When you break a bone, you know you’ve broken a bone and are likely to need a cast. When you cut open your leg, you know that some stitches are bound to be required. When you suffer a brain injury, it’s not so easy to make the call as to what should happen. This is something that experienced Texas injury attorneys know well.
For one thing, brain injury can be inflicted in a lot of different ways. Taking a hard hit to the head is perhaps the most common way brain injuries are suffered. But it could happen, too, if your cranium just gets wrenched around suddenly. Brain injury could also be caused by disease or if something goes wrong during a medical procedure.
The effects of brain injuries can vary as much as the means by which they are caused. A victim of mild injury might get by with just a headache. Go up the scale and the effects become more debilitating — difficulty remembering or concentrating, loss of the ability to do common everyday tasks or a complete loss of body functions. The potential for behavioral changes can’t be ignored, either.
Regardless of how it happens or the nature of the wound, brain injury caused by the negligence of another is not something one simply has to deal with. Victims have a right to seek compensation for their damages and the support they need to resume the greatest quality of life possible.
Any claim for recovery that might be possible is going to depend on the specific elements of your case. If your brain injury was the result of a car crash, a slip and fall on someone’s unsafe property or perhaps an intentional assault against you, a personal injury claim might be viable. If it results from some shortcoming in delivering medical care, malpractice might be claimed.
And it’s not just the life of the victim that is disrupted by brain injury. It affects everyone with whom that person has a relationship. With so much at stake, consulting an attorney to learn what legal options exist is not only justified, it’s reasonable.
Source: FindLaw, “Brain Injury Lawsuit FAQs,” accessed Oct. 8, 2015
