Every day our law firm works on New Mexico brain injury cases. These cases generally result from serious New Mexico auto accidents.
Across the United States, over 5.5 million people deal with the aftermath of traumatic brain injury. Because of these numbers, many experts consider Traumatic Brain Injury as a "silent epidemic."
What is a TBI? Any injury to the human head can be serious. However, Traumatic Brain Injury ("TBI") happens when there is permanent, life-altering harm or death. TBI occurs in a variety of circumstances, including:
- car accidents
- bicycle accidents
- slip-and-fall accidents
- motorcycle accidents (particularly where there is no helmet)
- truck accidents
- rough shaking of an infant (shaken baby syndrome)
- negligent vaginal deliveries
- fights, assaults, muggings
- school activities (sporting event injuries, gym or track accidents)
Any sudden hard blow to the head can result in a TBI. Many TBIs are fatal.
Other TBI victims can be unconscious, or comatose, for many weeks, months, or even years. TBI victims may live indefinitely on mechanical life support, and many others face life with permanent mental or physical disabilities. It is common for families to deal with adapting to a TBI victim whose personality is distinctly different as a result of the injury, in addition to the victim's other physical changes.
TBIs can be open or closed. "Open TBIs" involve a skull fracture: here, there is actual opening in the skull. "Closed TBIs" are not head fractures. They are caused by tumors, breathing toxic chemicals, and are seen all too often in babies born from vaginal deliveries. Closed TBIs are considered even more dangerous because of their subtlety: fatal blood clots can silently form in a closed TBI, for example.
If you or a loved one has suffered a brain injury, the law may provide for legal remedies to help your family deal with the financial impact. Recovery can include medical expenses, long-term medical care and rehabilitation costs, lost wages, pain and suffering, and other related expenses.
Please feel free to contact Keller & Keller for a free, initial legal consultation.
For further information:
Head Injury Outline
Life With TBI
