Traumatic Brain Injuries

The attorneys at McCutchen and Sexton have considerable experience in representing patients having traumatic brain injuries. This experience has taught us that some doctors fail to appreciate and diagnose traumatic brain injuries following a motor vehicle accident or other injury.

Did you know that anyone who suffers a loss of consciousness has, by definition, suffered a traumatic brain injury? However, a loss of consciousness is not required to suffer a brain injury. We also frequently see clients having a brain injury that did not even hit their head in an accident or when they were injured.

The accepted definition of a mild traumatic brain injury, as developed by the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee of the Head Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, includes:

(a) any period of a loss of consciousness
(b) loss of memory for events immediately before or after an accident
(c) any alteration in mental state at the time of an accident
(d) focal neurological deficit(s) that may or may not be transient

Our attorneys know that it is frequently difficult to diagnose a mild traumatic brain injury even though the injury may be significant enough to disrupt an individual’s entire life. While a proper diagnosis is the key to achieving proper compensation following injury in an accident, it is more importantly the key to obtaining proper treatment.

At McCutchen and Sexton, one of our primary objectives in representing anyone that has been injured is to insure that a proper medical diagnosis has been or can be made so that our clients may receive proper treatment and their lives can return to normal or as near to their pre-injury state as possible.