The Complete Guide to Traumatic Brain Injury Cases in Virginia
Traumatic brain injuries represent some of the most complex and consequential claims in personal injury law. Unlike a broken bone that heals in weeks or a laceration that closes with stitches, a brain injury can fundamentally alter who a person is. It can affect their personality, cognitive abilities, emotional regulation, and capacity to work and maintain relationships. For victims and their families in Virginia, understanding how the legal system addresses these devastating injuries is essential to securing the compensation and resources needed for a lifetime of care.
As Virginia’s only board-certified truck accident attorney by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, I have handled numerous cases involving traumatic brain injuries from vehicle collisions, workplace accidents, and other catastrophic events. This guide draws on that experience to explain what you need to know about traumatic brain injury cases in Virginia, from initial symptoms through litigation and recovery.
What Is a Traumatic Brain Injury Under Virginia Law?
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when an external force causes brain dysfunction. This can happen through direct impact to the head, rapid acceleration or deceleration forces that cause the brain to move within the skull, rotational forces acting on the brain, or penetrating injuries that damage brain tissue directly.
Virginia courts recognize TBI as a serious injury category that often justifies significant compensation, but the law doesn’t define specific types of brain injuries by statute. Instead, Virginia follows medical standards in categorizing brain injuries, which courts then use to assess damages and evaluate claims.
The Spectrum of Severity
Brain injuries exist on a spectrum from mild to severe:
Mild TBI (Concussion): Despite the word “mild,” these injuries can have serious and lasting effects. A concussion involves temporary loss of brain function, often without visible injury on standard imaging. Symptoms may include confusion, headache, dizziness, memory problems, and sensitivity to light or noise. While many concussions resolve within weeks, some develop into post-concussion syndrome with symptoms persisting for months or years. The medical community recognizes that a large number of concussion sufferers have permanent deficits. These unfortunate survivors are referred to as “the miserable minority.”
Moderate TBI: These injuries typically involve loss of consciousness lasting from several minutes to hours, or post-traumatic amnesia lasting up to 24 hours. Imaging studies often reveal brain abnormalities such as contusions, bleeding, or swelling. Recovery may take months to years and often involves ongoing or even permanent cognitive, physical, or emotional challenges.
Severe TBI: Characterized by extended unconsciousness, coma, or profound neurological deficits, severe TBIs frequently result in permanent disability. These cases almost always require extensive acute care, rehabilitation, and lifelong medical management and support services.
Understanding where an injury falls on this spectrum matters enormously in Virginia litigation because it directly affects damage calculations, the types of expert testimony required, and the overall settlement or verdict value.
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Types of Traumatic Brain Injuries
Traumatic brain injuries vary significantly in their nature, severity, and location. Understanding the different types of TBIs helps explain why symptoms, treatment approaches, and long-term prognoses differ so dramatically among brain injury survivors.
The most common types of traumatic brain injuries include:
1. Concussions
Concussions are a mild traumatic brain injury. These are the most common type of traumatic brain injuries. The term “mild” is relative to other brain injuries, but calling something a mild TBI does not mean that it is a mild injury. A mild TBI can have serious effects. Concussions can result from a blow causing the brain to move within skull. But it can also occur when the brain experienced acceleration-deceleration forces or rotational forces. These can occur with or without loss of consciousness
2. Contusions
You can think of a brain contusion as a bruising of brain tissue. This injury typically occurs when the skull sustains a blow, and it often appears at the impact site. There could also be a coup-contrecoup effect where a contusion also occurs on the opposite side of the brain. These injuries may require surgical intervention if they are large and cause debilitating effects.
3. Penetrating Brain Injuries
A penetrating brain injury occurs when an object breaks through skull and enters brain tissue. This can result from bullets, skull fragments, or sharp objects. This type of injury often causes severe localized damage and infection risk.
4. Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
Diffuse axonal injury can result when the brain axons are stretched and are injured and even severed. This can occur when the brain is shaken or strong rotational forces are exerted. DAI can cause widespread damage to brain’s white matter. This injury typically results from rotational forces or severe shaking. This can be one of most serious TBI types, and it often causes prolonged unconsciousness
5. Hematomas
Hematomas are blood clots that form in or around the brain after trauma. There are three main types of hematomas: epidural, subdural, intracerebral. Hematomas can be life-threatening if not promptly treated.
6. Skull Fractures
Skull fractures are breaks in the skull bone that may injure underlying parts of the brain. Fracture types include linear, depressed, diastatic, and basilar fractures. The severity of skulls fracture depends on fracture type and associated brain injury.
