Absolutely. This is one of those areas of law and medical science where things change all the time in our understanding of head injuries. You have to have a lawyer… CONTINUE
What if the head injury is hidden; it doesn’t manifest for a long time?
In Wisconsin, most (but not all!) injury cases have a three-year statute of limitations. If you received a mild traumatic brain injury from an accident, you are going to be… CONTINUE
What kind of damages would a brain injury patient typically get?
When we’re looking at anything that manifests itself long-term, damage needs to be evaluated. We are often looking at a loss of earnings capacity, which means a meaningful reduction in… CONTINUE
What kind of experts are used when to prove a brain injury case?
The key experts tend to be neuropsychologists or neuropsychological testing evaluators. Sometimes psychologists will address the repercussions of the brain injury, but usually there’s the neuropsychologist who provides insight into… CONTINUE
How do you prove a brain injury case?
One of the most challenging aspects of brain injury cases has to do with people who were very smart to begin with for whom a brain injury renders them slightly… CONTINUE
Does swelling in the brain qualify as mild traumatic brain injury when they have to remove part of your skull?
With any kind of an injury to the brain, there’s a risk of swelling of the brain, which then can cause additional damage to the brain. Another situation is when… CONTINUE
What happens inside the brain after a concussion?
After a concussion or a mild traumatic brain injury the best way to describe it is that your brain is bruised. It has an injury that it needs to recover… CONTINUE
Are there other types of brain injuries other than the mild traumatic brain injury or traumatic brain injury?
“Anoxic” injuries, for example, occur when the brain does not get enough oxygen or is deprived of oxygen for a while. “Anoxia” (a traumatic lack of oxygen to the brain)… CONTINUE
How do you measure how traumatic the injury was outside of what you would see in an X-ray?
When we talk about traumatic brain injuries, we talk about the physical manifestations of it. Is there something we can see on an x-ray, a CT scan or an MRI?… CONTINUE
What is a traumatic brain injury?
There are two categories used nowadays to describe brain injury: The first is “mild traumatic brain injury,” and the second, simply, “traumatic brain injury.” It is important to understand both… CONTINUE
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