Long Island Brain Injury Lawyer

injuries can occur when others are negligent. If you or a loved one suffered a brain injury in an accident resulting from negligence, you might be eligible to recover money damages. When it comes time to file your legal claim, you want a team of Long Island brain injury lawyers advocating for you with experience successfully settling and trying traumatic head injury cases in court.

For a free legal consultation with a brain injury lawyer serving Long Island, call 516-451-7900

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Pursuing the Compensation You Need

The knowledgeable Long Island brain injury lawyers at Rosenberg & Gluck, LLP have a strong track record of success handling Long Island brain injury cases. Recently, our team recovered over one million dollars for a construction worker who suffered a severe head injury while on the job.

Our legal team is highly familiar with the applicable New York state laws and the procedures that accident victims must follow in brain injury litigation. We can take the necessary legal steps to help you pursue the maximum compensation available in your case.

For a free case evaluation and legal consultation with a Long Island brain injury lawyer, please call us or contact us online for more information. We can assist you in both English and Spanish.

How Our Legal Team Can Help You

When it comes time to settle or litigate your brain injury case, you can be sure that the insurance company will not help you. In fact, the insurance company is your direct adversary, and they will try to save themselves as much money as possible. They do this by limiting the compensation they offer you as part of your settlement. Therefore, you need a solid legal team on your side advocating for you every step of the way.

Our legal team can help you recover the monetary compensation you deserve for your brain injury.

Specifically, we can assist with:

  • Filing a personal injury claim on your behalf, negotiating a fair settlement with the insurance company
  • Filing a lawsuit and litigating your brain injury case in court, if that becomes necessary
  • Assisting you throughout the litigation process by answering discovery interrogatories and preparing you for depositions
  • Retaining the experts required to help you prove your case
  • Answering all of your legal questions

Potential Damages for You and Your Family in a Traumatic Brain Injury Case

When accident victims can prove the legal elements of their brain injury claim, both they and their families can recover various damages. The amounts and types of damages that brain injury victims can recover depend upon multiple factors.

Those factors include:

  • The specific injury they suffered
  • The type and cost of medical treatment that they underwent
  • Whether or not they suffered a permanent brain injury in their accident

Moreover, juries and courts will consider whether the accident victim might require a future procedure or some other medical treatment and the anticipated treatment cost when awarding damages.

Brain injury victims can pursue monetary compensation for any of the following:

  • Medical treatment costs – Brain injury victims often need to undergo significant medical procedures after consulting with specialists. They can recover the costs of those procedures, medical visits, MRIs, treatment, medications, and mobility aids, such as crutches.
  • Lost wages – When accident victims suffer a brain injury, they may need to miss significant time from work to recover and attend medical appointments. When a medical provider authorizes an accident victim to be off work, they can recover lost wages for the missed time. In addition, if their brain injury prevents them from working indefinitely, they can bring a claim for loss of earning capacity.
  • Pain, suffering, and inconvenience – Brain injury victims often experience tremendous inconvenience, suffering, and pain resulting from their injuries. All these damages are compensable, both in the past and future. Past pain and suffering compensate an accident victim for everything they experienced between the date of their accident and the current time. Future pain and suffering compensate accident victims for the symptoms they will likely encounter. Many brain injury victims experience symptoms for years after their initial accident.
  • Loss of use of a body part – Some brain injury victims, especially those who also suffer spinal cord injuries and paralysis, might be unable to use a body part for the remainder of their life. They may also lose the ability to use their bowels or bladder. In those instances, the accident victim can bring a claim for loss of use, seeking monetary compensation for those disabilities.
  • Loss of life enjoyment – Traumatic head injuries can lead to a lifetime of pain and inconvenience. When that happens, accident victims might be unable to partake in recreational activities, sports, and other life events they once enjoyed. When that happens, they can bring a claim for loss of life enjoyment and recover monetary compensation.
  • Lifelong care – Some brain injury victims suffer such severe injuries that they can no longer care for themselves going forward. They may need to reside at a nursing home or assisted living facility and rely upon others to care for them and provide for their basic needs. These lifelong care costs are compensable as part of a personal injury claim.
  • Wrongful death – Some traumatic head injuries result in an accident victim’s premature death. If that happens to your loved one, you can open an estate and pursue wrongful death damages. Potential damages in a wrongful death claim or lawsuit include compensation for burial and funeral expenses, loss of the decedent’s future income, and loss of the decedent’s care, companionship, and comfort.

The experienced Long Island brain injury lawyers at Rosenberg & Gluck, LLP will do everything possible to help you recover the total monetary damages you deserve in your brain injury case—either through settlement or litigation.

