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Car Accident Traumatic Brain Injuries

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Article debunks defense myth that the risk of injury in a “minor impact” collision is not greater than activities of daily living

Most personal injury lawyers have represented clients suffering from the chronic consequences of concussion and musculoskeletal injuries following a rear end collision that caused minimal damage to the vehicles involved. ...more

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Types of Closed Head Injuries After A Crash

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Recognizing the signs and symptoms of closed head injuries as soon as possible gives victims the best chance to get the proper medical treatment and to recover from whatever type of closed head injury they have suffered....more

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Eyes on the Road: What to Do If Injured By a Distracted Driver

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Driving while multitasking is an accident waiting to happen. Each year, distracted driving kills thousands of people and injures hundreds of thousands more. It's a growing epidemic that led to April being designated...more

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I Got Hit in the Head. Now What?

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Traumatic brain injury or “TBI” is one of the most frightening injuries to suffer. Our very existence, the “I am” part of philosopher Rene Descartes’ famous observation “I think, therefore I am” vanishes if we are no longer...more

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Types of Mental Health Conditions After a Crash

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A person’s response to the distressing and disturbing nature of a crash can result in feeling a loss of control, helplessness, pain, confusion, loss of sense of self and self-worth, and an inability to cope. Injuries may...more

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Dementia risk is very real for brain injury survivors

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Study of 2.8 million people in Denmark confirms what doctors and auto accident attorneys have seen for years: Dementia risk skyrockets after TBI; dementia long-term effect for many brain injury survivors; defense IME doctors...more

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The Challenges of Concussion Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment: The Most Complicated Disease of the Most Complex Organ of the...

A review published in the September 2017 issue of Frontiers in Neurology proposes use of “systems science” to better understand concussion diagnosis and prognosis. This is a discipline that analyzes complex problems as whole...more

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Despite No Allegations of Bad Faith or Tortious Conduct, Liberty Mutual Owes Millions for Breaching the Duty to Defend

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In Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co., No. 1:15-cv-01264-JES-JEH, 2017 WL 3388161 (C.D. Ill. Aug. 7, 2017), the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment for...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Traumatic Brain Injuries: The Dynamics

When a loved one experiences a traumatic brain injury (TBI), family dynamics are forever changed. The athletic boy who suffered a blow to the head during batting practice no longer is able-bodied. The academic girl who...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

What are the costs of traumatic brain injury (TBI)?

The public often expresses outrage at high-dollar verdicts when they reach the six- and seven-figure level. This is understandable in court cases, since only the jury hears all the evidence in a given case and the public is...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Traumatic Brain Injury — What are the facts?

Over 5 million Americans have suffered a traumatic brain injury, or a TBI, and are living with disabilities that range from minor to severe. TBI patients who survive face a lifetime of consequences that affect every aspect of...more

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