Contacting a lawyer after a traumatic brain injury inflicted by someone else is essential if you want to secure compensation for the damage and medical expenses. You can contact a personal injury attorney who will take over your case and ensure you get the right compensation. In this article, we look at the importance of hiring a lawyer after a traumatic brain injury.
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What is a traumatic brain injury?
It is a violent shock on “the head,” which can alternately or cumulatively affect the container (the cranial box) or the content (the brain, also called encephalon), which is the seat of emotions and reflection.
Hence several expressions of trauma
- head trauma
- brain trauma
- craniocerebral trauma
- cranio-encephalic trauma
Depending on the intensity of the trauma, the sequelae are serious (attention, memory, reasoning, judgment, character and behavior) but difficult to assess. Usually qualified as an “invisible disability “for this reason, head trauma, both for its management and its evaluation, requires the intervention of specialized multidisciplinary teams.
Why is an expert report vital for your compensation?
The expert report is used to translate a medical condition into a medico-legal language that will allow victims’ compensation. In this context, the evaluation is done in a fine and not global way on the declination of several items of compensable damages.
Why hire a personal injury lawyer?
It is important to meet with a lawyer specializing in bodily injury as soon as possible to allow him to properly guide the process of compensating victims of bodily injury. As soon as seized, the specialized lawyer can quickly analyze the rights of the victim and his relatives by:
- obtaining and analyzing the police report (the circumstances of the accident condition, the right to compensation)
- the identification of the insurer or the debtor of the compensation.
- the examination of the various insurance contracts possibly subscribed by the victim (contractual guarantees) …
The lawyer’s fee will correspond to the remuneration for the work provided by the latter. When the lawyer intervenes very early, he does not undergo the expertise but supervises it effectively by ensuring the independence of the expert and his specific competence for the injury or disability concerned.
In addition, the lawyer will build the mission to which the expert will have to answer, ensuring the recognition of all the sources of damage and adapting the questions asked to the rhythm of the evolution of the victim’s bodily injuries.
The quality of medical reports will be improved, allowing:
- in the developmental phase, to obtain supplies at each important stage of the injured person’s journey and particularly when returning home.
- Consolidation, to achieve full compensation for all the damage suffered and all the needs caused by the situation of disability.
In any event, victims of bodily injury must always submit their situation to an independent disability lawyer before signing a transaction that almost always binds them irreversibly.
Early recourse to a specialized lawyer is recommended since the latter will quickly diagnose the victim’s rights which may be indisputable depending on their status (pedestrian, transported passenger or cyclist) and potentially open to disputes if the victim is a driver.
The lawyer’s presence will make it possible to give a dynamic to the compensatory recourse, according to the needs of the victim (who is compensated after a road accident).
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