienced. Since 1977, we’ve won more than half a billion dollars for our clients. If you or a loved one has suffered a brain injury, you can count on the Biren Law Group.
Discuss your case with a brain injury attorney in Brentwood by calling the Biren Law Group to schedule a free, no-obligation consultation.
