Brain Injury

HELPING BRAIN INJURY VICTIMS IN FLORIDA

Brain injuries are responsible for around one-third of all injury-related deaths in the U.S., and the overall expense of hospital costs and lost earnings reaches $76 billion. If you or one of your family members has experienced a brain injury, you know it may affect all facets of life in terms of treatment-related costs, continuing care and the drastic shift in cognitive performance, mood and temperament that can occur.

While there is nothing that will reverse the harm done, whether you or a loved one suffer a brain injury caused by another individual or company’s negligence or misconduct, you do have protections under the law. An expert attorney at the Law firm of John Vernon Moore P.A., Florida, can help you pursue your fair compensation.

MAJOR CAUSES OF HEAD TRAUMA:

• Motor vehicle accidents,
• Falls are the most common cause, especially among kids and the elderly,
• Violence, firearm injuries or assault,
• Sports accidents and recreational accidents.

MAJOR SYMPTOMS AND CONSEQUENCES OF A BRAIN INJURY:

• Coma
• Inability to wake up
• Loss of memory
• Problems with concentration
• Difficulty communicating
• Confusion or a feeling of being disoriented
• Seizures
• Nausea
• Ringing in the ears
• Blindness
• Slurred speech or other speech issues
• Headaches
• Numbness in the extremities
• Fatigue
• Depression or anxiety
• Acute brain injury
• Acquired brain injury

Such symptoms can be serious, temporary or lifelong. A survivor of brain injury will also need to learn simple skills, undergo intensive rehabilitation treatment, and may die as a result.

An expert attorney at our law office based in Florida will determine if the other party was negligent. When anyone sustains a brain injury due to negligent acts or misconduct, then the individual or entity must be liable for compensating the patient and family members for any associated health issues. If so, the company or person who has neglected or compromised the law will have to pay for medical bills and costs, work loss, pain and suffering, mental suffering or injurious death

Our expert attorneys at the Law firm of John Vernon Moore P.A., Florida have professionally advised Injured people and their families and they have been able to overcome the physical, mental and financial difficulties of brain injury. Whether you or a loved one is involved in an accident, please feel free to contact our professional personal injury attorneys for advice.