Traumatic brain damage is one of the most challenging injuries to diagnose and recover from. People can have seemingly identical injuries but completely different prognoses. Doctors break traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) into three categories: mild, moderate, and severe.
Even with these classifications, a healthcare team may struggle to forecast how someone will recover, their future medical expenses, and whether they will be able to care for themselves.
In most personal injury cases, you are trying to prove negligence, whether a distracted car accident or slip and fall. However, in an assault case, you are alleging that a person’s intentional actions led to your injuries. A loyal brain damage attorney could help you pursue damages for a TBI from an assault in Rancho Cordova. Schedule a meeting with Hackard Law today to learn more.
TBIs are head injuries that result in damage to the brain. Mild TBIs, also known as concussions, have symptoms that appear to resolve on their own over a relatively short period. Signs that someone has a concussion include the following:
While concussions appear to go away independently over weeks or months, evolving medical research is proving that these injuries may not be as temporary as people believe. Individuals may have cumulative damage from successive concussions.
Moderate TBIs can have a life-altering impact. People may need substantial medical intervention at the time of the injury and ongoing care. In addition, they can lead to short-term and long-term concussion symptoms or more serious side effects, such as:
Severe TBIs are the worst type of brain injury. They can include all of the symptoms of mild and moderate TBIs and additional side effects like loss of vision, limb numbness or paralysis, coma, vegetative state, and even death. A Rancho Cordova attorney could help secure compensation on behalf of a loved one who suffered a serious TBI from an assault.
Assaults are the third-leading cause of TBIs. However, the medical and sociological research on TBIs and assault is not well-developed, and many victims who experience brain damage never get medical care for their injuries.
One of the most common scenarios for assault TBIs is domestic violence. Research suggests that the majority of individuals involved in long-term partner violence will experience at least one TBI during the duration of the relationship.
While most assaults are by people known to the victim, some individuals suffer TBIs from strangers or by people outside of their family unit. These injured parties may suffer a constellation of emotional effects from the assault that complicate recovery.
The relationship of the injured person to the assailant can make a difference in the legal approach to recovery. Some people mistakenly believe that they cannot sue their spouse or other family member for acts of violence.
However, California law explicitly permits individuals to file a lawsuit for acts of domestic violence. The primary difference between these suits and other personal injury lawsuits for assaults is that the injured party must establish domestic violence. A Rancho Cordova lawyer could meet those conditions by helping to prove an assault led to a TBI.
TBIs are significant injuries that can have a lifelong impact. When you are assaulted, you may minimize the impact of a head injury, especially if the assailant is a loved one.
However, you deserve justice for the harm that person caused. Our team of dedicated personal injury attorneys could help hold the at-fault party accountable for their actions. Consult a lawyer at Hackard Law to learn more about TBI from an assault in Rancho Cordova.
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