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It is certainly good news to hear about Representative Gabrielle Gifford, the Democratic representative from Tucson, Arizona who was shot in the head on January 8, 2011 at a political rally. She is slowly regaining her ability to speak and recently asked for a "piece of toast." Right now, no medical doctor is sure if she will ever regain her speech back 100%; including all cognitive functions.
San Diego Brain Injury Lawyer: A Brain Injury Accident is a potentially life altering event and may result in long-term or short-term impairments (under the AMA Impairment Guidelines 5th Edition). Brain injuries have differing levels of severity and affect each victim differently because each person's body is different, and each accident is very different bio-mehanically speaking. A person who has suffered a brain injury or brain trauma from an accident may have to readjust many areas of their life, and, sadly, they may not be able to continue living the way they did before the injury. Some areas that may be affected as a result of brain injury may include the following areas:
Gunshots to the head are extremely serious. It has been true that California injury lawyers have long been familiar with the devastating impact of traumatic brain injury on their injured clients, however Americans are being given a sudden lesson on traumatic brain injury. This is due to the horrible massacre last week that left Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords seriously injured with a traumatic brain injury from a gunshot.
About two years ago, four women, Qi Zhao and her two sisters, and one niece, were all riding the Disney Tram at Disneyland when their tram took took at turn around to go in a reverse direction. Ms. Zhao had been at the theme park about 10 hours and was fast asleep when the tram took the turn around and fell causing a brain injury.
This injury also caused a fractured skull and she was in a come for about three weeks; fortunately, the other sisters, and niece suffered only minor injuries. A lawsuit was filed by the family based on safety violations with Tram. More specifically, the Tram lawsuit alleged violations in safety precautions for tourists who get tired on the Tram ride. Now, Disney asserted that there is an assumption of the risk when a person does not listen to the safety precautions that they continually announce during the Tram ride. This case was going to a jury but Disney decided to settle it out of Court. Disney, of course, did not list publicly (as they usually do) the settlement amount, but the case was going before a conservative Orange County jury.
I suspect both sides had some interesting points in liability and defense. What do you think? Should Disney pay for these injuries when a person falls asleep in the Tram? Let me know your thoughts. Have you ever been injured at a theme park with similar facts? Different facts? Anyone injured at a theme park should consult with an experienced injury attorney to learn about their legal rights. Injuries at theme parks tend to be unique in that there is usually some defense element to consider (depending on the facts of the injury).
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Doctors in Florida will be looking at whether famous pitchman Bill Mays recent passing was caused by Mild Traumatic Brain Injury also known as MTBI. On June 27, 2009, Mays was aboard US Airways Flight 1241 when the front tire of the aircraft blew out during a landing at Tampa International Airport. Mays reported to a TV crew after the landing that he was hit on the head by falling debris (suit case) from an overhead compartment.
Everyone should be aware that an injury to the head can cause a type of bleeding that may cause serious injury, and in some cases, even death. Sometimes a person loses consciousness for a short time, and or may become “dazed and confused” following the head injury. However, there is a time that passes known to doctors as the “lucid interval” and the injured person appears to be fine.
Doctors call this period of the lucid interval as the time that passes after a traumatic brain injury; remember, a traumatic brain injury can be rather mild or severe; after this interval period the person with the head injury starts to deteriorate rapidly. This period of lucidness can last minutes or even hours. As blood slowly or rapidly collects in the brain/head region due to the injury to the brain, it slowly gives way to over powering the body to compensate. This blood collection causes a rise in intracranial blood pressure, which can and does damage brain tissue.
However, for now, Dr. Vernard Adams, after performing an initial autopsy on Mays’ body on June 29, 2009, has confirmed that Mays suffered from hypertensive heart disease, and that a heart attack was the likely cause of his death. To this end, this cannot be conclusive until toxicology tests and tissue test are completed.
It is vitally important to be ever diligent in being checked out immediately by a health care professional if you are someone you know has suffered a head injury no matter how minute.
Let me show you what you need to know in order to prove a Brain Injury in a court of law. Brain injuries sometimes are very hard injuries to prove because sometimes you cannot SEE them. As in a Closed Head injury, sometimes the injury are “behavior changes.” My name is Attorney Mark C. Blane. I have many years of experience in this type of injury; please feel free to check out a free video I have on Brain Injuries and How to Prove Them in a Court of Law at: San Diego Brain Injury Lawyer, Head Trauma Attorney – Win Your Brain Injury/Trauma Case Video.mov
Brain injuries, traumas, and concussions are usually sustained in accidents involving automobiles, construction site fall, and blast injuries. My name is Mark C. Blane and I have been helping people in San Diego County, and through out much of California with these types of injuries against the negligence of another. Let me show you what I can do for your case. Please check out my video at: San Diego Brain Injury Lawyer, Head Trauma Attorney – Win Your Brain Injury/Trauma Case Video.mov
A head injury is a serious injury and a huge responsibility for a lawyer to litigate in court. My law office has been handling head injury cases due to the negligence of another since 1999. You can contact me (Attorney Mark C. Blane) at the following contact 24/7: mark@blanelaw.com, or direct at (619) 813-7955.