What are Some Common TBI Symptoms?

Victims of serious accidents who suffer traumatic brain injuries sometimes experience debilitating symptoms that impact them for the rest of their lives. However, many of these symptoms do not manifest right away. In fact, it might take weeks, or even months, before these symptoms materialize.

Common symptoms related to traumatic head injuries include:

  • Short-term memory problems
  • Difficulty thinking
  • Painful headaches
  • Mood swings
  • Inability to concentrate
  • Fatigue
  • Irritability
  • Frustration
  • Depression
  • Nausea,
  • Seizures
  • Dizziness
  • Difficulty sleeping
  • Loss of balance
  • Visual problems

If you exhibit any of these symptoms after a severe accident, you should seek medical care right away. If you go to an urgent care center or hospital emergency room, the provider can order the necessary tests to ascertain your medical condition and make an accurate diagnosis. Moreover, the responding healthcare provider can recommend follow-up treatment that you may need to avoid long-term symptoms.

You must seek medical treatment right after your accident, preferably on the same date. If you delay seeking medical treatment, any traumatic head injury you sustained can worsen with time. Moreover, the insurance company will likely become skeptical of your injuries if you do not seek immediate treatment—or if there are significant gaps in your treatment.

While you focus your attention on recovering from your head injuries, our legal team can begin the process of gathering the necessary documents and preparing your brain injury claim. Once your treatment is complete, we can begin the claims-filing process and start advocating for your legal rights.

What Are Some Common Causes of Traumatic Head Injuries?

Traumatic head and brain injuries are prevalent in accidents where other individuals or entities are negligent. One common source of head injuries can be car accidents. The force of the impact in a car crash might cause the accident victim’s body to move around inside their vehicle, and their head might strike something in the car—such as the window, steering wheel, or headrest—causing a severe head injury.

Car accidents typically happen when drivers behave unreasonably under the circumstances, such as by speeding, tailgating, failing to use a turn signal, failing to yield the right-of-way, and violating other road rules. Car accidents also sometimes happen when drivers engage in a distracted or intoxicated vehicle operation.

When drivers behave negligently, bicycle, motorcycle, and pedestrian crashes can also occur. These accidents are even more likely to result in head injuries because accident victims’ bodies are open to their surrounding environments. Bicycle and motorcycle riders do not have an outer metal covering that surrounds them when an accident happens. If the force of impact knocks the rider to the ground, they can suffer serious head injuries, especially if they land on their head or back.

Truck accidents happen in much the same way as car crashes when truck drivers operate vehicles recklessly or carelessly. However, truck accidents can also occur when drivers and the companies that employ them fail to follow state and federal motor carrier regulations—especially concerning load limits and correctly securing the cargo.

Head and brain injuries can also happen because of defective products. Manufacturers must design their products carefully and test them before making them available for sale. When a product explodes or malfunctions in some way, it can lead to smoke inhalation or lack of proper ventilation, causing a lack of oxygen flow to the brain.

When that happens, even for a short time, a severe brain injury can result in memory disabilities and a general lack of awareness.

Serious head injuries can also result from medical negligence and malpractice. Healthcare providers owe their patients a high duty of care, and when they deviate from that duty, and an injury or illness occurs, they can be responsible. Doctors, for example, must typically follow the standard of care for a hypothetical reasonable doctor acting under the same or similar circumstances. Specialists, such as heart doctors and orthopedic surgeons, for example, must follow a national standard of care.

An improper medical diagnosis or improper treatment can lead to a stroke, heart attack, loss of mobility, or similar injury, blocking blood flow to the patient’s brain. This oxygen deprivation can cause potentially fatal complications. Moreover, a doctor or MRI technician might fail to notice a brain tumor which can lead to complications.

Brain injuries also happen when healthcare providers are negligent in the birthing and delivery processes. These injuries may occur when an umbilical cord becomes compressed or twisted, the child is in a sideways position, or the child cannot easily move through the mother’s birth canal. If the medical provider fails to recognize the need for a C-section in time, they can deprive the baby of oxygen deprivation, leading to a severe brain injury or other medical condition.

Injuries and illnesses that workers sustain on the job can also lead to brain injuries. This is especially true when workers suffer exposure to harmful chemicals, including lead solvents, pesticides, and carbon monoxide gas.

All of these chemicals can damage brain neurons, which serve as the internal hardware system for the brain. If you become involved in a workplace accident that leads to a traumatic head injury, you might be eligible to file a claim for workers’ compensation benefits. In addition, you can bring a claim or lawsuit against a responsible third-party, such as an installer or manufacturer, for damages.

