Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer in Atlanta
Did You Suffer a TBI After an Accident in Georgia? Call Our Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer in Atlanta for Help
There are many different types of personal injuries that may be caused by an accident. One of the most significant, catastrophic, and often life-changing is a traumatic brain injury. Also known as a TBI, traumatic brain injuries can be caused by many different types of accidents in Georgia. Although most people may assume that motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of TBIs, the truth is that falls are the top cause. However, there are many other common causes of TBIs, with the majority of those being due to the reckless, careless, or outright negligent conduct of another person or entity. If you or a loved one suffered any type of serious or life-changing personal injury, especially a brain injury, call our experienced traumatic brain injury lawyer in Atlanta for help.
Here at Prieto Injury Law, PC, our skilled personal injury law firm can help you and your family recover compensation for serious, catastrophic, and disabling injuries like a TBI. Even where liability for your TBI may be clear, unfortunately far too many insurance adjusters or defense lawyers will not fairly compensate victims and their families. Fight back with our experienced traumatic brain injury lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, who will protect your rights to compensation for medical bills, lost wages, future lost earnings, and for your conscious pain and suffering. To learn more about your rights in either Florida or Georgia, especially in Peachtree City, Fayetteville, Newnan, Riverdale, the surrounding Atlanta area, or anywhere else in either state, call our bodily injury law firm today to schedule a FREE consultation with our legal team.
Causes of Brain Injuries from Personal Injuries
There are many common causes of brain injuries in Georgia. Most of these accidents are entirely preventable, but unfortunately end up causing permanent and life-changing injuries to innocent people. This, in turn, needlessly affects them and their families – all due to careless or reckless conduct.
Some of the most common causes of TBIs that our experienced traumatic brain injury lawyers in Atlanta can help recover compensation for victims and their families include the following:
- Car accidents
- Slip and falls
- Trucking accidents
- Trip and falls
- Nursing home abuse, neglect, or negligence
- Bicycle accidents
- Motorcycle crashes
- Bus collisions
- Dog bites or animal attacks
- Construction accidents
- Workplace accidents
- Assault and battery, including those caused by negligent security at a hotel, motel, or another type of venue, and
- Other types of negligence accidents or incidents that our experienced brain injury lawyers in Atlanta can handle for you.
What is a Traumatic Brain Injury?
Also known as brain injuries or TBIs, a traumatic brain injury is defined as an acute injury to the brain, often caused by a blow, shock, bump, strike, jolt, or penetrating injury to the head. Since acute injuries are sudden injuries, they are often caused by trauma. However, it is very important to realize that some types of TBIs can be caused without any direct impact to the head, such as due to violent whiplash in a rear-end accident.
Generally, TBIs are classified as either one of two types:
- Open Head TBIs or Penetrating TBIs – this type of TBI is caused when the skull is penetrated and brain tissue is directly struck. These are very serious types of TBIs, often leading to permanent and disabling personal injuries. Understandably, these are medical emergencies with a high-risk of wrongful death as well. A common example is when a door jam, debris, windshield impact, or another type of direct strike to the head occurs in a car accident. Another cause is when a person falls down stairs and strikes his or her head on a wall or edge of a stair.
- Closed Head TBIs or Non-Penetrating TBIs – unlike the first type, a closed head TBI occurs when the brain suffers an injury but the skull is not broken, pierced, punctured, or otherwise compromised. These types of TBIs can be caused in a myriad of ways, including by external forces like in a car accident or slip and fall. However, this type of brain injury can also be caused by anoxic (total lack of oxygen) or hypoxic (partial deprivation of oxygen) injuries, such as due to nursing home negligence, medical malpractice, or even workplace accidents (i.e., mechanical asphyxiation).
Types of TBIs from Personal Injury Accidents
All traumatic brain injuries are serious and potentially life-threatening. Although there are many different types of traumatic brain injuries, the most commonly caused types of TBIs from a personal injury accident include the following:
Concussions
One of the most common types of head injuries is a concussion. Although most people assume that concussions are not serious, largely due to the way that professional sports have handled them, concussions are a very serious and potentially disabling or fatal type of TBI. A concussion is defined as a “shock” to the head and the brain, often resulting in physical or chemical changes to the brain tissue.
