Cases involving a traumatic brain injury are very complicated. Due to the nature of a brain injury, it is difficult to diagnose a brain injury and to predict future losses. The symptoms of a brain injury may take years to develop, long after your case has closed. Proving a brain injury to a judge and a jury requires an experienced attorney with the aid of a qualified medical professional.

The most common types of damages in a traumatic brain injury case are:

• Loss of wages and earning potential: many people don’t know that you can be compensated for potential lost wages in addition to your current lost wages due to an accident. Determining the compensation you deserve for lost wages requires an attorney with intimate knowledge of traumatic brain injury cases.
• Loss of quality of life: gaining back your quality of life following a traumatic brain injury can be impossible. As such, you may be entitled to damages for losing your quality of life due to a traumatic brain injury. These damages are also some of the hardest to collect due to the difficulty of placing a value on a quality of life.
• Costs for medical care: medical costs include any costs related to your brain injury that you have incurred up until the trial and any future medical costs you may incur. Predicting future medical costs can be difficult, especially in complex cases where a prognosis is not certain.
• Protracted care costs: in addition to medical costs, you may be entitled to damages related to any time and money spent on the brain injury patient by friends and family.
• Pain and suffering: similar to loss of quality of life, a brain injury patient is often times entitled to damages dues to their pain and suffering. These compensatory damages are difficult to calculate because it is impossible to put a value on someone’s pain. These damages are decided upon by the jury and we will make sure that your pain and suffering is compensated for.

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, please contact us today.