How Non-Medical Situations Can Cause Traumatic Brain Injuries and Related Losses

You or a family member might have suffered a TBI. Some causes of traumatic brain injury are:

A drunk, distracted, drowsy, or reckless driver could have rear-ended your vehicle, run you off the road, or T-boned you at a busy intersection. Your child might have also suffered an injury due to negligent supervision while competing in a city-run baseball league.

What Can Cause Brain Damage; How Can It Be Caused By Negligence?

In addition to TBI, other types of brain injuries also occur that can be just as damaging. Common causes of these alternative brain injuries can include the following:

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Oxygen Deprivation From Defective Products Could Make You Eligible for Damages

When oxygen is prevented from flowing to the brain, irreversible brain damage can occur within minutes. Respiratory failure, drops in blood pressure, and lack of oxygen in the airways can cause oxygen deprivation.

Drowning, smoke inhalation, and lack of proper ventilation are also circumstances where the brain may not get sufficient oxygen and can suffer as a result. Brain damage can result in memory disabilities and a general lack of awareness for individuals who survive such situations.

Heart Attacks and Strokes Might Occur Due to Lack of Diagnosis or Treatment

Often, people who have suffered from heart attacks or strokes lose mobility in certain or all parts of the body and cause speech to become very difficult. This is because heart attacks and strokes also deprive the brain of oxygen.

These occurrences block blood flow to the brain. In a stroke, blood vessels in the brain can also hemorrhage, directly damaging the cells in that area.

Open Head Injuries Can Result in Bodily Harm

Bullet wounds, objects that penetrate the skull, or falls that crack the skull can also create severe brain damage. Brain injuries can occur due to many kinds of negligence. Your lawyer can pursue your brain injury case against the at-fault parties on Long Island.

Toxic Exposure Can Happen to Workers and Other Individuals

Harmful chemicals, such as carbon monoxide, gas, lead, solvents, and pesticides can damage neurons and create brain injury. You could sue a responsible third party, like a manufacturer or contractor, if you were exposed to toxic substances at work.

If you were exposed in your home or as a patron at a business (like a hotel), you could hold the property owner responsible. The manufacturer or installer might also be at fault.

Your Doctor Might Have Failed to Diagnose an Infection

Bacterial and viral infections can cause encephalitis, which is a severe inflammation of the brain. Meningitis is another infection caused by bacteria, viruses, cancer, various diseases, and certain drugs. Meningitis results in inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

Medical professionals should properly diagnose and treat illnesses. However, this does not always occur.

Your Doctor or MRI Technician Might Have Failed to See Your Brain Tumor

Brain tumors put pressure on areas of the brain, damaging the tissue and often causing major long-term issues. If your condition worsened because your team did not isolate and treat your cancer, you could be eligible to take action.

You could also file a wrongful death lawsuit if you lost a loved one in this (or another) circumstance. Your family could recover an award for funeral expenses, your loved one’s medical costs, the decedent’s medical costs, and more.

A Birth Injury Can Cause Brain Damage; Doctors Might Ignore Warning Signs

Any mother knows that giving birth is no small feat, and complications can easily arise. There is a risk of brain injury for the baby during delivery when:

  • Umbilical cords are twisted or compressed
  • Babies are breech or positioned sideways
  • Babies are too large to move easily through the birth canal

Doctors who fail to recognize the need to order a C-section can cause this type of birth injury, resulting in brain damage or cerebral palsy for the child being delivered. Misuse of tools like vacuum extractors or forceps might also cause brain injury.

Call an Experienced Long Island Brain Injury Lawyer Today

Long Island Neck and Back Injury Lawyer, Michael Gluck

If you suffered a brain injury in an accident or occurrence that resulted from someone else’s negligence, you are not alone. At Rosenberg & Gluck, LLP, our legal team understands the trauma, pain, suffering, and inconvenience that brain injury victims often experience. The stakes are too high with brain injuries, as they can affect you for the rest of your life. While you focus on getting the care you need, we will be by your side every step of the way and help you pursue the maximum compensation you deserve to recover damages that stem from your brain injury.

For a free case evaluation and legal consultation with a Long Island brain injury attorney, please call us at (631) 451-7900 or contact us online to learn more.

 

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Truck Accidents
Accidents on the highways can be lethal events
Bicycle Accidents
Riding a bicycle should not be unsafe
Car Accidents
If you have been seriously injured, call our firm
Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcycle accidents often result in serious injury
Medical Malpractice
Medical mistakes can cause death ruin lives
Wrongful Death
When negligence results in the death of a loved me
Premises Liability
When hurt in a location, someone has to take responsibility
Brain Injury
Brain injuries can have long term severe effects
Dog Bites
Dog bites can cause serious injury

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