A personal injury attorney who has significant experience in brain injury lawsuits shold be able either to help you with these matters or recommend somenone he knows who can.
more »Ask. Inquire of the lawyer what brain injury cases he has handled, what results he has achieved and what involvment he has with brain inury organizations.
more »TBI victims, more than any other injured persons, are charged in court as malingerers and fakers. Who makes those charges? The defense counsel and the insurance companies for the defendants. If a jury believes those charges to be true, then a TBI victim will probably lose his case. What helps his case, though, and what’s ...
more »While life care planners, doctors, employers and others can and do present evidence about a TBI victim’s monetary losses (actual in the past and estimated in the future), an economist is routinely called upon to calculate into present value the amount of all future economic losses. This can be quite complicated as it involves issues ...
more »A life care planner is an expert who develops and quantifies plans of care for injured persons. They include the cost of future medical care and other services and items needed to assist the TBI victim (e.g., medications, transportation and other assisted living expenses).
more »Sometimes experts are hired by a brain injury victim’s lawyer simply to review and analyze records. This is called a consulting expert. He is not expected to testify in court and his conclusions and reports need not be provided to the defense. When we want an expert to testify in court, the fees he must ...
more »Defense insurance companies often request and the judges allow examination and testing of TBI victims by a neuropsychologist acting for the defense. So plaintiffs need to have their own neuropsychologist to analyze and rebut the defense claims. Also, neuropsychologists can be extremely effective in showing jurors the quantifiable effects of brain injuries.
more »On January 27, 2003, at about 9:45 a.m., Lucille Turuseta was walking into the rear entrance of an office building at 175 Main Street in White Plains where she worked as the office manager for a court... ...
New York's appellate courts issued decisions in 10 cases in 2011 that approved pain and suffering damages in the sum of $3,500,000 or more. The largest was $12,000,000 for a 24 year old woman who was... ...
Luis Ramos was sitting in a parked car in the parking lane, on Claremont Parkway in the Bronx on September 24, 2001. He had been waiting for his son when he decided to exit the car. After opening the... ...
I am a traumatic injury trial lawyer based in White Plains, New York with a dynamic practice in all of the courts in the New York City metropolitan area as well as Westchester County and the entire Hudson Valley region. My firm, which I founded, practices plaintiff’s personal injury law exclusively. Our main areas of ...
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