Oakland Brain Injury Lawyer
Brain injuries can be sustained by traumas such as car accidents,
truck accidents, or
construction accidents, from
medical malpractice, or even from use of a
defective product. No matter the cause of your brain injury a brain injury attorney can help verify if you should file a claim to possibly receive some valuable compensation for your pain and suffering. An
Oakland personal injury lawyer may legally represent injured victims and their families after sustaining brain injuries. If it can proven that your brain injury was directly caused by someone else's careless or negligent behavior or actions, you may be entitled to monetary compensation that can help you pay hefty medical expenses accrued.
Understanding the Different Types of Brain Injury
There are two main types of brain injuries people can sustain. One is known as a traumatic brain injury and the other is an acquired brain injury. Although traumatic and acquired brain can occur differently, both can have long-lasting or permanent impact on a person's thinking and cognitive reasoning abilities, feelings and emotions, actions and movements, and can also alter sensory perception and bodily functions. This can be an extremely distressing situation and bears much gravity for a victim and their family.
Traumatic Brain Injury
Sustaining a direct blow to the head would qualify as Traumatic Brain Injury. The force of which is severe enough to break through a person's skull, damaging the soft brain tissue, or to cause the brain to shift inside the skull. Traumatic brain injuries are caused every day by such events as sports accidents, gun shots, physical violence, blunt force trauma with an object or from a fall.
Acquired Brain Injury
An acquired brain injury is not hereditary, nor congenital, nor degenerative, and occurs after birth. As these injuries occur on a cellular level, cells throughout the entire brain are affected, instead of affecting just one particular area in the brain. Some of the more frequent causes of an acquired brain injury can include incidences such as shock from extreme mental or emotional trauma, blood loss, heart attacks, strokes, impingement of an artery, head or neck trauma, electric shock or lightening, injuries which caused a person's chest to be crushed, choking, drowning, or an obstructed airway.
Representing Brain Injury Victims in Oakland, CA
Regardless of the circumstances that led up to the injury or the exact case, it is important that no time is wasted in securing the necessary legal guidance that you truly deserve. At the Pacific Attorney Group, we have proven time and time again that we can be trusted to handle even the most complex of cases. We know how daunting and discouraging it can be to file a personal injury claim, but we also know how important the outcome is.
For this reason, should you choose to work with our firm, you can breathe easier knowing that you will have a lawyer on your side who is interested in more than just securing you as a client. We are truly interested in your best interests and will therefore stop at nothing in our efforts to help you obtain the just and desirable outcome that you truly deserve.
Contact an Oakland brain injury attorney from our firm for a free initial consultation to discuss legal options for your claim.