Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are among the most severe types of injuries someone can sustain. These injuries can drastically alter the course of one's life. At our Kansas law firm in Wichita and Garden City, our team of experienced, traumatic brain injury lawyers understand the pain, confusion, and trauma that victims and their families face. If your loved one has suffered a concussion, head injury or brain injury due to negligence or an accident, you need an attorney with a track record of success in such cases who stays in touch with constant contact.

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are among the most severe types of injuries someone can sustain. These injuries can drastically alter the course of one's life. At our Kansas law firm in Wichita and Garden City, our team of experienced brain injury lawyers understand the pain, confusion, and trauma that victims and their families face. If your loved one has suffered a concussion, head injury or brain injury due to negligence or an accident, you need an attorney with a track record of success in such cases who stays in touch with constant contact.

Whether you need a personal injury attorney in Wichita, Garden City or Kansas City and have received medical attention for a head injury, concussion or TBI, you need traumatic brain injury attorneys who understand the needs of a brain injury victim from a car accident causing catastrophic injuries. We can send you to the best health care provider for your concussion and head injury. Only a personal injury lawyer that has studied how brain injuries occur from medical and neuropsychological textbooks will be able to understand your type of brain injury.

A common type of brain injury from a car accident, truck accident or motorcycle accident is where the trauma causes TBI from microscopic damage to parts of the brain and is called an axonal injury. This type of brain injury happens when the brain shifts upon impact, smashing into the side of the skull and tears or shears the nerve fibers which are called axons.

TBI can be caused from a rear end whiplash or side impact that your family physician says is just soft tissue. You do not have to have penetrating injuries to the brain to suffer TBI. Sometimes, no bleeding is seen on CT, X-ray or MRI and the healthcare provider tells you that you are fine. Doctors and emergency rooms fail to diagnose TBI because insurance companies will not pay for more sophisticated types of brain scans.

If you have brain injury symptoms following a vehicle accident, you need the best legal representation you can find. Brain injury attorneys investigate the injuries to your brain with special types of X-ray devices like PET scans and DTIs. These medical specialists use medical scans that can detect a TBI when an ordinary CT scan or MRI cannot find the injury. It studies damage to a blood vessel or group of blood vessels in the brain. These scans help prove that you have damage to brain cells.

• Headache
• Dizziness
• Vomiting
• Mood swings
• Hostility
• Combativeness
• Loss of short-term memory
• Loss of long-term memory
• Loss of sensation
• Loss of smell
• Loss of taste
• Problems with speech and language deficits
• Fatigue and feeling overly tired
• Light sensitivity
• Increased sensitivity to sound
• Blurred vision or loss of vision
• Ringing in the ears
• Feeling sad or depressed
• Problems with sleeping too much or not sleeping enough
• Loss of coordination and motor skills
• Loss of cognitive functions

Victims of brain injuries suffer from many different types of problems including thinking problems, loss of balance, memory loss, inability to do ordinary math and, in many circumstances, will cause the brain injury victim to become angry and combative with outbursts of rage. Every aspect of life and their everyday life has changed for the worse. The entire life of a head injury victim and their family is altered forever. A bad TBI will cause different parts of the brain to cause death. Even a mild brain injury can become a traumatic brain injury case.

There's a variety of symptoms tied to brain injuries. From headaches, memory loss, and vision issues, to mood swings, anger, and depression, these symptoms can range in severity. In some cases, individuals may experience confusion, a loss of consciousness, or even coma. TBIs can be classified as mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the symptoms and their impact on a person's daily life.

Rehabilitation, therapy, and ongoing care are often necessary for recovery. The associated bills, loss of wages, and other expenses can be overwhelming for victims and their families. Furthermore, the emotional and psychological toll, such as changes in behavior, personality shifts, and anxiety, can be devastating.

Incident Rate of Closed Head Injuries and Traumatic Brain Injury

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) say that in 1990 alone there were 75,000 fatalities and 1,975,000 injury victims who required medical attention for a head injury and 366,000 of those people required hospitalization for their closed head injury or TBI. These injuries include frontal lobe injuries to the brain that cause hundreds of thousands of injury-related deaths. People in accidents who do not die usually suffer from a decrease in their cognitive abilities to think and reason.

When a car or truck accident victim dies, the survivors can bring a claim for wrongful death damages. A head injury lawyer will get the medical records of the person to prove that they suffered conscious pain and suffering prior to death. Brain injury litigation and a head injury lawsuit can be expensive to bring. Our team of attorneys can provide constant contact with your family to help you get the maximum recovery to care for yourself and your family after your loved one dies.

Do Doctors Always Spot Brain Injuries?

