How to Increase the Value of My Brain Injury Case

Brain injuries or traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are common whenever there is trauma to the head in an accident. Many people experience brain injuries as the result of an accident, a car crash, a fall, a slip and fall, a pedestrian accident or with any other type of accident where someone injures the head. The result of a head and brain injury, is that there is a high chance of permanent brain injuries, memory loss and a host of other symptoms. You will need a lawyer who is knowledgeable in these types of losses to guide you through the next steps. It will be important to get an attorney at the beginning of this type of case. Your attorney will work to help you develop a plan and strategy. They will help you to bring a lawsuit with the responsible parties paying you back, for this type of serious loss.

What Steps Should I Take Next?

If you have had a TBI, you will be reviewed by a neurosurgeon and team of doctors to determine the extent of your injuries. There are many different types of brain injuries. There is no standard type of brain injury. Your brain injury can be as mild as a concussion or as serious as a permanent brain injury. There are many different levels of brain injuries. Brain injury types include:

• Closed head injury
• Mild TBI
• Moderate TBI
• Severe TBI
• Sports-related Concussions

You will work with your doctors to determine the best course of action for your injury. You need an attorney with expertise in brain injuries and head traumas to help you along the process, to help you recover the most compensation for this type of loss.

What Doctor Should I Go To?

Generally, the first doctor that you will be referred to is the trauma doctor on call when you are taken to an emergency room at a hospital. The first 24 hours after a TBI are the most telling to these experts, who know what to look for to determine the real extent of your injuries. What the doctors want to rule out are any issues with memory, bleeding in the brain, concussions or extended loss of consciousness, rupturing of any blood vessels in the brain that will cause brain swelling, and any neuronal issues. Any of these symptoms can be fatal, and you will be reviewed in an ICU and watched 24/7 to make sure that the best care is being given to you. This will give you the best chance of a full recovery.

What Tests Do I Need to Take?

There will be many different tests that you will be required to take with a TBI. Your neurologist will need to determine the extent of your injuries, and determine from your whole-body responses how the TBI has affected you in the long and short term. You will take many tests, depending on your individual TBI, and these tests although standard will only be applied in each case as needed. You can expect to take a test for:

• Eye-Verbal-Motor response
• Brain and cervical CT scan
• MRI
• Glasgow coma score (taken at bedside)
• Skull fracture and basal skull radiological tests
• Cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP)
• Transcranial Doppler (TCD)
• Biomarker testing
• Supra-aortic and intracranial arteries CT-angiography
• Monitoring intracranial pressure
• Tests to Monitor for Seizures

You will be tested continually while at the hospital to determine if you have developed seizures, as a result of your TBI. Your doctor will test you by using several testing tools, and will determine if you have had any seizures. A seizure is a serious symptom of a TBI, and they always have to be reviewed, monitored and prevented after this type of injury.

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What Should My Doctors Look For?

Your doctors will manage your traumatic brain injury based on what they see as a result of your testing. Generally speaking, your doctors are looking to see if there is any overt damage to the brain. This may come in the form of swelling, blood in the brain area, symptoms or issues related to the TBI. The doctor and neurosurgeon will work with a team of specialists to determine how the brain injury is affecting other areas of your body. For example, if you are paralyzed on one side of your face or your body, this may be as a result of your brain injury.

An internist will work with your medical team to determine if your injuries are temporary, permanent or something in between. It is important that if there are seizures developing, that they be managed with medications as soon as possible. This is because if you start having seizures, there is a high likelihood that the seizures will further seriously and permanently injure your brain. Your doctors know what they are looking for in these areas, and are experts at making a diagnosis for you to have the best chance at a recovery in these cases.

What Should My Lawyer Be Doing to Get A Higher Settlement on My TBI Case?

There are many aspects of a settlement for a TBI. They are in most cases able to be managed, and people are able to make some type of recovery after a brain injury. Your recovery from a TBI will depend on many factors, the majority of which are going to be manifested by how well you get better after treatment, medications, therapy or any surgeries that you need to experience. Your attorney will be taking these medical documents and reviewing them, in order to keep on top of managing the best strategy to determine your best-case scenario when you bring your lawsuit on your injuries and damages. You should know that our Los Angeles case lawyers can file a lawsuit for you and represent you for your TBI case. We are experts at these types of personal injury cases, and our case attorneys in Los Angeles can sue the parties responsible for your loss. We will get you the recovery compensation that you deserve in your TBI case.

Your attorney also will consider your work situation, lost wages, lost time from taking care of your family, losses within the dynamic of the family – all of these factors need to be considered as well.

When Should I Get a Second Opinion on A TBI – Brain Injury Case

You are able to get a second opinion at any time during your TBI case. Your doctor that you have dealt with first is most likely the doctors from the hospital facility where you were taken the day or night of your loss. In many cases, this is not going to be your usual doctor network. For example, if you suffered a TBI while out and about away from your home, you will be taken by ambulance to the nearest emergency facility for treatment. That may usually result in referrals back to your in- doctor networks, but not always. If you are admitted to a hospital or urgent care facility on the day or night of your loss, you will most likely be treated in the emergency room, then taken to an ICU or other hospital section for further observation.

When you are working with an experienced attorney in Los Angeles who understands the intricacies of TBI cases, you will know that you are in good hands. We will tell you that you have a good case, and answer all questions related to “When can I sue?” that you might have. We can sue and help you get the best recovery for your case, to put you back in the situation you would have been in before the loss. You need to be reimbursed completely for your medical and other losses. This recovery compensation will also apply reimbursing you for anything that you will now need to do differently because of your loss.

Expert Advice on How to Increase the Recovery

While at the hospital, you may not realize it at the time, and you will be told, but you will already be referred to specialists and experts for your brain injury. Hospitals have on-call doctors affiliated with their facilities who are able to respond at a moment’s notice for traumatic brain injuries. They will come to see you at the facility where you are, and may also refer you to other doctors, who will also come to see you where you are located. This will happen automatically, but if you want to be referred to a specific neurosurgeon you can make that request at any time as well.

How to Get the Most Money?

There are only two ways to get the most money for a TBI. First, you need to have a case with a diagnosis of a TBI or other type of brain injury. Second, you need to hire attorneys who specialize in traumatic brain injury cases. If you do not hire a lawyer with a specialty in TBIs, you will not be putting yourself in the best position to win your case. We have attorneys who will be able to get you the recovery compensation that you deserve when you have suffered a TBI.

What Is the Highest Settlement Value – On My TBI / Brain Injury / Concussion Case?

Your settlement on your TBI case will depend on your diagnosis from your doctors. The doctors assigned to your medical case will determine as to what type of TBI you have at this time. If you have a minor concussion and someone else is at fault, you may be able to recover several thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for the case. If you have a serious TBI that results in a permanent disability, you may be looking at upwards of several hundreds of thousands of dollars or more to settle this type of case. If you are not able to ever work again, the recovery compensation value can be even higher in the millions. Keep in mind that these are only estimates, your own case will be much higher than average numbers. This is the reason it is imperative that you hire the best lawyers who can help with the management and settlement of your traumatic brain injury case.

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We are here for you, and understand that you are interested to learn everything that you can about this type of case and loss. We are able to offer you a free second opinion, even if you are currently working with another law firm. The value of a second opinion in a brain trauma case is that you will get a much better understanding of how the strategies in your case need to come together, if you are going to receive the full package of compensation that you deserve. We are able to offer you that peace of mind with a free second opinion.

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