Generally, concussions are rated based on the severity as either mild, moderate, or severe. However, even a mild concussion is a very serious TBI, and can result in permanent and long-lasting damage to a victim’s cognitive functions. Even if you suffered a concussion and have no follow-up treatment, there may be long-term ramifications and risks associated with this type of injury that an experienced traumatic brain injury lawyer in Atlanta should review with you and a medical expert.
- Funeral costs
- Burial expenses
- Medical bills, and
- Other necessary expenses incurred as a result of the injury and the death of the decedent that a wrongful death lawyer in Atlanta could recover for you.
Diffuse Axonal Injury
Also known as DAIs, a diffuse axonal TBI is a type of brain injury that is caused when tissue rips, shreds, tears, or is otherwise physically injured. As a result, a diffuse axonal injury is a very serious and almost always disabling or debilitating brain injury. Many times, the recovery from a DAI is slow and marginal, typically causing a permanent injury requiring a victim to hire at-home nursing care or treatment. In very serious cases, a victim may need to reside in a brain injury facility. But even in instances where a victim has a particularly minor DAI, victims and their families often have regular medical appointments, monitoring, medication, treatment, and other care-associated costs.
Coup-Contrecoup Injury
Since the brain is suspended in fluid inside of the skull, it can be affected by the force of an impact. When there is a particularly violent impact, such as a trucking accident, the brain can slide violently back-and-forth in a whiplash motion. When this happens, the brain can suffer impact injuries to the front and back of it, resulting in physical damage, chemical changes, and life-threatening swelling. This is known as a coup-contrecoup TBI, and it can occur even when there is no direct impact to the head.
Other Types of TBIs
There are many other types of TBIs which could occur in a Georgia car accident, slip and fall, dog bite, truck wreck, or another type of personal injury incident. Some of the other common types of TBIs that our brain injury lawyer in Atlanta could handle for you and your family include the following:
- Hematomas
- Brain bleeds
- Penetrating brain injuries or bleeding
- Skull fractures
- Blunt head trauma to the head and brain
- Medication overdoses
- Lack of oxygen (anoxic) or decreased/insufficient oxygen (hypoxic) injuries (including birth injuries)
- Impact-related injuries to specific areas of the brain
- Post-concussion syndrome
- Second-concussion syndrome
- Traumatic epilepsy
- Motor-related impairments due to brain injuries, and
- Any other damage to the brain that is caused by trauma in an accident that our bodily injury law firm can handle for you.
Why Our TBI Law Firm is Different
Although all personal injury cases are more complicated than cases in other areas of law, traumatic brain injury cases are some of the most complicated. They are also some of the most hotly contested cases by defendants and insurance carriers. As a result, victims and their families cannot hire just any lawyer – they need to hire an experienced and knowledgeable traumatic brain injury lawyer in Atlanta like ours.
Our legal team knows both the law and the complicated medicine involving brain injury cases, having both the experience and the resources to prove liability and support your damages claim in court. We have a proven track record of handling cases involving medically-complicated personal injury cases, including head injury or brain injury cases, and we have developed a network of leading experts in our area to discuss cases with or hire to testify in your case.
Unlike other personal injury law firms, Prieto Injury Law, PC handles serious or catastrophic personal injury cases in-house. That means your serious or catastrophic injury case is handled by the lawyer and legal team you met with during your initial consultation, in your community, and where you can put a name to a face. This is important because, with catastrophic and life-changing injuries like a TBI, you deserve personalized and dedicated service. Let our traumatic brain injury lawyer in Atlanta be your experienced and compassionate choice for representation.
Call Our Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer in Atlanta for Help With Your Case
If you or a loved one were seriously injured in any type of personal injury action and suffered any type of head injury or brain injury, call Prieto Injury Law, PC for help. We offer FREE consultation and case evaluations for victims and their families, with no obligation to sign up with our law firm after a consultation. But if you do choose our law firm and if we accept your case, there are no upfront fees or costs until we recover compensation for you. That means we have a no win, no fee guarantee. To learn more about your rights and how we can handle your traumatic brain injury or TBI case, call us today by dialing 678-961-0253 or by sending us a confidential message here.
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