Brain Injury Attorney in Lancaster, SC

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The brain is a fragile organ. Suffering a significant brain injury in an accident can be a life-changing event, leading to ongoing disability and costly medical care needs.

At David Blackwell Law, our skilled legal team has extensive experience helping accident victims who have suffered traumatic brain injuries (TBI) obtain compensation from those responsible for the accident. We work with brain injury survivors and families of those who have suffered TBIs in car accidents, truck accidents, slip and fall accidents, and similar incidents in Lancaster, Indian Land, Heath Springs, Kershaw, Fort Mill, and throughout South Carolina.

Evaluate the circumstances of your accident, the extent of your brain injury and potential options for pursuing a claim.
Investigate to identify all parties responsible for your injury and all potential sources of compensation to you.
Take care of all dealings with insurance companies and bill collectors on your behalf as you recover.
Provide help with other needs, such as transportation to and from medical appointments, if necessary.
Fight relentlessly to recover full and fair compensation for you.

The legal team at David Blackwell Law has extensive handling claims involving very serious injuries. We represent the right people for the right reasons. If the circumstances of your traumatic brain injury add up to a valid personal injury claim in South Carolina, we will fight for you to receive full compensation for your injuries.

Schedule a free consultation today about how we can help you seek compensation ─ and make a big difference in your life. We will not charge you a dime unless and until we recover compensation for you.

How Did Your Brain Injury Happen?

Any blow to the head can cause a traumatic brain injury. When you hit your head, or your head is suddenly jerked or violently shaken, the impact moves your brain within your skull and damages it.

Some of the most frequent causes of traumatic brain injury (TBI) are:

Falls. Falling and hitting your head is the No. 1 cause of brain injury. Elderly adults and young children are most likely to fall and suffer a TBI. But anyone can slip and fall on an icy sidewalk, slip or trip because of a spill or clutter in a store aisle or office lobby, or because of a loose stair tread or torn carpet at a hotel or restaurant.
Motor Vehicle Accidents. The impact of a car, truck or motorcycle accident may cause both drivers and passengers to hit their head, be hit in the head by loose cargo, or to suffer a violent jolt that damages the brain. Pedestrians and bicycle riders hit by motor vehicles are likely to suffer head and brain injury as they are knocked to the ground.
Sports / Recreation. Many of us have become more aware of sports- and recreation-related concussions in recent years. Sports and recreation TBIs are most common in accidents suffered in playground activities, bicycling, football, basketball, soccer, diving, and while riding off-road vehicles.
Workplace Injuries. Many TBIs are occupational injuries that occur during the course of the victim’s job duties. Job-related TBIs happen when a worker falls on surfaces that are uneven, wet and slippery or cluttered, or in falls from heights, such as ladders, scaffolds, and roofs. Being struck by objects, such as by something that falls onto a worker’s head, is another common cause of workplace head injuries. Such accidents can happen in any line of work but are more common in the construction and transportation industries.
Assault / Abuse. Many TBIs are caused by criminal assault, particularly among young adults. A form of child abuse known as “shaken baby syndrome” is abusive head trauma caused by violently shaking an infant.

If you or a loved one has suffered a serious brain injury, you likely know how it happened. What you need for a legal claim against the person(s) responsible is evidence of their negligence or recklessness. Attorney David Blackwell can gather evidence and develop a solid case for compensation to help you move forward.

Compensation for You in a Brain Injury Claim

Every brain injury is different, and how each accident victim responds to a TBI is unique. A proper personal injury claim in a TBI case is also unique to the victim’s losses and needs for a full financial recovery.

Our brain injury attorney will thoroughly evaluate the losses, or damages, you have suffered ─ and may suffer in the years ahead. We will prepare a case for you that seeks compensation for:

What Should You Expect After a Brain Injury?

The first days after a serious injury are frightening and confusing for an accident victim and those who care about that injured person. The brain injury survivor may be unconscious or in an induced coma. It’s easy to lose track of what doctors say. If you are dealing with a brain injury suffered in an accident, it may have been described as an acquired brain injury.

