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Aviation accidents, car accidents, falling accidents, medical mistakes, defective or unreasonably dangerous products — each and every one of these could potentially cause a person to suffer a traumatic brain injury.
Brain injuries can be severe enough to leave a person in need of 24-hour-a-day care. That said, brain injuries can also be subtle enough to escape detection for weeks or months after an accident. Most injuries fall somewhere in between. Whatever the degree of damage, all of these injuries can permanently and profoundly change people's lives for the worse.
The challenge for a lawyer representing someone who has suffered such an injury is twofold.
First, you have to be able to make the medical evidence make sense to a jury. To do that, you need a well-respected, well-spoken medical expert and you need to know what questions to ask. The second challenge lies in getting the jury to understand the profound ways that the brain injury has changed your client's life without begging for the jury's sympathy (which can backfire and be unethical).
The Experience to Overcome Any Challenge
Drawing from more than 40 years of personal injury litigation experience, attorneys at O'Reilly Collins have developed the skills and expert resources to help you recover financial compensation for your injuries.
On the medical issues, our law firm works with doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists and other appropriate experts to prepare these cases for trial. We also spend a great deal of time with our clients and their families to make sure we understand how their lives have been changed by the injury.
This can be especially important in cases when the brain damage is subtle. The smallest details can be crucial to getting a jury to understand that being able to function does not mean everything is okay. In fact, twenty years ago, our firm obtained a $3 million dollar verdict for a plaintiff who suffered a head injury and returned to work.
The San Francisco area-based law firm of O'Reilly Collins handles brain injury lawsuits for people throughout California and the United States. To learn more, contact us online or call our law offices directly at 888-696-5371 (toll-free).
