If you suffer a brain injury as a result of an auto accident, workplace mishap, slip-and-fall, or other event, our Baltimore brain injury lawyer will help you obtain the compensation you need and deserve.
While injuries sustained in any type of accident can vary, a brain injury is all too common and can have devastating effects on you or a loved one. With such an injury, the brain suffers various levels of damage as a result of a severe blow or sudden jolt to the head, requiring medical treatment and time for you to heal. Filing a claim with the insurance company will be imperative to help with any outstanding medical bills, lost wages, and more.
All too often, however, personal injury claims involving a brain injury result in less compensation than the injured person deserves. Don’t let this happen to you! Instead, by working with a dedicated and experienced Baltimore brain injury lawyer, you can seek and obtain the compensation you need to avoid financial hardship and give you peace of mind as you go through the stages of healing and work towards getting back to your life.
How Our Brain Injury Lawyer Can Help You Obtain Compensation
Steve Heisler understands how brain injuries can impact your life, and he seeks the highest level of compensation available to meet your needs as you attempt to recover. One of the biggest obstacles, however, is the insurance companies who are quick to deny a claim or offer a lower settlement at first in hopes you will accept it and close your claim quickly.
Before allowing it to get to this point, contact us for help. Steve Heisler fights for those who have been injured and will personally take the time to thoroughly review your case and determine what is needed to obtain the compensation you rightly deserve.
Our law firm can help your claim in many ways. For example, we can:
- Provide specialized knowledge of brain injuries, including the types of head injuries that can occur in accidents and what their symptoms are, so we know how to evaluate your case
- Maintain a solid understanding of traumatic brain injury compensation laws and allowable amounts in the state of Maryland
- Know what to compile to prove your case and obtain the highest amount of compensation available
- Calculate damages, both economic and non-economic
- Conduct negotiations with insurance companies without backing down or settling for less than you deserve
- Determine when negligence is involved and take the next steps if that’s the case
- File a lawsuit on your behalf, if necessary, to obtain the full compensation you deserve.
Types of Compensation Our Baltimore Brain Injury Lawyers Will Seek on Your Behalf
Medical treatment for a traumatic brain injury can be costly. Depending on the specific injury type, you may be in the hospital for weeks and have to return for treatments over a long period of time. Meanwhile, your bills can add up, and the time away from work can cause financial hardship for you or your family.
Your brain injury lawyer will review your case and calculate damages to seek from the insurance company or when filing a lawsuit, depending on your particular circumstances. These can be both economic and non-economic damages.
Economic Damages
Economic damages are those which can be quantified with dollar amounts. These can include:
- Medical Expenses: Medical expenses following an accident with brain injuries can be exorbitant, including emergency treatments, physical therapy and rehabilitation, surgeries, medical devices, medications, hospital stays, and ongoing doctor appointments. Your attorney will compile these expenses, calculate future ones, and include them in your claim.
- Lost Wages: After suffering a brain injury, you may miss work for long periods of time and, in turn, lose the wages that go along with it. We will seek those wages and any benefits missed out on because of your time away from work.
- Loss of Future Earning Capacity: If you are no longer able to do the work you did before the brain injury, we can seek a loss of future earning capacity. This amount will need careful review and calculation.
- Future Life Care Needs: Depending on the severity of your brain injury, we will seek appropriate compensation for future medical costs, and ongoing care.
Non-Economic Damages
Non-economic damages do not focus on specific dollar amounts and often are difficult to quantify. For this reason, working with an experienced brain injury attorney will be beneficial. Types of non-economic damages may include pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of companionship, and more.
In Maryland, there is a statutory cap on non-economic damages for a personal injury claim or wrongful death claim. This cap increases every year, so knowing what you can seek under state law is the first place to start, followed by a knowledgeable attorney calculating and proving what you are indeed entitled to in non-economic damages.
What Evidence Brain Injury Lawyers Will Compile to Prove Your Case
The severity of a brain injury is not always obvious immediately after an accident, so it is essential that you do not accept an insurance settlement too early. Your brain injury lawyer can help you compile the evidence to prove your case and receive the compensation you need to prevent financial hardship.
Examples of the types of evidence your brain injury lawyer will compile when building your case include the following:
- Medical records relating to your injury, including medical images such as X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs
- Evaluations and diagnostic test results for measuring levels of physical and mental function, cognitive ability, motor skills, speech, and information processing abilities. This includes neuropsychological testing
- Medical expert testimony
- Mental health and counseling specialist testimony
- Impact witnesses, including friends, family, or co-workers who you knew before the accident to provide testimony on how the injury impacted your life.
While these are the most common forms of evidence for a brain injury claim or lawsuit, each patient and circumstance can be different. Steve Heisler takes this into account and provides personalized attention and service according to each client’s needs.