7. Second Impact Syndrome
Second impact syndrome occurs when someone suffers a second concussion before the first has healed. When a second impact occurs this way, rapid, severe brain swelling often results. This type of injury is particularly dangerous for young athletes.
8. Hypoxic Brain Injury
Hypoxic brain injuries occur when the brain is deprived of sufficient oxygen to the point that brain cells begin to die and brain damage occurs. Considering that the brain can use up to 1/5th of a body’s blood supply, any deprivation of blood and the oxygen it provides can have devastating or even deadly consequences.
9. Anoxic Brain Injury
An anoxic brain injury occurs when the brain receives no blood supply or oxygen at all. According to the Shepherd Center, brain cells can die as soon as four minutes after being deprived of oxygen.
10. Ischemic Brain Injury
An ischemic brain injury is essentially a stroke. This can be caused by blunt force trauma to the head, a misdiagnosis of a stroke due to medical malpractice, or when neck arteries are damaged.
Each type of traumatic brain injury presents unique challenges for diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. The specific type of TBI, combined with its severity and location, determines the symptoms victims experience and the long-term prognosis they face. Understanding these distinctions is critical for both medical treatment and legal claims, as different injury types often require different approaches to proving causation, demonstrating damages, and establishing future care needs.
Common Causes of Traumatic Brain Injuries in Virginia Personal Injury Cases
While brain injuries can occur in countless scenarios, certain types of accidents account for the majority of TBI cases I handle:
Motor Vehicle Collisions
Car, truck, and motorcycle accidents remain the leading cause of traumatic brain injuries in personal injury claims. The forces involved in high-speed collisions, particularly rear-end impacts, head-on crashes, and T-bone accidents, can cause the brain to violently strike the inside of the skull. Crashes can also impose rotational injuries as the head whips around.
Tractor-trailer accidents pose especially high risks for severe TBI because of the massive forces involved when a commercial truck weighing 80,000 pounds collides with a passenger vehicle. Underride accidents, where a smaller vehicle slides beneath a truck’s trailer, frequently result in catastrophic head trauma when the top of the passenger vehicle is sheared away.
Even relatively low-speed collisions can cause concussions, particularly if the occupant’s head strikes the steering wheel, dashboard, window, or headrest, or if the sudden stop causes violent head and neck motion.
Workplace Accidents
Construction sites, industrial facilities, and other workplaces create numerous opportunities for brain injuries. Falls from heights, falling objects striking workers, machinery accidents, and vehicle collisions all commonly cause TBIs in occupational settings.
Virginia’s workers’ compensation system provides benefits for workplace brain injuries, but injured workers may also have third-party claims against equipment manufacturers, property owners, subcontractors, or other negligent parties beyond their employer.
Premises Liability Incidents
Slip and fall accidents, inadequate security leading to assaults, falling merchandise in stores, and other premises liability scenarios can result in brain injuries. Property owners in Virginia owe varying duties of care depending on whether the injured person is an invitee, licensee, or trespasser, which can significantly affect liability.
Pedestrian and Bicycle Accidents
When vehicles strike pedestrians or cyclists, the lack of protection for the victim’s head often results in serious brain trauma. These cases frequently involve catastrophic injuries given the vulnerability of the human body against several thousand pounds of metal and momentum.
How Virginia Law Addresses Brain Injury Damages
Virginia follows traditional common law principles in personal injury cases, which means brain injury victims can seek both economic and non-economic damages, and in some cases, punitive damages.
Economic Damages
Economic damages compensate for measurable financial losses resulting from the injury:
Past and Future Medical Expenses: Brain injuries often require emergency treatment, hospitalization, surgery, rehabilitation, ongoing therapy, medications, assistive devices, and home modifications. In severe cases, victims need life care plans detailing decades of anticipated medical needs and their associated costs.
Lost Wages and Lost Earning Capacity: Many brain injury victims cannot return to their previous employment, either temporarily or permanently. Virginia law allows recovery for both wages already lost and the diminished future earning capacity resulting from cognitive, physical, or emotional limitations caused by the TBI.
Other Economic Losses: This category includes costs for household services the injured person can no longer perform, transportation to medical appointments, and other quantifiable expenses arising from the injury.
Non-Economic Damages
Non-economic damages compensate for losses that don’t have a specific dollar value attached:
Pain and Suffering: Brain injuries cause physical pain from the injury itself, headaches, and other neurological symptoms. Virginia juries can award compensation for both past pain already experienced and future pain reasonably certain to occur.
