Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) can result in significant changes to your life, leaving you with high medical expenses, lost earning potential, pain, and emotional suffering. Fortunately, you can work with a Lafayette traumatic brain injury lawyer to take legal action against the party responsible for the incident.
Our team at Vaughan & Vaughan can represent your best interests in civil court and with insurance agents. You can contact a Lafayette personal injury lawyer for personalized care and attention after an accident.
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Who Can File a Traumatic Brain Injury Claim?
You can file a legal claim for fair compensation if someone else caused your TBI through an act of negligence. For example, you may file a claim if you sustained an injury due to a(n):
- Workplace accident
- Act of medical malpractice
- Motor vehicle collision caused by a reckless driver
- Slip and fall on a hazard on someone else’s property
If you know someone who’s a traumatic brain injury victim, you may have the right to bring a claim forward on their behalf. However, you may only do so if you serve as that party’s personal executor. If you don’t fill that role, you cannot initiate legal action after any accident the injured party was involved in.
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How Can You Get Compensation for a Traumatic Brain Injury?
You have two primary options to seek maximum compensation for your TBI. Your attorney may suggest:
Settling Out of Court
You can seek fair compensation by allowing your attorney to negotiate with the insurance company representing the negligent party. Settling allows us to hold the at-fault party responsible for their negligent actions while avoiding court fees.
Filing a Lawsuit
Filing a personal injury lawsuit after a traumatic brain injury accident can allow you to demand compensation for your recent losses. That compensation can help you pay off any medical bills related to your post-accident medical care.
If a court finds that negligence to be particularly egregious, said court may enact punitive damages against the offending party. Those damages, in turn, can further punish the responsible party for the harm they did to you.
There is no fee
unless you win
What Compensation do You Get for a TBI?
You can seek fair compensation for all the expenses caused by your TBI. Depending on your situation, your attorney may help you seek funds to cover your:
- Medical expenses
- Pain and suffering
- Physical therapy
- Lost wages or employment opportunities
- Mental anguish
- Property damage
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of consortium and loss of companionship
Accident victims are often unaware of the value of their claims or the damages they have incurred. You can discuss your right to these forms of financial compensation with an experienced brain injury lawyer.
Our team can thoroughly evaluate your losses to ensure you don’t accept an undervalued settlement.
Why Hire a Lafayette Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer?
The state of Indiana does not require you to work with a personal injury attorney if you want to take legal action after a traumatic brain injury accident. However, hiring a lawyer means you’ll have professional help seeking full coverage for your medical expenses and other losses.
Our attorneys know how to build and format your traumatic brain injury claim to meet the standards set by Indiana’s civil courts. We can also support you before and during a trial – or, in some cases, private negotiations.
If you have an experienced lawyer on your side, it’s much harder for both the liable party and insurance companies to undervalue your losses. Traumatic brain injury attorneys can:
- Find the liable party
- Investigate the accident
- Track all of your losses
- Take care of legal communication
Your lawyer can also explain the personal injury claim process to you. Speak to us today about securing a fair settlement or filing a lawsuit to resolve your legal claim.
What does It Cost to Hire a Lawyer?
Committing to working with a personal injury attorney can be challenging, especially if you have financial concerns. Vaughan & Vaughan takes a two-fold approach to those worries. First, we offer free consultations. These consultations don’t require you to commit to legal action.
Second, we work on contingency, meaning you won’t get billed for our services. We only get paid if we win your case, and even then, payment gets filtered through our pre-trial contingency fee agreements.
Why Pick Us After a TBI Accident?
We understand the critical role of a personal injury lawyer in helping clients secure compensation after an accident. Our team has extensive experience; we’ve handled legal claims for over a century. We know the types of damages you can recover and the strategies that work to resolve cases quickly.
Our team focuses on the unique aspects of traumatic brain injury cases and supports clients throughout their road to recovery. We’ve brought millions in compensation to clients like you, factoring in the impact of emotional distress and mental suffering on personal injury claims.
We stick with you throughout the entire legal process and quickly respond to any questions you have.
What Evidence do We Look for in TBI Claims?
Our team collects evidence to demonstrate that someone else caused your TBI and the associated financial burdens. The evidence we can use to establish liability after a severe injury like a TBI can include the following:
- Statements from bystanders regarding your accident
- Social media posts describing your accident
- Input from medical professionals addressing the cause of your condition
- Speculation on liability from police officers and insurance claims adjusters
- Accident recreations
- Medical Records
- Additional expert witness statements
- Physical debris from the accident scene
We can submit some combination of this evidence alongside a lawyer’s critical analysis to better convince a judge of your right to legal action. We strive to show that someone else owed you a duty of care, violated their duty, and directly caused your financial losses.
We can use the evidence you gather to negotiate for financial compensation or initiate a civil trial. Our attorneys can help you determine which course of action best suits your needs.
What Are the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injuries?
Traumatic brain injuries can cause both short-term and permanent brain damage. Even so-called “mild” TBIs resulting from car accidents, falls, assaults, or sports injuries may have long-lasting effects that persist for months, years, or even a lifetime after the initial injury occurred.
Common complications and long-term effects of brain trauma caused by head injuries include:
- Headaches
- Dizziness
- Memory loss
- Loss of coordination
- Loss of motor function
- Decreased attention and concentration
- Mood changes such as irritability
- Sleeping problems
In some cases, these kinds of persistent symptoms can interfere significantly with daily life activities like working, socializing, or relationships. More severe traumatic brain injuries can also cause ongoing physical impairments such as:
- Vision or hearing problems
- Seizures
- Paralysis
- Weakness on one side of the body
These injuries may require lifelong care for disabilities. Hiring an experienced Lafayette traumatic brain injury lawyer can help ensure those suffering from the chronic effects of a TBI receive maximum compensation to pay for medical care, lost wages, and quality of life expenses.
How Long do You Have to File a TBI Claim?
When you have suffered a catastrophic injury such as a spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury, the state of Indiana gives you the right to pursue legal action against the at-fault party. However, you must submit your claim before your statute of limitations, outlined in Indiana Code section 34-11-2-4, expires.
Generally, you have two years to begin the legal process. An attorney can review your situation and provide more specific information about the deadline for your case. The court can dismiss your request for damages if you wait too long.
Our team takes your case seriously and gets to work quickly to give you the best chance of securing fair damages.
Contact a Traumatic Brain Injury Law Firm in Lafayette Today
Vaughan & Vaughan’s team of experienced attorneys can look into your accident and help you establish liability for your TBI-related losses. Together, we can format a civil claim and present your argument for financial support to Lafayette’s civil courts.
You are legally entitled to pursue compensation for your injuries, pain and suffering, and your other losses. You can count on a Lafayette traumatic brain injury lawyer to fight tooth and nail for the maximum compensation.
Contact our office today for a free initial consultation to learn how we can help.
