Traumatic Brain Injury

According to the latest statistics, there are approximately two million brain injuries reported in the United States each year. More than 50,000 of these injuries are fatal, and a significant percentage of those who survive TBI suffer permanent and irreversible disabilities including paralysis, loss of motor functions, loss of reasoning and critical thinking abilities, memory loss, sensory loss (including sight and hearing), impaired speech, and emotional disabilities such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD. The most common causes of these injuries are concussions, trauma from the violent jarring of the head (often seen as a causality from car accidents), and injuries caused by lack of oxygen to the brain typically seen in drowning incidents or during childbirth, but also a result of surgicalerrors.

Are You Entitled to Recover Damages?

When a brain injury is caused by the negligence or acts of another individual, the victim may be entitled to recover damages for their past and future medical costs, pain and suffering, and loss of past and future earnings.

Families of TBI victims may also be entitled to compensation if their circumstances or lifestyle has been altered in order to care for their loved one by cause of the injury. Punitive damages aimed at admonishing the responsible party and deterring the behavior that caused the injury from being repeated in the future are also possible in many brain injury cases.

Contact Gamba Herrera Trial Lawyers

In order to effectively represent the victims of brain injuries and their families, the brain injury lawyers of Gamba Herrera Trial Lawyers take the necessary time to get to know the victims and their family members in order to gain a complete understanding of exactly how they’ve been affected. We believe that this is an essential part of the process, and aids us in the appreciation of the abilities, characteristics, and personalities of the victim before the incident took place. This permits a comparison between who the victim has become in both a mental and physical sense after the brain injury occurred. This process can involve several interviews and requests for information from past educators, doctors, employers, friends, and others who are able to help us to gain the complete picture of the victim before they suffered the injury.

Brain injury cases can be very challenging due to the difficulties in establishing the impact of emotional and cognitive changes. Therefore it is imperative for the victims and their families to seek the representation of an attorney that is experienced and qualified attorney in the field of traumatic brain injury cases. Our knowledgeable TBI lawyers are available to offer free and confidential consultations to anyone who has been affected by such an injury. Contact the attorneys of Gamba Herrera Trial Lawyers today!