Mental Anguish and Emotional Distress: The psychological impact of living with a brain injury—including depression, anxiety, frustration, and grief over lost abilities—constitutes compensable harm under Virginia law.
Inconvenience: When brain injuries prevent victims from engaging in activities, hobbies, or experiences, Virginia law recognizes this loss as a compensable element of damages for both past and future inconvenience.
Disfigurement and Physical Impairment: Visible scarring, physical limitations, and other permanent changes to the victim’s appearance or capabilities are separately compensable under Virginia law.
Virginia does not cap non-economic damages in most personal injury cases. However, medical malpractice cases are subject to a statutory cap that adjusts annually (currently $2.70 million as of July 1, 2025, increasing by $50,000 each year).
Punitive Damages
When a defendant’s conduct involves willful and wanton negligence or conscious disregard for the rights and safety of others, Virginia law allows juries to award punitive damages designed to punish the wrongdoer and deter similar conduct. In brain injury cases, punitive damages most commonly arise in drunk driving accidents, reckless truck driver conduct, or situations where defendants consciously disregarded known safety risks.
Virginia caps punitive damages at $350,000 pursuant to Va. Code § 8.10-38.1, regardless of the severity of the injury or the defendant’s wealth.
The Statute of Limitations and Other Critical Timing Issues
Virginia imposes strict deadlines for filing personal injury lawsuits. Brain injury cases present unique timing challenges that require careful attention.
The Basic Two-Year Rule
Virginia Code § 8.01-243 establishes a two-year statute of limitations for personal injury claims, meaning you must file your lawsuit within two years of the date the injury occurred. Miss this deadline by even a single day, and Virginia courts will dismiss your case regardless of its merits.
The Discovery Rule and Delayed TBI Symptoms
Brain injuries create a complication because symptoms may not manifest immediately after an accident. Some victims walk away from collisions feeling fine, only to develop headaches, cognitive problems, or other symptoms days or weeks later. In rare cases, subdural hematomas or other complications emerge months after the initial trauma.
Virginia courts generally measure the statute of limitations from the date of the accident that caused the injury, not from when symptoms first appeared. However, in limited circumstances involving truly latent injuries that couldn’t reasonably be discovered earlier, courts may apply the discovery rule to extend the filing deadline.
This legal uncertainty makes it critical to seek medical evaluation after any accident involving head trauma, even if you feel fine initially. Documenting your injuries promptly both protects your health and preserves your legal rights.
Wrongful Death Claims
When brain injuries prove fatal, Virginia’s wrongful death statute provides a separate two-year limitations period that runs from the date of death, not the date of the original injury. This distinction can matter significantly when victims survive for months or years with catastrophic brain injuries before eventually succumbing to complications.
Tolling for Minors
Virginia tolls (pauses) the statute of limitations for injured minors, allowing them until their 20th birthday to file personal injury claims. However, parents or guardians bringing claims for a child’s medical expenses must file within two years of the injury.
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Medical Evaluation and Treatment Pathways for Brain Injuries
The medical response to brain injuries directly impacts both health outcomes and legal claims. Understanding the standard diagnostic and treatment protocols helps injury victims and their families know what to expect and recognize when care falls short.
Emergency Assessment
When a traumatic brain injury is suspected following an accident, emergency medical personnel typically perform a rapid neurological assessment using the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), which evaluates eye opening, verbal response, and motor response. This initial scoring helps classify injury severity and guides immediate treatment decisions.
Emergency departments typically order computed tomography (CT) scans for patients with suspected TBI because CT imaging quickly identifies bleeding, skull fractures, and swelling that may require urgent surgical intervention. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides superior detail for many brain injuries but takes longer to perform and may not be appropriate for unstable patients.
Ongoing Monitoring and Treatment
Moderate and severe TBI cases require intensive monitoring for complications including increased intracranial pressure, seizures, infections, and secondary brain injuries from inadequate oxygen or blood flow. Treatment may involve medications, surgical procedures to remove blood clots or relieve pressure, and intensive supportive care.
Rehabilitation
Most brain injury victims benefit from multidisciplinary rehabilitation involving physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, cognitive therapy, and psychological support. Rehabilitation helps patients recover lost functions, develop compensatory strategies, and adjust to permanent limitations.