[call out] Before filing a claim or accepting a settlement, seek the legal advice of Baltimore brain injury attorney Steve Heisler. Call (410) 625-4878 to schedule a consultation.
Why You Should Hire a Brain Injury Attorney
Suffering a brain injury requires you to spend time in treatment and recovery. During this time, you will need to focus on caring for yourself or a loved one. This care can be physically, mentally, and emotionally draining on everyone and will require great effort, time, and patience. By hiring a brain injury attorney to build and defend your claim, you can focus more on that healing and recovery while knowing that your best interests are being attended to compassionately and professionally.
While you heal, your brain injury attorney will take over the tasks of:
- Determining the causes of your injury and who is liable
- Proving negligence, if applicable
- Negotiating a fair settlement on your behalf.
You will receive updates on the case when we have news to report and be able to weigh in on the evidence and the final decision of a settlement or filing of a lawsuit. Your legal team will only be a phone call away.
Contact the Baltimore Law Offices of Steven H. Heisler Today
When you or a loved one experiences an accident resulting in a brain injury, the challenges can be overwhelming. Attorney Steve Heisler will take the time to review your case, compile evidence, negotiate with the insurance company, and obtain the amount of compensation you deserve. If necessary, he will also take it a step further by filing a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit on your behalf. Contact us today at (410) 625-4878 to schedule your free consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the common causes of brain injuries?
Brain injuries can result in a variety of ways, such as:
- Auto accidents
- Slip and falls
- Workplace accidents, such as blunt trauma to the head on a construction site
- Medical malpractice
- Faulty products
- Sports activity.
While these are the most common causes, head injuries may occur in several other ways as well, and seeking legal advice will be beneficial to determine how to obtain fair compensation.
What are the different types of brain injuries?
Brain injuries range from mild to severe and include the following:
- Concussions: a milder traumatic brain injury caused when the brain experiences sudden movement, such as bouncing against the interior of the skull
- Contusions: a mild or serious bruising of the brain that often happens when the head comes into contact with a solid object during an accident
- Coup-contrecoup: an injury to both sides of the brain as a result of the head impacting an object (with injury occurring at the site of impact and the opposite side)
- Diffuse Axonal Injury: a type of injury caused not by impact but by a jarring, shaking, or rapid rotation of the brain within the skull, tearing parts of the brain’s structure
- Penetrating Brain Injury: also called an open head injury, the penetration of the skull by an external object causes damage to both the skull and the brain
- Brain Bleed: also known as a brain hemorrhage, refers to bleeding between the brain tissue and the skull or inside the brain tissue. This is a life-threatening condition that requires immediate medical attention.
Any injury to the head can be dangerous, and seeking medical assessment and treatment is essential.
What are the most common symptoms of a brain injury?
Depending on the severity of your brain injury, you can experience one or more of the following symptoms.
- Headaches
- Dizziness
- Confusion
- Fatigue
- A feeling of increased pressure inside the head
- Nausea
- Numbness
- Tingling
- Slurred speech
- Balance issues
- Seizures
- Swelling or bleeding of the brain
- Loss of consciousness or coma.
A brain injury may produce symptoms right away or take a few days to show, so seeking medical care immediately is crucial to your recovery.
What is the deadline for filing a brain injury claim in Maryland?
To file a claim in Maryland for a brain injury, you have between 3 and 5 years, depending on the circumstances surrounding that injury:
- For those who suffer a brain injury due to the negligence of another party, you have up to three years from the exact date of the injury to file a claim in Maryland.
- For brain injuries occurring due to the negligence of medical professionals, you will have up to five years from the injury date or three years from the discovery date of an injury, whichever of these occurs first.
- For a wrongful death claim filed on behalf of a lost loved one, a surviving family member or designated person will have three years from the date of the fatality.
It will take time to prepare a claim, so start as soon as possible by contacting a brain injury lawyer so you won’t miss the deadline and relinquish the right to file a claim at all.
Contact Steven H. Heisler as Your Baltimore Brain Injury Lawyer
Steven H. Heisler and his legal team put clients first and work diligently alongside you to reach a successful outcome for your case. We will work toward an acceptable and fair settlement on your behalf and will not hesitate to file a lawsuit if warranted.
Wherever you are in Maryland, if you or a loved one suffer a traumatic brain injury, contact the Baltimore office of Steven H. Heisler at (410) 625-4878.
Attorney Steve Heisler
Steve Heisler decided in 1996 that he was going to focus his law practice exclusively on injury cases. Since then, he has been representing injured people against insurance companies, disreputable medical practitioners and Big Pharma, and doing it with compassion, honesty and level-headed rationality. [ Attorney Bio ]
