Brain Injuries and
Spinal Cord Injuries
Someone in America suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI) every 21 seconds, according to the Brain Injury Association of America. Brain injuries claim 50,000 lives each year and leave another 80,000 individuals permanently disabled.
If you or a loved one suffered a brain injury, please contact the Indiana brain injury lawyers at the law office of William "Bill" Hurst today for a free consultation and case evaluation. Our skilled personal injury attorneys have helped people with brain injuries and their families recover fair financial settlements for over 35 years. We would like to assist you, too.
As a member of the Indiana Brain Injury Association, we know it is extremely important to have your brain injury assessed by a medical professional who is skilled at evaluating brain injuries. Even if your doctor says your CAT scan or MRI looks good, you still may have disabilities related to your brain injury. Sometimes only psychological testing by a neuropsychologist will reveal the full extent of your injury.
A traumatic brain injury is a type of closed head injury caused by a severe impact to the head. Leading causes of TBIs are motor vehicle crashes, including car accidents, truck accidents, and motorcycle accidents, falls, sports injuries, and violence. People who survive brain injuries can suffer from cognitive, behavioral, and emotional complications. Many require long term care planning.
Anoxic brain injuries occur when the flow of oxygen to the brain is interrupted. Strokes, near-drowning incidents, medical mistakes, and birth injuries are among the causes of anoxic brain injuries.
Brain injuries can cause devastating disabilities, including paralysis and coma. Brain injuries can also cause changes in personality, irritability, movement disorders, mental confusion, and a host of other symptoms.
The effects of severe brain injuries can include significant cognitive impairment, paralysis, coma, and death. Even mild brain damage can cause major disruption in a person's thinking, memory, and personality.
Birth injuries can include both traumatic and anoxic brain injuries. The infant may develop cerebral palsy (CP) or Erb palsy (commonly misspelled: Erb's palsy) due to a brain injury sustained at birth. These birth injuries require a lifetime of care.
Indiana Spinal Cord Injury Attorneys
Two types of injuries can rightly be considered "catastrophic": brain injuries and spinal cord injuries. A catastrophic injury will have the most severe and long-term consequences, affect the most areas of life (work life, home life, recreation), and pose the most difficulties to full recovery. For an excellent resource regarding spinal cord injuries, click here. University of Michigan has one of only fourteen Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems in the United States click here for more information.
If your loved one suffered a spinal cord injury, it will be important to have the financial resources to ensure they get good medical care, extended rehabilitation services and, in the worst case, lifelong home care and adaptive equipment. If the spinal cord injury was the result of a negligently caused accident, you may be able to get financial compensation through a personal injury claim.
The personal injury attorneys at Mitchell Hurst Dick & McNelis LLC, formerly Mitchell Hurst Jacobs & Dick, LLP, are experienced at fighting for injured people. Our goal is to ensure you get the compensation you deserve so you can meet your medical expenses today and tomorrow. Learn more about how we can help you achieve financial recovery. Contact our Indianapolis law office or call us toll free at 800.636.0808.
How a Bain Injury Lawyer Can Help after a Brain Injury or Spinal Cord Injury
We have more than 35 years of experience and track record of aggressive representation in negotiations and in trial. That experience, coupled with a network of investigative professionals and medical experts, enable us to achieve very favorable settlements and verdicts for our injured clients.
We have handled a number of spinal cord injury cases in which clients suffered partial or full paralysis (paraplegia or quadriplegia) because of damage to vertebrae and nerves. We have also worked with clients who experience numbness, lack of sensation, or weakness in the limbs. Back injuries can cause ruptured discs, or bulging or herniated discs, leading to chronic back pain.
While everyone — including juries — considers paralysis to be the most debilitating spinal cord injury, we know that chronic pain from disc injury or degenerative disc disease can truly make life a nightmare. Excruciating, chronic pain causes sleep disturbance, limits mobility, makes work impossible, and can contribute to drug and alcohol abuse as the injured person looks for any means available to numb the pain.
As your brain injury lawyers we work to help you obtain an accurate diagnosis of your brain jury or spinal cord injury and the medical and rehabilitative treatment you will need, both today and throughout your life. We gather the evidence needed to demonstrate to the insurance company — or to a jury — the many ways in which your injury limits your life. These are two factors that will be considered when determining the amount of compensation you can receive.
Our goal is to ensure that you receive full and fair compensation so you have the greatest opportunity possible to regain your independence and your life after an accident.
If a family member has suffered a serious brain injury or spinal cord injury, contact the Indianapolis law office of Mitchell Hurst Dick and McNelis, LLC to schedule a free initial consultation, or call us toll free at 800.636.0808.
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