A traumatic brain injury caused by someone else's negligence may entitle you to compensation for your care, your lost income, and the lasting toll on your life. Our attorneys can start reviewing what happened as soon as you call. The full impact of a brain injury is often hard to predict early on, which is exactly why a rushed insurance settlement rarely accounts for it.
At Weaver Law Injury Attorneys, our attorneys represent brain injury survivors throughout Hall County, and we can begin reviewing what happened to you as soon as you call.
Whether a car wreck, a fall, or a workplace incident caused your injury, our Murrayville traumatic brain injury lawyers can explain what your claim may be worth and how Georgia law applies. Call 770-415-5555 now for a free case review before you sign anything an insurance company sends you.
Table of contents
- What Causes a Traumatic Brain Injury in a Personal Injury Accident?
- How a Traumatic Brain Injury Affects Your Life Long After the Accident
- Who Can Be Held Liable for Your Traumatic Brain Injury?
- How Do Insurance Companies Try to Minimize or Deny Brain Injury Claims?
- What Compensation Can You Recover for a Traumatic Brain Injury?
- The Network of Professionals We Use to Value Your Brain Injury Claim
- How Long Do You Have to File a Traumatic Brain Injury Claim in Georgia?
- Frequently Asked Questions About Traumatic Brain Injury Claims
- Let Weaver Law Injury Attorneys Handle Your Murrayville Traumatic Brain Injury Claim
What Causes a Traumatic Brain Injury in a Personal Injury Accident?
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) happens when a sudden jolt, blow, or penetrating injury disrupts normal brain function. The cause does not have to involve direct contact with the head to result in serious damage.
Specifically, the sudden back-and-forth motion in a rear-end collision can injure the brain even when the head never strikes anything inside the vehicle. Our personal injury attorneys see this pattern often in claims involving otherwise minor-looking crashes.
Several types of incidents account for most of the brain injury claims our Murrayville traumatic brain injury lawyers handle:
- Car and truck collisions
- Motorcycle crashes
- Falls at a business or apartment complex
- Pedestrian and bicycle accidents
- Workplace incidents involving falling objects or machinery
- Sports and recreational injuries on someone else's property
The force involved in a crash does not need to be dramatic to cause lasting harm. Insurance adjusters often use a low-speed impact or minimal vehicle damage to argue that a brain injury could not have occurred.
Even a low-speed collision can support a serious injury claim when the bumpers show barely any damage, and our firm has seen adjusters use photos of an intact vehicle to deny a legitimate claim.
Call for a free case review. Our Murrayville traumatic brain injury lawyers speak with you about what happened, even if the collision seemed minor at the time.
How a Traumatic Brain Injury Affects Your Life Long After the Accident
A traumatic brain injury can affect a person long after the initial hospital stay, and its full impact is often not clear right away. Because those effects can keep unfolding for months, an early settlement offer may fall far short of what a claim is actually worth.
The long-term impact we see most often in these personal injury claims touches nearly every part of daily life:
- Returning to a previous job, or working at all
- Keeping up with school, finances, or daily responsibilities
- Relationships and family roles
- Independence and the need for ongoing help
- Overall quality of life
Family members often notice these changes before the injured person does, since a brain injury can affect self-awareness along with memory and mood. Our Murrayville traumatic brain injury lawyer team documents these shifts through medical records and statements from people who know you well.
A single doctor's note rarely captures the full picture, which is why our attorneys gather input from multiple providers over time rather than relying on one early evaluation.
Find out how a long-term brain injury claim gets valued with a free consultation. No pressure and no obligation.
Who Can Be Held Liable for Your Traumatic Brain Injury?
Liability depends on who caused the crash, fall, or incident that led to your injury, and more than one party can share that responsibility. Our team investigates every angle before deciding what caused it.
Georgia follows a modified comparative negligence rule that can reduce your recovery. Under the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (O.C.G.A.), O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33 allows you to recover damages if your own fault stays below 50%.
However, your compensation is reduced by whatever percentage applies to you. A TBI claim can name more than one liable party, including the following:
- A driver who caused a collision through negligence
- A property owner who failed to fix a known hazard
- An employer, if the incident happened on the job
- A product manufacturer, in cases involving defective safety equipment
- A government entity responsible for a dangerous road or public space
Naming every liable party matters because a brain injury often requires more coverage than a single insurance policy provides. A driver's minimum policy limits, for example, rarely cover the lifetime cost of severe cognitive impairment.
Speak with our TBI attorneys in Murrayville about who may be responsible for your injury. Consultations cost nothing.
How Do Insurance Companies Try to Minimize or Deny Brain Injury Claims?
Insurance companies treat brain injury claims differently from more visible injuries, because the harm is not always obvious to an outside observer. Adjusters frequently use that to their advantage.
One reason adjusters push for an early settlement is timing. Once you sign a release, you generally cannot reopen your claim, even if the full impact of your injury emerges months later.
Some adjusters argue that if an injury is not obvious on a routine test, it must not be serious. That argument does not hold up, and insurers rely on it to reduce what they pay. We do not let a claim be measured by what an adjuster chooses to overlook.
If your own insurer refuses to pay a valid claim under your uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage without a reasonable basis, Georgia's bad faith law, O.C.G.A. § 33-4-6, allows you to pursue additional penalties and attorney's fees beyond the underlying claim.