Sometimes a head injury can cause a “Permanent Brain Impairment.” This impairment needs to be carefully documented in the Medical Records in order to be successful at trial. The defense will try its best to pick holes in the medical documentation and thus, your attorney needs to knowledgeable in the different medical tests that are available on the medical market to thoroughly document these sometimes devastating injuries. To learn more about what The Law Offices of Mark C. Blane can do you for you, please see the following video at: San Diego Brain Trauma Lawyer – How to Prove Your Brain Injury in Court
The courts are holding falling merchandise cases very favorably to injured folks at the moment; the reason I feel this is the case, is that the courts want to send a message to merchants to make their stores and shops SAFE for the public. When you are injured by an item that falls on you, the injuries can be devastating. Most injuries obviously involve the head/skull/brain and neck (spine).
More than likely, the reason the item or piece of merchandise fell in the first place was because of some breach of standard of due care in either the shelving, or the placing of the item on the shelf, etc.
The sad truth is head traumas are extremely common with children; according to one statistic, they account for approximately 100,000 hospitalizations (overnight stays at a hospital) each year in the United States. The San Diego area is a huge metropolis and it too is affected by many San Diego brain injuries. San Diego is also a very active family location; a lot of children enjoy the outdoors in this area of the United States. Different mechanics are involved with children and head injuries; you can find children falling off of bicycles, just everyday falls, head injuries in sports, car accidents and even child abuse.
It is more difficult to measure or document the loss functionality of the brain in a child. Why is this so?
In adults, there are usually prior medical records, prior medical history, job histories, and more adult witnesses who know the adult that can testify as to the behavior change they see. I sometimes call this the HIDDEN DAMAGES in a brain injury legal case. Earlier in our medical history, doctors and medical experts assumed that children in general were more resistant to a brain injury or head trauma in comparison with adults due to the fact that they were growing. Medical evidence as to this appears to still be on the fence, and even some medical research suggests that children are more prone to brain trauma in comparison to adults with even the same force or trauma.
A COUP Injury occurs at the precise site of impact to the head (brain goes into skull at site of trauma), and a CONTRECOUP Injury occurs on the side of the head that was opposite of the site of impact (brain goes into opposite side of skull from site of trauma). Thus, the brain is hitting against the skull bone twice, not once.
When this occurs in children, sometimes the neurologic deficits after a head trauma may not manifest for many years after the initial head trauma. Why? For one reason, frontal lobe functionality in children develop later in a child’s growth. Thus, the brain injury may not become apparent until the child reaches a later age such as adolescence which is precisely in line with the develop of higher level develop with the ability to reason.
The Frontal Lobe Section of our brains control our interpersonal skills, social interactions; any type of injury to a child’s brain may not manifest itself until much later (see my prior blog at http://www.blanelaw/blog under Brain Injuries). At the same time, injuries to a child’s brain may not impair the writing and reading centers of the brain until much later in child development. Another medical fact that may contribute to a child’s head injury becoming more difficult to treat or stabilize is the fact that a child’s skull is only approximately 1/8 as durable as that of a normal adult skull. This alone can show why brain injuries in children are more common in forces of trauma.
La Jolla Brain Injury Attorney Mark C. Blane discusses the Symptoms of a Brain Injury:
Any Trauma to the head/brain can impair or disrupt Brain Function. Here are some symptoms I have found in my La Jolla Injury Law Practice with regards to Head Trauma in general:
1. Behavioral Changes (I use witness testimony in addition to medical tests to help show this change); 2. Impaired Memory (again witness testimony can help shed light on how a person was before the head injury); 3. Slowed Thinking; 4. Inattention; 5. Faulty or Impaired Judgment;
The trick is to sort out the bonafide brain injuries from the effects of other medical conditions like a migraine, depression, or preoccupation with financial loss (job interruption or the like). In my next posting, I will discuss the types of medical tests used in documenting a head trauma or brain injury; in fact, I briefly touch upon these medical tests in the following Brain Injury video at the following link: La Jolla Brain Injury Attorney Discusses Brain Injuries-Briefly Outlines the Medical Tests Used in Proving a Brain Injury Brain Trauma
A COUP Injury occurs at the precise site of impact to the head (brain goes into skull at site of trauma), and a CONTRECOUP Injury occurs on the side of the head that was opposite of the site of impact (brain goes into opposite side of skull from site of trauma). Thus, the brain is hitting against the skull bone twice, not once.
When this occurs in children, sometimes the neurologic deficits after a head trauma may not manifest for many years after the initial head trauma. Why? For one reason, frontal lobe functionality in children develop later in a child’s growth. Thus, the brain injury may not become apparent until the child reaches a later age such as adolescence which is precisely in line with the develop of higher level develop with the ability to reason.
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Brain injuries, traumas, and concussions are usually sustained in accidents involving automobiles, construction site fall, and blast injuries. My name is Mark C. Blane and I have been helping people in San Diego County, and through out much of California with these types of injuries against the negligence of another. Let me show you what I can do for your case. Please check out my video at: San Diego Brain Injury Lawyer, Head Trauma Attorney – Win Your Brain Injury/Trauma Case Video.mov
Video Blog by San Diego Head Injury Lawyer Mark C. Blane: Brain Injury Accidents can be troublesome to Prove in Court
Brain injury accidents occur when an external force causes injury to the tissue of the brain. Brain injuries can be present without any external physical evidence, which makes them more difficult to prove in an injury case. The best way to legally prove brain injuries without any physical evidence or medical documentation is to bring in family members and those close to the victim, to testify to emotional changes within the victim.
El Cajon Child Brain Injury Attorney Mark C. Blane briefly explains that sadly children are far too often victims of head injuries from their daily activities.
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