When a person suffers a brain injury, their life is never the same. The human brain defines a person. Accordingly, brain injuries result in life-altering consequences that forever leaves victims changed due to the resulting physical impairments and behavioral changes.
A Silver Spring, Maryland brain injury attorney can help you rebuild your life by getting you financial compensation for your injury. At Portner & Shure, P.A., our brain injury attorneys know how to build and recover in complex personal injury cases. Our attorneys have spent more than 30 years obtaining justice and compensation for our English-, Spanish-, Chinese- (Mandarin and Cantonese), Vietnamese-, and Korean-speaking clients. For a free consultation, call us at or contact us online.
Types of Brain Injuries
There are a variety of brain injuries including:
- Anoxic brain injury: When the blood or oxygen supply to the brain is disrupted, the brain suffers an anoxic injury.
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI): When a person’s head suffers an impact that penetrates or fractures the skull, the brain can suffer a traumatic brain injury that disrupts normal brain functions.
- Contusion: This type of injury is another form of TBI and usually results from an impact to the head. Severe contusions can result in brain bleeding or swelling.
- Closed brain injury: These types of injuries occur due to sudden acceleration or deceleration events, which cause the brain to hit the skull.
- Open brain injury: When a person’s skull is penetrated by an outside object, the brain can suffer direct damage and an open wound.
Not every head injury results in a person suffering a brain injury. Nonetheless, head injuries often result from severe automobile collisions, falls, sports injuries, catastrophic accidents, and industrial accidents.
Effects of A Brain Injury
Minor brain injuries often cause short term effects such as headaches and blurred vision.
Severe brain injuries result often result in permanent effects such as:
- Memory loss
- Impaired decision making
- Speech issues
- Sleeping issues
- Depression and anxiety
- Coma
The cognitive effects of a brain injury have life-altering consequences for a brain injury victim.
Treatment Options for Brain Injuries
Minor brain injuries such as headaches can be cured with simple bed rest. Severe brain injuries usually require victims to seek emergency medical attention and often undergo surgery. Additionally, for brain injury victims to fully recover, follow up care such as occupational, speech, neuropsychological, and physical therapy is required. The financial cost of treating a brain injury can be staggering, which is why representation by a Silver Spring, Maryland brain injury lawyer is so highly recommended.
Compensation & Litigation in Brain Injury Cases
Brain injuries are often the result of catastrophic accidents. Understanding how such an accident occurred and who caused it requires extensive investigation. Additionally, quantifying a brain injury victim’s financial damages can be difficult. Maryland law allows a victim to seek compensation for their past and future medical expenses, past and future lost wages, and compensation for their pain and suffering. To properly quantify these damages and to claim them in court, complicated expert witness testimony is usually required.
To win a lawsuit, a brain injury victim must prove their case by a preponderance of the evidence, i.e., 51%. Meeting this burden can be difficult due to the factually complex nature of brain injury cases. Insurance companies retain aggressive defense attorneys to defend brain injury lawsuits. As such, for a brain injury victim to win a lawsuit and obtain the compensation they deserve, representation by an equally aggressive Silver Spring, Maryland brain injury lawyer should be considered early on in the claims process.
Why Hire Portner & Shure, P.A.
The Silver Spring brain injury lawyers at Portner & Shure, P.A. routinely fight insurance companies and prevail in court against their attorneys. We will fight for you to get you the compensation you deserve. All personal injury representation is performed on a contingency fee basis. Portner & Shure, P.A. receives no fee unless our client obtains a settlement or judgment in court. To schedule a free consultation regarding your brain injury case, contact us at or contact us online.
