Experienced Brain Injury Lawyers

Experienced Brain Injury Lawyers

Why Do You Need an Experienced Brain Injury Lawyer?

Brain injuries require long-term, consistent care. The losses suffered by one person's injury impact their colleagues, friends, and family. The financial support you're able to secure through a settlement or verdict directly affects your health prospects and the quality of your life.

Data discussed by Harvard Medical School shows that the clinical decisions made in the first few weeks after a brain injury have a long-lasting effect on a person's recovery prospects. Steady treatment, especially in the first year after a brain injury, is vital to preserve cognitive function and regain key skills. A delay or interruption in treatment could mean the difference between regaining an independent life and requiring a residential facility.

A brain injury lawsuit can help you access the funds you need to recover. By pursuing all available avenues of compensation, you could afford a better health outcome and help ensure your family's financial security. An experienced lawyer has the skills to fully investigate your injury and hold all liable parties accountable, which allows you to access crucial funds.

The attorneys at Hodes Milman invest our full effort and resources into every case we build, leaving no stone unturned when seeking resources for our clients. Reach out to us to schedule an appointment online, or call our Irvine, California offices directly at (949) 640-8222. Let us handle the work of a lawsuit so that you can focus on healing.

How Much Is My Brain Injury Claim Worth?

The amount you may potentially secure from a brain injury lawsuit depends on two key components:

1. The damages you've suffered
2. The ability of your attorney to effectively prove those losses

Here is how these two elements can result in a successful settlement or verdict:

• Economic Damages: These are monetary losses that are often represented in documents like receipts for medical care, or pay stubs detailing the amount of wages lost if you were out of work after the accident.
  • Your lawyer gathers these documents, and uses them to determine the amounts needed for ongoing medical care or future lost wages. The attorney also investigates for other relevant losses, like the cost of travel to and from physical therapy.
• Noneconomic Damages: Pain and suffering caused by your accident could include physical injury, psychological stress, and marital or family strife.
  • Your lawyer may subpoena notes from your psychiatrist that show conditions like PTSD or depression. An attorney can also hire expert witnesses to testify on how one person's catastrophic brain injury impacts their spouse or children. This information helps describe in legally-understood terms what a loss of "quality of life" entails in your case.
• Punitive Damages: These are punishment damages that may be charged to the other party and then awarded to you by the judge. These payments are in addition to any other damages awards.
  • An experienced attorney may find proof that the person or entity that caused your injury acted recklessly or maliciously. Such evidence could result in further compensation for your family.

For the surviving family members of someone who died due to a brain injury or resulting complications, damages in a wrongful death claim can cover both economic and noneconomic losses. That means both end-of-life expenses like funeral costs, and noneconomic damages like the loss of a person's unique companionship.

How Do You Prove Traumatic Brain Injury?

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), traumatic brain injury is medically diagnosed by symptoms in the following categories:

• Thinking and learning: Difficulty in thinking clearly, speaking, writing, concentrating, or remembering
• Motor skills, hearing, and vision: Weakness in limbs, problems with balance and coordination, and changes in sensory perception (touch, sound, and visuals)
• Mood and behavior: Volatile emotions like anxiety, aggression, or depression that result in an inability to control impulses, a personality change, or attempts at self-harm

When it comes to proving a traumatic brain injury in legal negotiations or at trial, evidence may come in the form of:

• A doctor's testimony about your specific injuries and outlook
• Expert witnesses and research that can project your long-term recovery needs and calculate their cost
• Evidentiary items like x-rays or cognitive test results to provide a full understanding of the abilities lost or diminished

By hiring an attorney to represent you, you can focus your energy on healing, restoring your life after an accident, and spending precious time with your loved one. Empower a lawyer to handle negotiations on your behalf.

It is your lawyer's job to obtain and prepare the elements of proof, not yours.Contact Hodes Milman at (949) 640-8222 for full-service representation.

What Is the Average Payout for Head Injury?

There is no one number that can summarize an "average" payout for a brain or head injury. However, data compiled by Northwestern University shows:

• Treatment for traumatic brain injury patients can cost between $85,000 and $3 million over a lifetime.
• The unemployment rate is 55% higher for an adult with a brain injury two years after diagnosis, compared to the national average.
• According to estimates, roughly 53% of people experiencing homelessness are affected by a brain injury.

Without proper financial and medical support, a brain injury could drastically downgrade a person's quality of life. The sooner you have an attorney working to secure compensation, the better you're situated for a stable future.

Can I Sue for Head Injury? Contact Hodes Milman

You may be able to sue for a head injury, regardless of whether it was caused due to a car accident, unsafe premises, medical malpractice/negligence, or some other form of personal injury. If you or a loved one have suffered from a preventable head or brain injury, you have the right to pursue justice.

Our case results at Hodes Milman show proven experience, including multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts for brain injury cases like:

• $5.7 million for a pregnant woman injured during medical care
• $4.3 million for a 30-year-old man robbed of his prime
• $2.5 million for brain damage caused on an infant

When brain injury cases cross into other legal areas such as children's rights or elder abuse, we are fully prepared to handle all aspects of the case.

Reach out to Hodes Milman via our online contact form, or by calling (949) 640-8222. No matter how complex a case may seem, those are challenges we have met and overcome before on behalf of our clients. You can rest easier knowing that our lawyers will be by your side until your case is resolved.