Our attorneys push back with thorough documentation and opinions from the qualified professionals who can explain your injury and its effects. A detailed record built over time carries far more weight than a single early report.
Get answers today about the tactics an insurance company may be using on your claim. Our Murrayville traumatic brain injury lawyer team takes over all insurance communications immediately upon retainer.
What Compensation Can You Recover for a Traumatic Brain Injury?
A traumatic brain injury claim can include the costs you have already paid and losses that continue well into the future. Our attorneys calculate the full value of a personal injury claim rather than accepting an early number.
Step 1 involves totaling your current medical bills and lost income. Step 2 involves projecting future costs, since brain injuries often require care that extends years beyond the initial treatment. Depending on the severity of your injury, a claim may account for:
- Emergency care and hospital stays
- Cognitive and physical rehabilitation
- Lost wages and reduced earning capacity
- In-home care or assistance with daily tasks
- Pain, suffering, and loss of enjoyment of life
A brain injury claim often requires more than a spreadsheet of bills, since some of the most significant losses have no fixed price tag attached to them.
Life care costs deserve particular attention in severe cases, since a brain injury can mean decades of ongoing therapy, medication, or personal care assistance that a first settlement offer rarely accounts for.
Get clear answers to your questions. Call our attorneys to talk about what your TBI may be worth.
The Network of Professionals We Use to Value Your Brain Injury Claim
A traumatic brain injury claim rarely rests on medical records alone, since insurance companies routinely dispute how an injury will affect your future. Our lawyers build claims around qualified professionals who can explain that impact clearly.
Georgia law sets a specific standard for which specialized witnesses a court will allow to testify. Under O.C.G.A. § 24-7-702, a witness's opinion must rest on sufficient facts, reliable methods, and a proper application of those methods to your case.
Our Murrayville TBI lawyers work with several types of professionals who help establish the full scope of a brain injury claim:
- Neurologists and neuropsychologists
- Vocational rehabilitation specialists
- Life care planners
- Economists who calculate lost future earnings
- Occupational therapists
These professionals help translate a diagnosis into a dollar figure a jury or insurance adjuster can understand. Our firm coordinates this evidence early, since building a credible claim takes time.
Never accept the first settlement offer. Talk with our attorneys about how a network of qualified professionals can strengthen your claim.
How Long Do You Have to File a Traumatic Brain Injury Claim in Georgia?
Georgia sets a firm deadline for filing a brain injury lawsuit, and missing it generally ends your right to recover money. Promptly acting also allows our team time to gather important evidence while it is still available.
Under O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33, most traumatic brain injury claims in Georgia must be filed within two years of the date of the incident. That two-year deadline applies whether your case resolves through settlement negotiations or proceeds to trial.
A claim against a government entity, such as a city or county responsible for a dangerous road, involves a separate and much shorter notice requirement, sometimes due in as little as six months. Contact our attorneys right away if a public entity may be responsible.
Call our attorneys well before either deadline arrives, since brain injury claims often take longer to fully evaluate than other injury cases.
Frequently Asked Questions About Traumatic Brain Injury Claims
Yes. Georgia law recognizes that some brain injuries take time to become apparent, and a delayed diagnosis does not automatically bar your claim. Our attorneys work with your medical providers to connect the delayed diagnosis back to the original incident. A mild diagnosis on a medical chart does not always mean mild consequences in daily life. Some of the most disputed claims involve a mild diagnosis paired with lasting cognitive or emotional symptoms. Our attorneys build these claims around documented, ongoing effects rather than the initial diagnosis label alone. Memory loss surrounding the event itself is common with brain injuries and does not prevent you from pursuing a claim. Our Murrayville traumatic brain injury lawyers rely on police reports, witness accounts, and physical evidence to reconstruct what happened on your behalf. Many clients continue working in some capacity while their claim moves forward, and doing so does not weaken your case. Our attorneys document any reduced hours, accommodations, or performance changes tied to your injury as part of your claim. Our attorneys work on a contingency basis. That means that you pay nothing upfront and owe nothing unless we recover money for you. A free consultation carries no obligation to move forward. Get answers about your specific brain injury case from our attorneys.Can I File a Claim if My Brain Injury Was Not Diagnosed Until Weeks After the Accident?
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Let Weaver Law Injury Attorneys Handle Your Murrayville Traumatic Brain Injury Claim
Some of our Murrayville traumatic brain injury lawyers have called North Georgia home for more than 40 years, and that depth of community ties shapes how our firm handles a brain injury claim from the first phone call.
We are proud to maintain more than 700 verified Google reviews and a 4.9-star rating across our three locations. We let our clients' voices speak for themselves:
"I had the best experience dealing with Weaver Law firm. They kept me updated on my case and informed me of what was going on and explained extremely well if I didn't understand something. They also got me more than I was expecting to receive." C.B.
Results may vary. Prior case outcomes do not guarantee similar results.
However, Weaver Law Injury Attorneys has recovered substantial verdicts and settlements for clients across Georgia, with over $175 million secured through negotiation and, when necessary, trial.
Call Weaver Law Injury Attorneys at 770-415-5555 today, and let our Murrayville traumatic brain injury lawyers start building the claim your recovery actually requires. Bilingual staff is available for interpretation in English and Spanish throughout every stage of your case.