In Virginia legal cases, the extent and duration of rehabilitation serves as powerful evidence of injury severity and helps justify claims for future medical care costs.
Long-Term Management
Severe brain injuries often require lifetime medical management including ongoing medications, periodic imaging, treatment for seizure disorders, management of chronic pain, and mental health support for depression, anxiety, and other psychological sequelae of brain trauma.
Building a Strong Brain Injury Case in Virginia
Successful brain injury litigation in Virginia requires meticulous case development from the outset. These cases present unique evidentiary challenges because brain injuries often involve “invisible” damage that doesn’t show up on routine imaging and produces subjective symptoms that defense attorneys aggressively challenge.
Immediate Evidence Preservation
The hours and days following an accident are critical for preserving evidence that may disappear if not promptly secured:
Accident Scene Documentation: Photographs, video, measurements, and physical evidence from crash sites, workplaces, or other accident locations can be lost or destroyed quickly. In truck accident cases, I routinely send spoliation letters to trucking companies, freight brokers, and other parties demanding preservation of electronic logging device data, driver logs, maintenance records, and other evidence that companies might otherwise destroy in the normal course of business.
Medical Records: Obtaining complete medical records from emergency transport, emergency department treatment, hospitalization, and all follow-up care creates the foundation of any brain injury case. These records document initial symptoms, diagnostic findings, treatments provided, and the clinical course of recovery or persistent problems.
Witness Statements: Eyewitness accounts of how an accident occurred, the injured person’s immediate condition, and the observable changes in the victim’s functioning provide crucial evidence that memories may not accurately preserve months or years later when cases reach trial.
Medical and Cognitive Testing
One of the most valuable tools in proving brain injury claims are objective tests performed by qualified medical professionals. Objective tests can come in many forms, such as CT scans or MRIs; blood tests for GFAP (Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein) & UCH-L1 (Ubiquitin Carboxy-terminal Hydrolase-L1), neuropsychological evoked potentials, vestibular tests, pupilometers, and other tests.
Expert Witness Testimony
Brain injury cases almost always require expert testimony to explain the nature and extent of injuries, connect injuries to the accident, and establish the need for future care. Common experts in Virginia TBI litigation include:
Treating Physicians: Doctors who provided care often testify about diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and future medical needs. Their testimony carries particular weight because they have firsthand knowledge of the patient’s condition rather than serving purely as hired experts.
Independent Medical Experts: Neurologists, neurosurgeons, physiatrists, and other specialists may provide independent opinions about injury causation, severity, and prognosis. These experts review medical records, examine the plaintiff, and offer opinions within their areas of expertise.
Life Care Planners: In catastrophic brain injury cases, life care planners assess the full scope of future needs and assign costs to each category of anticipated care, creating detailed roadmaps of lifetime care costs that may reach into millions of dollars.
Vocational Experts: When brain injuries prevent victims from returning to their previous employment, vocational rehabilitation experts evaluate transferable skills, earning capacity in alternative occupations, and economic losses resulting from diminished employability.
Economists: Forensic economists calculate the present value of future medical expenses, lost earning capacity, and other economic damages, accounting for factors like wage growth, inflation, and discount rates.
Biomechanical Engineers: In cases where defendants dispute whether the accident forces were sufficient to cause brain injury, biomechanical experts can reconstruct crashes, calculate forces applied to the victim’s head and body, and opine whether those forces were capable of producing the claimed injuries.
Day-in-the-Life Documentation
Video documentation showing how brain injuries affect daily activities provides powerful evidence that helps convey the full impact of injuries in ways that medical records and testimony alone cannot convey. These videos typically show victims attempting basic self-care tasks, struggling with activities they once performed easily, and demonstrating cognitive or physical limitations that may not be apparent in a courtroom setting.
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Why Brain Injury Cases Require Specialized Legal Expertise
Not all personal injury attorneys have the knowledge, resources, or experience necessary to effectively handle traumatic brain injury cases. These claims differ from routine car accident or premises liability matters in several critical ways:
Complex Medical and Scientific Issues
Understanding brain injury cases requires familiarity with neuroanatomy, diagnostic imaging, neurological examination findings, cognitive assessment methods, and the medical literature on brain trauma. Attorneys must be able to work effectively with medical experts, understand and explain technical concepts to judges and juries, and recognize when medical opinions are well-supported or vulnerable to challenge.