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a form of acquired brain injury, which is any injury to the brain that occurs after birth, including stroke and other medical problems. A TBI occurs when a sudden trauma damages the brain, such as when the head hits an object, or is violently shaken or jolted, or when an object breaks the skull and damages brain tissue.

A brain injury is categorized according to its extent, or seriousness.

A mild TBI is known as a concussion. The blow to the head that causes a concussion may result in the sensation of being momentarily dazed and confused. The victim of a concussion might lose consciousness for a short time of a minute or less.

You may have been told the extent of the brain injury. It may have been described as:

Focal Brain Injury — a TBI affecting a single area within the brain.
Diffuse Axonal Injury — a TBI that has caused widespread brain damage.

The area of the brain that has been affected by an injury will dictate the kinds of cognitive, sensory (sight, hearing, taste, etc.) or physical losses that may occur.

Frontal lobe injury damages the ability to:

Make decisions
Establish priorities and plan
Initiate action
Focus on tasks
Adjust to changes

Understand signals from the environment
Control emotions
Adhere to social norms
Speak.

Parietal lobe injury damages:

Sensory information perception and response, such as to touch, heat, cold and pain
Spatial perception
Visual perception
Ability to differentiate between sizes, shapes and colors
Ability to recognize deficits in one’s abilities

Occipital lobe injury damages:

Visual perception
Reading (recognition of printed words).

Cerebellum injury damages:

Eye-hand coordination
Balance or equilibrium
Gross and fine motor skills.

Temporal lobe injury damages:

Ability to express thoughts, ideas, wants or needs
Ability to understand other people’s spoken words
Permanent memory
Musical awareness
Ability to organize sequences.

Brain stem injury damages:

Ability to maintain consciousness
Control of involuntary functions, such as breathing, heart rate and blood pressure, swallowing, sneezing, vomiting
Coordination of eye movement or facial movement or expression.

A person hospitalized with TBI may need brain surgery to repair damaged tissue and/or relieve pressure on the brain. An interdisciplinary medical team consisting of medical, rehabilitation, and behavioral health specialists will work together to treat a serious brain injury. This may require transporting the patient to a hospital or rehabilitation center that specializes in brain injuries.

In some cases, a brain injury victim will require around-the-clock care and attention.

After recovering from surgery, most TBI patients will begin rehabilitative therapy. Rehab may start with exercises focused on walking, talking, memory and strength. Later, additional physical, speech and occupational therapy may focus on strengthening motor skills and cognitive capabilities.

The patient may be discharged to continue therapy on an outpatient basis, but severe TBI may require years of work. A person with a severe TBI will also be offered psychological counseling to learn coping skills for the changes brought on by their injury.

A severe TBI affects all aspects of the injured person’s life, and the life of everyone connected to him or her. In addition to leaving an individual unable to work for a living, the changes and stress of a severe TBI can damage relationships between the brain injury survivor and family members and friends.

According to the Brain Injury Association of South Carolina, 61,000 South Carolinians are living with a TBI-related disability. Traumatic brain injury is the No. 1 cause of death for people ages 1 to 44 in South Carolina.

If your life has been upended by a brain injury suffered in an accident someone else has caused, we want to help you. Your family does not need the extra stress of fighting an insurance company when your focus should be on your or your loved one’s health and the road ahead.

Your family will need to access all the financial resources available. Let attorney David Blackwell help your family pursue financial compensation to relieve financial stress and seek justice for you.

Contact Our Dedicated Lancaster Brain Injury Attorney

If you are facing life with a traumatic brain injury from a fall, car or truck accident or another avoidable accident in South Carolina, contact David Blackwell Law for dedicated legal assistance. We can conduct a thorough investigation of the accident, your injuries, and the compensation you may be entitled to receive.

We work with injured clients and their families out of respect and compassion for what they are going through, and with knowledge of what lies ahead for them. We want you to have the best possible financial recovery for dealing with a brain injury accident. We want you to feel comfortable talking to us and confident in our strategy for your case.

Don’t settle for less. Contact David Blackwell Law in Lancaster, South Carolina, for prompt action and committed representation from an experienced legal team. We’ll meet with you for free and investigate and vigorously pursue your claim at no charge until we have recovered compensation for you. Call us now.

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