Brandon Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer

Brain injuries have lifelong effects.

Every year, millions of Americans sustain some form of traumatic brain injury. These injuries are degenerative. Initial symptoms, such as tiredness and disorientation, may last a few hours or days. As the brain bleeding and swelling intensify, symptoms include tinnitus (ringing in the ears), mood swings, and severe headaches. Next, these victims suffer dementia-like symptoms. Furthermore, head injuries are permanent. Dead brain cells do not regenerate.

Because these injuries are lifelong, at least in most cases, the dedicated Brandon traumatic brain injury lawyers at Carman, Bevington & Finegan, P.A. work hard to obtain maximum compensation so these victims can pay medical and other expenses. This compensation also makes a bleak future a little brighter. Furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, a Brandon traumatic brain injury lawyer forces tortfeasors (negligent actors) to accept responsibility for the injuries they unintentionally, yet negligently, cause. You break it, you buy it.

Types of TBIs

“Traumatic Brain Injury” is not an injury but an umbrella term that includes a number of head injuries. Common ones include:

• PTSD: Yes, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a physical brain injury. The extreme stress of a life-threatening situation, like a car crash, triggers chemical changes inside the brain. This imbalance creates symptoms like flashbacks, anger, depression, and nightmares. Available PTSD drugs, which are generally anti-anxiety drugs, ease these symptoms but do not correct the chemical imbalance.
• mTBI: A moderate traumatic brain injury is a concussion. Individually, these injuries are not too severe, although they do make it impossible to function for several hours or days. The cumulative effect of mTBIs causes CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), a degenerative brain disease that’s usually fatal. A Brandon personal injury attorney can obtain compensation for CTE, even if prior concussions contributed to the disease.
• sTBI: Usually, trauma does not cause a severe traumatic brain injury. Extreme motion, like the motion in a car crash, causes the brain, which is about the size of a coffee mug, to violently and repeatedly slam against the insides of the skull. The multiple impacts cause brain bleeding and swelling.

After doctors finish their work, these injuries usually require extensive and expensive physical therapy. Brain injury physical therapy is unlike broken bone or any other kind of physical therapy, mostly because progress is uneven during brain injury physical therapy.

If a victim shows little progress for a few weeks or even months, the next breakthrough might occur at the next session. So, a Brandon traumatic brain injury lawyer ensures that the insurance company keeps funding PT so the victim recovers as much function as possible.

Causes of TBIs

Vehicle collisions are, by far, the most common TBI cause, mostly because these incidents combine all three primary TBI causes.

We mentioned the effects of motion above. Trauma is an issue as well. When victims slam their heads into airbag-covered steering wheels at 60mph, significant head trauma is inevitable. Furthermore, many car crash witnesses state that these collisions sound like explosions. Sudden loud noises create shock waves that disrupt brain functions.

Drivers are liable for damages in these cases if they were negligent. Negligence is basically a lack of care. Ordinary negligence is a lack of ordinary care (driving aggressively or while impaired). Negligence per se is a violation of a safety law, like the DUI law, that substantially causes injury.

Rely on a Dedicated Hillsborough County Attorney

Injury victims are entitled to substantial compensation. For a confidential consultation with an experienced personal injury lawyer in Brandon, contact Carman, Bevington & Finegan, P.A. We routinely handle matters throughout the Sunshine State.