Substantial Case Expenses
Brain injury litigation is expensive. Comprehensive medical evaluations, neuropsychological testing, life care planning, expert depositions, and trial testimony can easily cost $100,000 or more before trial even begins. Attorneys must have the financial resources to advance these costs and the judgment to know which expenses will prove worthwhile.
Sophisticated Defense Tactics
Insurance companies defend brain injury claims aggressively because the stakes are so high. Defense attorneys routinely hire their own medical experts to examine plaintiffs, scrutinize medical records for alternative explanations for symptoms, investigate plaintiffs’ backgrounds for pre-existing conditions or psychological issues, and conduct surveillance hoping to catch victims engaging in activities inconsistent with claimed disabilities.
Effectively countering these defense strategies requires experience with the tactics insurance companies employ and the ability to anticipate and defuse their arguments before they gain traction with judges or juries.
High-Stakes Settlement Negotiations
Brain injury cases often settle before trial, but reaching fair settlements requires a sophisticated understanding of case valuation. Attorneys must accurately project future medical needs, calculate lost earning capacity over a victim’s working life, account for the impact of Virginia’s contributory negligence rule, and assess litigation risks that might affect trial outcomes.
Insurance companies know which attorneys have the resources and determination to take cases to trial and which will accept lowball offers to avoid litigation costs. My board certification by the National Board of Trial Advocacy signals to insurers that I have both the skills and commitment to try cases when fair settlements can’t be reached through negotiation.
Structured Settlements and Future Planning
Large brain injury settlements and verdicts require careful planning to ensure funds last for the victim’s lifetime and don’t jeopardize eligibility for government benefits. Structured settlements, special needs trusts, and Medicare set-aside arrangements all require specialized knowledge to implement properly.
The Virginia Contributory Negligence Rule and Brain Injury Cases
Virginia remains one of only a handful of states that apply pure contributory negligence, a harsh rule that bars recovery entirely if the plaintiff bears any degree of fault for their injuries. This doctrine poses particular challenges in brain injury cases.
How Contributory Negligence Works
If a jury finds that both the defendant’s negligence and the plaintiff’s own negligence contributed to cause an accident, Virginia law prohibits any recovery by the plaintiff. The defendant’s negligence could be far greater than the plaintiff’s, but as long as the plaintiff shares some blame, they receive nothing.
Defense Strategies in TBI Cases
Defense attorneys exploit Virginia’s contributory negligence rule by searching for any action or inaction by the plaintiff that might constitute negligence:
– Speeding or other traffic violations
– Inattention or distraction
– Violation of workplace safety rules
– Failing to seek immediate medical care after an accident
Overcoming Contributory Negligence Arguments
Successfully defeating contributory negligence defenses requires thorough accident reconstruction, witness testimony, and sometimes expert analysis demonstrating that the plaintiff’s actions either didn’t constitute negligence or didn’t contribute to cause the injuries. In appropriate cases, the last clear chance doctrine—which allows recovery even when the plaintiff was negligent if the defendant had the last opportunity to avoid the accident—may provide a path to recovery. Or, if the defendant engaged in willful and wanton conduct, that, too, can over come contributory negligence.
What to Expect During a Brain Injury Lawsuit in Virginia
Understanding the litigation process helps brain injury victims and their families know what to expect as their cases progress:
Pre-Litigation Investigation
Before filing suit, thorough investigation and case preparation maximizes settlement prospects and positions cases for trial if necessary. This phase includes gathering medical records, conducting witness interviews, obtaining expert evaluations, and documenting damages.
Filing the Complaint
Virginia lawsuits begin with a complaint filed in circuit court setting forth the plaintiff’s allegations and demanded relief. The complaint must state facts sufficient to establish all elements of the claimed causes of action. In negligence cases, that means duty, breach, causation, and damages.
Discovery
The discovery phase allows both sides to gather evidence through interrogatories (written questions), requests for production of documents, depositions (sworn testimony), and independent medical examinations. Discovery in brain injury cases is typically extensive and may take a year or more to complete.
Mediation
Virginia courts often order mediation before trial. A neutral mediator facilitates settlement negotiations, helping parties evaluate strengths and weaknesses of their positions and explore resolution options. Mediation doesn’t always produce settlements. But it frequently does in brain injury cases where both sides recognize the uncertainties and costs of trial.
Trial
If settlement negotiations fail, cases proceed to jury trial. Virginia brain injury trials typically last several days to several weeks depending on case complexity. Juries hear evidence, receive instructions on applicable law, and deliberate to reach verdicts on liability and damages.
