Weaver Law Injury Attorneys are ready to fight for personal injury accident victims who suffer serious brain injuries. Weaver Law Injury Attorneys has decades of experience standing up for people who have suffered serious brain injuries due to someone’s carelessness and were left without support by insurance companies.
After an accident, don’t wait to get the help you need to recover physically and financially. For a free consultation, contact us today.
How Do I Know If I’ll Need a Lawyer After Suffering a Traumatic Brain Injury?
If you endure only a headache or minor concussion after experiencing a blow to the head, you might not need a lawyer for your accident case. Unfortunately, something like a high-speed car impact or a dangerous fall can lead to much more serious brain trauma.
If a driver or a business owner was responsible for a serious brain injury, a lawyer can help you get the most for your injury claim and protect you if those at fault try to escape blame.
When a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is involved, the medical bills are usually much higher, and this can trigger insurance companies to fight harder to get out of providing support.
Your Gainesville Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer would fully investigate what happened to you and work with your doctors to determine what level of care you might need in the future. Then your lawyer would demand the most possible for your injury so you can stop worrying about medical bills and focus on recovery.
What Is a Traumatic Brain Injury?
The Shepherd Center in Atlanta explains that Traumatic Brain Injuries are “caused by external forces that impact the brain, such as falls, motor vehicle accidents, or a sports-related blow to the head.” They are described as blows to the head that affect brain function.
The Center goes on to describe how the levels of a TBI might be minor, such as changes in consciousness, but can also be much more serious and lead to long-term unconsciousness and amnesia. Victims might also become sensitive to light, suffer mood swings, lose control of regions of their bodies, or even suffer seizures.
In the world of personal injury, victims receive TBIs due to the mistakes others make. That might be a driver on the Butler Parkway who rams another car while looking at a cellphone. That might be a business or venue owner who allows an unsecured light fixture to fall on a customer, ticket holder, or client.
Motorists, property owners, and even a city government department might be held fully accountable for all physical, emotional, and financial damages the patient suffers. However, first, victims must prove the owner or operator was negligent, and at-fault parties can make this hard to do by hiding behind teams of lawyers. It’s a good idea to have a lawyer on your side with experience taking on large insurance companies and massive corporations.
Common Causes of Brain Injuries
Brain damage can be suffered in any accident that causes a bump to the head, even a light impact. But accidents that carry more force can certainly cause more serious consequences.
A fall from a great height, or down a flight of stairs, may be enough to cause permanent damage. A major crash out on I-985 is probably the most common way people can suffer blows to the head that cause major and life-impacting injuries.
These are just a few of the types of accident cases we help TBI patients with:
- Car accidents
- Truck accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Pedestrian accidents
- Bicycle accidents
- Slip and fall accidents
- Premises liability accidents
- Construction accidents
- Agricultural and farming accidents
- Accidents in factories such as poultry processing plants
What Types of Things Should I Demand Support for After a Brain Injury?
The types of hardships addressed in a settlement check will greatly determine how well you are able to recover now and in the future.
Support for your brain trauma care in the present is important, but the care you may require in the years ahead could be critical to your future. Brain-damaged patients may require specialized physical therapy to relearn certain motor functions. They may need long-term memory care for extreme cases. Families may need home renovations and medical equipment to help care for a patient with a permanent disability.
Your Weaver Law Injury Attorneys will be creating a full list of your hardships and demanding that the insurance company see to every damage you’ve endured and will endure.
- Totals for all current medical expenses and expenses expected in the future.
- Lifelong support if a victim suffers a permanent disability associated with traumatic injuries.
- Support for physical pain victims may experience for weeks, months, or years.
- Support for emotional trauma suffered in an accident and during a difficult recovery and change in lifestyle.
- Support for travel costs for visiting doctors and surgeons in other cities. These costs can add up when patients can’t drive.
- Reimbursement for the damage to personal property.
- Replacement of the paychecks and benefits lost by patients if a brain injury keeps them from performing their job duties.
- Training for a new career if a TBI forces victims to give up their old careers.
- Wrongful death benefits for families who ultimately lose a loved one to a brain injury.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long do I have to file a Traumatic Brain Injury claim in Georgia?
In Georgia, victims usually have two years from the accident’s date to do so. This time limit is known as the statute of limitations. You shouldn’t wait to start a claim or lawsuit. Waiting can mean that valuable evidence is lost and witnesses become harder to track down. Act as soon as you can.
When do I have to have the money to pay a Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer?
You don’t need any upfront money to hire Weaver Law Injury Attorneys to represent your case. We don’t charge our clients anything for our services unless we win your case for you. Then, if the case is successful, our attorney’s fee comes directly out of the settlement money you receive.
Who Can File a Traumatic Brain Injury Personal Injury Claim?
Victims can file a personal injury claim against any party that contributed to an accident that caused a brain injury. With some brain injuries, there will be patients who will be incapacitated, at least for a time, and won’t be able to file for themselves. A close family member could file on behalf of the victim. This would usually be a spouse or a child of the victim. Victims or their family members can also consult with our lawyers for free and turn their cases over to our attorneys so they can focus on recovery.
Talk to a Gainesville Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer Now
If you’ve been seriously injured in an accident that affected the health of your brain in Gainesville, Georgia, contact Weaver Law Injury Attorneys today. We’ve been serving North Georgia for more than 20 years and continue to help brain injury victims earn more for their recoveries.
Our accident attorneys in Gainesville offer a free consultation to review your case and answer your questions. Contact us online to schedule your free and confidential consultation. There’s no obligation for this free case review.
