Head & Brain Injuries

• Using Car Seats as Carriers, Mini Craddles Harms Thousands of Babies

  Jim Lewis | October 21, 2009 3:46 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Infant car seats save hundreds of babies' lives each year--when the seats remain properly installed in a vehicle. Using car seats to carry infants or hold them while doing chores or taking care of...

• Head Injury Could Lead to Traumatic Brain Injury

  Jim Lewis | May 30, 2009 2:47 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  If you’ve been involved in a car wreck or some other type of accident, you may have incurred a serious head injury which could lead to a traumatic brain injury. Unfortunately, brain injuries...

• Brain injury: A major problem in Virginia (VA) and Nationwide

  Rick Shapiro | July 06, 2007 3:54 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Brain injury is a major cause of death and disability of people under age 45 and a significant medical/legal issue in tort and insurance law today. According to the Brain Injury Association of Virginia (VA) 28,000 visits to an emergency room occur in Virginia (VA) each year as a result of traumatic brain injury. Across the U.S. traumatic brain injury (TBI) costs over 56 billion dollars every...

• Brain Damage Possible From Open Wound or Closed Head Injury

  John Cooper | June 25, 2007 11:43 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  There are three types of brain injury depending upon how bad the injury is. Lawyers who handle traumatic brain injury cases have to be aware of the medicine and science related to the different categories of brain injury. The injury lawyer who handles automobile accident cases, slip and fall cases, and all types accidents may encounter either in a person with a closed head injury meaning no...

• Brain Injury Verdict Among Virginia's Largest

  Rick Shapiro | May 15, 2007 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A woman was recently awarded 12 million dollars for a brain injury from a 2003 fall. The Hampton, Virginia (VA) jury made this large award in a slip and fall accident case. The large multi-million dollar jury award is probably among the highest in the slip and fall/premises liability category in Virginia (VA) history, and the plaintiff was represented by Stephen Smith, of Hampton, Virginia...

• New Methods to Detect Brain Injury Explained

  Staff Writer | March 22, 2007 5:05 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  For the last several decades, doctors and hospitals have used a device called a pulse oximeter to measure the amount of oxygen in someone's blood during medical procedures and surgeries. The purpose of this device is to ensure that while the patient is unresponsive due to anesthesia, he does not suffer a brain injury because of loss of oxygen in the blood. The pulse...

• Man Dies of Severe Head Injury

  Shannon Weidemann | February 14, 2007 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  A carpenter working on the University of Tennessee's new aquatic center died after suffering severe head trauma on the worksite. The 53 year old man was found at the base of one of the walls.The Tennessee office of Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating, according to Milissa Reierson, communications director for TOSHA. Investigations take 4-6 weeks to complete, she...

• New Court Decision Holds Hotels Liable For Many Criminal Attacks

  Rick Shapiro | March 26, 2006 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  It is reasonable for the law to impose upon the innkeeper, and on the common carrier, a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect his guests against injury caused by the criminal conduct on the part of other guests or strangers if the danger of injury by such conduct is known to the innkeeper or reasonably foreseeable...." In March, 2006, the Virginia Supreme Court announced a...

• Electricity, Gas, Explosions--Special Rules Apply to Extremely Dangerous Activities

  Rick Shapiro | March 05, 2006 10:09 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Virginia follows some special tort rules when it comes to blasting, electricity, explosives and gas. Any person who is involved with explosive products or blasting activities must use use a high degree of care, corresponding to the dangers involved, to prevent injury to others. If this is violated, there is "strict liability" on the person or company involved with the explosives. The law...

• Common Questions About Head and Brain Injury

  Rick Shapiro | March 01, 2006 9:33 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  While there are pesonal injury cases where head or brain injury is diagnosed immediately, the more common scenario involves diagnosis through specialists well after the injury occurs. Some of the common questions are answered below.What is a traumatic head/brain injury?A traumatic brain/head injury is an injury to the brain caused by an outside force, which results in an impairment of a...