Appeals
The losing party may appeal adverse verdicts to the Virginia Court of Appeals and possibly the Supreme Court of Virginia. Appeals focus on legal errors allegedly committed by the trial court, not on re-evaluating factual findings. Most brain injury verdicts are affirmed on appeal, but the appellate process can add years to final resolution.
Special Considerations in Truck Accident Brain Injury Cases
As Virginia’s only board-certified truck accident attorney, I’ve handled numerous brain injury cases arising from commercial vehicle collisions. These cases involve unique legal and practical issues that require specialized knowledge:
Multiple Potential Defendants
Truck accident cases frequently involve multiple defendants including truck drivers, trucking companies, freight brokers, shippers, leasing companies, and maintenance providers. To learn more about the possible parties, please review my article Identifying Proper Defendants in Truck Accident Cases: Finding Responsible Parties. Federal and state trucking regulations create opportunities for liability beyond simple driver negligence, including negligent hiring, training, or supervision claims against trucking companies, and negligent selection claims against freight brokers who engage unsafe carriers.
Federal Regulations
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations impose detailed requirements on commercial motor vehicles, drivers, and carriers. Violations of these safety regulations can establish negligence or support claims for punitive damages when they demonstrate willful and wanton conduct.
Complex Insurance Issues
Truck accident cases often involve multiple insurance policies, disputes about policy limits, and fights over which policies apply to specific claims. High-value brain injury cases may exhaust available insurance coverage, requiring pursuit of excess policies or corporate assets to fully compensate victims.
Spoliation Concerns
Commercial trucks generate electronic data regarding vehicle speed, braking, engine performance, and driving hours. This data may be automatically overwritten or deleted unless properly preserved. Prompt spoliation letters demanding evidence preservation are essential in truck accident brain injury cases.
How Insurance Companies Minimize Brain Injury Claims
Understanding insurance company tactics helps brain injury victims recognize and resist unfair claim handling:
Quick Settlement Offers
Insurance adjusters often contact accident victims within days offering quick settlements in exchange for releases of all claims. These early offers almost always substantially undervalue claims. This is especially true in brain injury cases where the full extent of injuries may not be apparent for weeks or months.
Surveillance
Insurance companies routinely surveil brain injury claimants, hoping to capture video of activities that contradict claimed disabilities. While legitimate surveillance is legal, victims should understand they’re likely being watched and avoid actions that could be misconstrued.
Social Media Mining
Adjusters and defense attorneys scour Facebook, Instagram, and other social media for posts, photos, or videos that might undermine injury claims. Brain injury victims should avoid social media posts discussing their case or showing activities that could be misinterpreted.
Independent Medical Examinations
Defense insurance companies typically require plaintiffs to undergo examination by doctors hired by the insurer. Despite being called “independent,” these examiners almost invariably minimize injuries, question causation, and opine that claimants need little or no future care. Experienced attorneys prepare clients for these examinations and effectively challenge biased IME reports.
Delay Tactics
Insurance companies know that financial pressure and exhaustion make plaintiffs more willing to accept inadequate settlements. Defense attorneys may drag out discovery, file unnecessary motions, and employ other delay tactics hoping to force settlements.
Moving Forward After a Traumatic Brain Injury
Brain injuries change lives forever, but Virginia’s legal system provides mechanisms for injured victims to obtain compensation and accountability. No amount of money can undo the harm caused by brain trauma. But fair compensation can provide access to medical care, replace lost income, and offer some measure of justice.
If you or a loved one has suffered a traumatic brain injury in Virginia, time is critical both for preserving evidence and meeting legal deadlines. Early consultation with an attorney experienced in handling brain injury cases ensures your rights are protected. It will help ensure your case is positioned for the best possible outcome.
The complexity of brain injury litigation, the sophistication of insurance company defense tactics, and the high stakes involved all demand legal representation with specialized knowledge, substantial resources, and proven trial skills.
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The brain injury attorneys at MartinWren, P.C. bring that experience, skill, and knowledge to every brain injury case we handle. This is true whether the injury resulted from a commercial vehicle collision, workplace accident, or other catastrophic event.
Brain injury cases require not just legal knowledge. They require compassion for clients facing profound challenges and a commitment to fighting for the compensation they need and deserve. If you’re dealing with the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury, I invite you to contact our office to discuss how we can help.
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About the Author: Robert “Bob” Byrne has over 20 years of experience can has represented brain injury survivors in a number of hard fought cases. Bob can offer insight if you have questions about a brain injury case.
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