Los Angeles Brain and Head Injury Attorney
Brain injuries occur more often than most people realize from vehicle and other accidents, sports related activities and birth injuries caused by medical malpractice. Brain injuries are often undiagnosed because the injury victim appears outwardly “normal”.
THE VERCHICK LAW FIRM represents victims with various types of traumatic brain injuries including:
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and MTBI (mild TBI)
- Birth Injuries caused by Medical Malpractice
What is PTSD ?
PTSD is a serious anxiety disorder associated with a serious physical or psychological traumatic event. It is characterized by symptoms such as reliving the trauma in dreams, lack of involvement with reality, recurrent thoughts and mental images (flashbacks), insomnia, hyper-vigilance, nightmares, depression and a loss of
interest in everyday activities.
The disorder can occur immediately after the accident or even long afterward. What separates PTSD from typical anxiety or irrational fears is that it is persistent and significantly disrupts the victim’s life. If this happens frequently and over a long period of time, it is usually a case of PTSD.
What is TBI ?
Traumatic brain injuries differ from other types of injuries. Since they are subtle and victims appear outwardly just as they did before the injury, it is common for victims of obvious physical injuries (such as whiplash or fractures ) to go undiagnosed for mental impairment. Health care professionals often misunderstand and/or overlook those problems and neglect to mention potential mental problems in their patient’s medical records.
Often, TBI victims become socially isolated (even from their families), are unable to cope with their jobs, previous relationships and activities, suffer from major depression and mood disorders, lack of attention, memory and problem solving ability and even seizures.
TBI can lead to chronic health problems that require long term psychological, psychiatric and medical treatment.
The $$ recoveries in these legal cases are often in the millions.
Experienced brain injury lawyers at THE VERCHICK LAW FIRM are familiar with the subtle signs of TBI and the types and severity of accidents that cause them.
We often refer our clients whom we suspect may have TBI to the best neuro-psychologists, neuro-radiologists and other top experts, for very sophisticated and expensive testing.
Unlike most lawyers, if our clients lack medical insurance, we usually advance the costs for the TBI testing, which generates voluminous reports.
If we don’t win the TBI case, we get no legal fees or reimbursement for advanced costs.
We recommend only those TBI specialists to whom we would confidently send members of our own family.
At THE VERCHICK LAW FIRM, we are acutely aware of client suffering that can destroy relationships, job performance and overall well being . We’ve handled many seemingly simple whiplash type injury cases in which our clients also seek compensation for their “mental and emotional scars”. In many of those cases, our extensive experience, medical expertise, financial resources and contacts and relationships with some of the best experts in the psychological, psychiatric and medical communities, have enabled us to significantly increase the $$ recovery value of our client’s cases.
What are medical malpractice birth injuries?
Traumatic birth injuries to a baby usually occur from the improper use of a vacuum or forceps to deliver the baby’s head during a vaginal delivery. Commonly, birth injuries result in significant neurological head and brain damage or even death because of:
- The baby’s size in relation to the birth canal
- Obstetrician’s negligent extraction techniques and/or
- The decision not to deliver the baby by caesarian section.
Common conditions caused by birth injury malpractice, such as Erbs Palsy (EP) and Cerebral Palsy (CP), usually result in multi-million $$ legal cases against the
obstetrician, medical staff and hospitals.
If you or a loved one needs superior brain injury legal representation and is seeking aggressive big firm expertise with compassionate personal service, put your faith in THE VERCHICK LAW FIRM. Contact us NOW.