No, sometimes doctors miss them. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) did a study in 2018 on the comparison of emergency departments treating patients after an accident and found that Emergency Room physicians had a routine failure to spot or diagnose cases of mild TBI. This study found that 56% of emergency room records failed to note the mild TBI following a car accident or other accidents causing head injury.

Our team of attorneys can recognize when a car or truck accident victim has moderate brain damage or a mild TBI following a vehicle crash. Our legal counsel will speak to you in a no obligation consultation with an experienced attorney. If we take your case on, we never charge a fee unless we win and it is on a contingency fee basis for a percentage of what we win for you. Mild TBI cases have complex issues which involve legal issues that should only be handled by experienced brain injury attorneys.

Yes, you can. You can get financial compensation for medical bills and your permanent disabilities following your accident. We can get compensation for your medical care and long-term medical treatment. Victims of brain injury can bring a personal injury lawsuit for their permanent brain damage and get financial compensation for long-term care, loss of quality of life, loss of enjoyment of life, economic damages and non-economic damages, as well as compensatory damages for all medical costs of treatment and other financial losses.

Brain injury litigation by a head injury lawyer in Wichita, Topeka or Kansas City will help brain injury survivors to get the maximum compensatory damages. Where the negligent parties caused your accident and are at fault parties that were acting recklessly, like drunk driving or driving while fatigued, like over the road truck drivers, we may be able to get punitive damages to punish the driver and their employer in addition to other compensatory damages.

Where wrongful death is involved, we can help you get compensation for loss of consortium, burial expenses and payment for funeral expenses and get other economic and non-economic damages for loss of companionship, loss of guidance, loss of advice and loss of services. You can recover money for the loss of income that your spouse or loved one and significant other provided to you. There are many other types of compensation for permanent brain damage victims.

Brain injury survivors require long-term care either at home or in a skilled nursing facility or nursing home. These types of brain injuries are often severe brain injuries that never get better. They require speech therapists to learn how to speak or have slurred speech and vocational therapists to help return your loss of ability to work back to being a productive member of society. Physical therapists help you regain your loss of motor skills to bring you back from a loss of independence.

Let's break it down.

Imagine you hit your head in a car or truck accident. At first, the doctor might not see the problem. But sometimes, even if there isn't a crack in your skull or clear signs, your brain can still be hurt. This kind of injury is called a traumatic brain injury, or TBI for short.

Now, not all lawyers in Wichita or Kansas City know how to help an injured party with a mild or moderate TBI. They might not know all the signs and symptoms that show someone has a closed head injury or mild TBI. A head injury lawyer from Bull Attorneys can bring a head injury lawsuit in Wichita, Kansas City, Topeka, or any city that you were injured in and live. We provide compassionate care and will bring a claim for compensation to get you the maximum compensation award allowed by law.

To prove you have a closed injury or severe brain damage, here is how we prove your case. We start by proving you were not at fault and are not the negligent party. We prove the liable parties were negligent and violated their duty of care owed to you. Then we prove you were injured due to their negligence.

The Accident Caused the Injury: You need to show that the accident caused your brain injury or made an old injury worse.

Someone Was Careless: This means someone didn't drive safely or caused an accident and violated a duty of care by violating a workplace safety law like OSHA or a motor vehicle driving law that required them to be careful and not disobey the law.

You Were Hurt: You must show that the accident hurt you in some way. This could be medical bills, emotional issues, huge costs of treatment for medical and work losses causing financial losses.

To prove your damages to the insurance company or court that you have long-term effects from brain trauma or other form of brain injury, we will usually bring a legal claim and do the following:

Hire Experts: We hire a specialist health care provider that understands brain trauma and has a multi-specialty, interdisciplinary medical team who understand the high costs of treatment to treat the physical symptoms and other severe symptoms of brain injuries that often cause a need for a lifetime of care. They can do tests and tell the insurance company or court about how the car or truck accident or fall caused cognitive disability and long-term emotional effects from the injury to your brain.

We hire life care experts who can estimate your yearly financial losses and needs for future medical treatment. These experts can be from Wichita, Kansas City, Dallas, Chicago, or other larger cities.

We may hire a neuropsychologist who can give tests to prove that you have a loss in attention span or other common brain injury symptoms. Whether you live in Wichita, Garden City or Kansas City, we can find an expert near you.

Use Special Scans: There are machines that can take pictures of your brain. These pictures can show where the brain might be hurt. One powerful machine is called a SPECT scan. It can show which parts of your brain aren't working like they should. Other scans are a functional magnetic resonance imaging study (fMRI), positive emission tomography scans (PET), near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and other sophisticated brain scans that prove mild, moderate or traumatic brain trauma.

So, if you hit your head in an accident and feel different, it's essential to get help from catastrophic injury attorneys and hire a brain injury lawyer today. Our initial consultation is always free and you can use our contact form to tell us about your case or call us for a free initial consultation.