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Virginia/Carolina Personal Injury Lawyers: Traumatic Brain Injuries/Closed Head Injuries/Concussions VA WV NC SC

Due to the myriad functions of the human brain, predicting the effects of a brain or closed head injury is almost impossible. Two people could have an almost identical injury to the exact same area of the brain or head and have it affect them in two completely different ways. Our law firm, with co-counsel, obtained the largest traumatic brain injury verdict in the United States, including Virginia, in October 2000:  46 Million Dollars, and with interest 60 Million dollars.  Brain damage can have effects on the victim that aren’t immediately obvious, so it is crtical to have an injury lawyer that has the experience of working with doctors and experts that understand brain damage/brain injury cases. Memory loss or behavioral and impulse control issues are both examples of hidden damage. Because of this lack of visibility, insurance companies or liable parties will often claim that there is no brain damage at all.

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At Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton, we view things differently. We routinely confer with some of the foremost medical experts in the country and use state of the art presentation technology to make the damage as clear as possible. We also make it a point to emphasize how these injuries have not only affected the victim, but the victim’s family and loved ones as well. A brain injury can leave the victim with concerns that go far beyond immediate medical bills, and we will certainly address these concerns.

Our techniques and experience in this specialized area of injury law have served our clients well over the years. Several years ago, our firm and co-counsel obtained what was then the largest verdict in Virginia's history for a victim of a brain injury, and in doing so we brought security, stability and peace of mind to a man that would have faced a grim future if left to the devices and whims of the careless defendant.

If you or a loved one were involved in an accident that resulted in a traumatic brain/closed head injury, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton can provide the experience and resolve that you will need.

Library for Virginia/Carolina Personal Injury Lawyers: Traumatic Brain Injuries/Closed Head Injuries/Concussions VA WV NC SC:

  • Sports Injuries Resulting in Head Trauma Where Responsible Parties Are At Fault   
    Description: Obviously, not all sports injuries are anybody’s fault. We are all aware that there are dangers in children’s athletics which a personal injury lawyer can’t do anything to prevent. However, there are numerous situations where someone has in fact been negligent and done something wrong that results in a child suffering a brain injury on the athletic fields. When I have my three kids play lacrosse in the Hampton Roads Lacrosse League (HRLAX), I am putting my children in the hands of adults who are supposed to be in the position of coaches and temporary guardians to watch out for the children’s safety.
  • Virginia/Carolina Traumatic Brain Injury   
    Description: Brain injuries are some of the most misunderstood and misdiagnosed types of personal injuries cases that we see from a legal standpoint. Traumatic brain injury lawsuits can also be some of the most challenging personal injury cases to litigate
  • About Handling Virginia Beach/Norfolk, Virginia (VA) Medical Malpractice Claims   
    Description: As Virginia Beach and Norfolk, Virginia (VA) medical malpractice lawyers with over one hundred combined years of legal experience, we are familiar with the local practices that govern medical malpractice claims in Virginia Beach, Norfolk and the surrounding areas of Chesapeake, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, Virginia and beyond, as we have filed injury suits in virtually every court in the area on behalf of Virginia Beach/Norfolk medical malpractice victims. (Note: we have also represented Eastern Shore, VA and Outer Banks, North Carolina (NC) victims of medical negligence/errors.)
  • Plane crashes into NC home, pilot and passenger injuries not serious   
    Description: Plane crash in NC, plane crashes into home, pilot and passenger without serious injury
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Statistics   
    Description: Two million Americans are affected by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. With these devastating injuries come life-long mental and physical disabilities as well as financial hardship and ended careers. Read statistics about this all-too-common injury.
  • Virginia/Carolina Personal Injury Lawyers Discuss Important Details of Truck/Tractor-Trailer Or Other Accidents With Brain Injury/Closed Head Injury   
    Description: Our personal injury lawyers have extensive experience in handling brain injury/closed head injury personal injury/wrongful death cases, having handled and tried to verdict several substantial brain injury cases including a record personal injury case in Northern Virginia that resulted in a $46 million verdict in 2000. Brain injury/closed head injury is a difficult medical diagnosis, sometimes even for a doctor who specializes in brain injury. For this reason, a protocol of various tests is normally appropriate: CT scans of the brain, MRI of the brain, and neuro--psychological tests are done to evaluate whether a closed head injury may actually be a traumatic brain injury with permanent consequences, although a positive MRI or CT scan is not necessary to a diagnosis of brain/closed head injury.
  • What is TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)?   
    Description: Especially with thousands of veterans returning home injured form the Iraq War, traumatic brain injuries are increasingly common in the United State. But what exactly is TBI, and how is it caused and treated?
  • Head injury: forgotten trauma   
    Description: As a Norfolk, Virginia (VA) attorney working on personal injury and wrongful death cases, I am most astonished that traumatic brain injury (TBI) is so common in the United States and how little attention seems to be paid to the people suffering from it.
  • Spinal cord injuries are frightening.   
    Description: Paraplegia and quadriplegia can be the sad results of accidents with spinal cord injuries.
  • Hurrican Katrina: Seventeen Months and Counting   
    Description: In President Bush's latest State of the Union, he mentioned many problems that are facing the nation. But the one thing he didn't mention was New Orleans.

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Web Resources for Virginia/Carolina Personal Injury Lawyers: Traumatic Brain Injuries/Closed Head Injuries/Concussions VA WV NC SC:

  • Brain Injury Information Site

    Description: Good website on brain/closed head injury information.

  • Brain/Sprinal Cord Injury Information site

    Description: This site offers information and education about brain and spinal cord injuries. It also has a blog section, great videos, a weekly Q&A, and much more.

  • International Brain Injury Association

    Description: Provides international leadership, advancing opportunities and successes for persons with brain injury.

  • Handi-Ramp

    Description: Ramps for All Needs - Wheelchair Ramps - Material Handling Ramp Products

  • Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center

    Description: The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Paralysis Resource Center (PRC) promotes the health and well-being of people living with a spinal cord injury, mobility impairment and paralysis by providing comprehensive information, resources and referral services.

  • Caregiver.com

    Description: Today's caregiver magazine

  • Brain Injury Society

    Description: General information on acquired (Includes Traumatic)
    Brain Injury

  • Brain Injury Association of Virginia

    Description: Brain Injury Association of Virginia is the primary source of information and personal support for thousands of individuals, families and professionals living in Virginia whose lives have been touched by a life-altering, often devastating, brain injury.

  • Brain Injury Association of Maryland

    Description: Home page

  • Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation

    Description: The Christopher Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy.

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