Chicago Brain Injury Lawyer Blog

Our Illinois brain injury lawyers know that besides being one of the most dangerous injuries to sustain, head trauma can also be difficult to detect. Unlike other types of harm that are immediately identifiable, many brain injuries are not readily apparent. The brain injuries can cause deterioration over time if not treated. Fortunately, there continue to be new medical advances that allow professionals to detect these earlier and provide treatment to prevent further harm. It is vital for all those in a position to prevent, identify, and or treat these injuries to do everything in their power to do so.

Market Watch reported on the new Illinois brain injury lawsuit which we previously discussed that suggests the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may be failing to protect players from suffering head injuries and getting the medical help that they need. The class-action lawsuit specifically alleges that the NCAA is neglecting its duty to protect college football players from concussions. The complaint filed this week in the case claims that the governing body of the NCAA has not done enough to discourage coaches from teaching tackling methods using the head and failing to screen for head injuries. In addition, the class-action lawsuit claims that the NCAA was failing to provide necessary financial support to those players who need medical assistance after they leave school.

We have long-reported on the steady stream of evidence that concussions occur much more frequently than many believe, and that many of the head injuries are never detected. High school and college athletes in certain high-impact sports—like football—are particularly likely to suffer concussions. When not detected, and therefore not properly treated, the long-term consequences can be severe. For example, experts have linked the head trauma to permanent brain damage, depression, early-onset Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other conditions.

The suit claims that while the NCAA implemented safety measures in the 1970s to address the issue, they have not adequately enforced those measures. Student-athletes are suffering as a result. The athletes initiating the suit claim that they want to force the NCAA to institute a medical monitoring program. The goal would be for the program to gauge the long-term effect of head trauma on athletes, and then allow those athletes to receive compensation for all of the medical costs associated with the injuries sustained while they were in college.

Our Chicago injury attorneys are well versed in the consequences of concussions. Far too many athletes face life-long problems because of injuries that they sustained while playing sports in school. It is incumbent upon all those involved in the safety of these players to do everything in their power to prevent the injuries, and provide all the necessary treatment when an injury does occur. If you or a loved one may have suffered one of these injuries that might have been prevented, please give our office a call and see how we might be able to help. The civil justice system can provide redress for the victims of these injuries and their families to provide for both the short and long-term consequences.

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Our Illinois brain injury attorneys just read a story about how there have been multiple violent encounters at a juvenile correctional center in the period of a just a week. During one of the recent fights over fifteen kids were involved and the guards had a lot of trouble breaking up the fight and several kids suffered personal injuries in that fight. The other fight that occurred in the same week involved about seven of the kids at the center. In addition to these fights that were so close to each other, the center has had other fights in the recent past that have caused worries among those in charge. Earlier this summer one boy was involved in an altercation and ended up suffering from a brain injury as a result of the hit to the head he suffered in the violent events at the correctional center.

The Oklahoma juvenile affairs department has called a meeting to discuss what can be done in these juvenile detention facilities in order to reduce the chances of more altercations like these from happening. According to News OK, one possibility that the department is considering is arming the security officers, with pepper spray and restraint devices, in the hopes that the personnel will at least be better prepared to stop any fights before any more kids get seriously injured. The high volume of fights is believed to be connected with the fact that the juveniles were recently moved out of a higher security facility, and into the current facility.

The fights have been pretty serious with kids throwing punches, kicking each other and rolling around on the ground, and a couple of kids have had to go to the hospital to have their injuries checked out because of the severity. With this level of violence occurring when fights break out at the correctional center, it is no surprise that the authorities are worried about what may happen to these kids if something is not done very soon. There has already been one brain injury and something must be done before there are any more of these serious injuries at the correctional center. Whether the victim and his family will file a personal injury lawsuit against the center alleging negligence in allowing the young man to be beaten to the point of suffering a brain injury is unknown at this time, but it may be a possibility since the center owes a certain duty of care to protect those young children that are under their supervision.

Our Chicago brain injury attorneys have helped out victims of brain injuries, and their families, recover monetary damages in connection with their lawsuits, and our goal is to make those responsible for causing another’s injuries be held responsible for what they have done. If you or a loved one suffered a severe personal injury that you believe was due to negligence on the part of someone else, please do not hesitate to contract our Illinois personal injury attorneys right away to discuss what possible options are available to you and to you family.

Our Chicago brain injury attorneys are excited to hear that the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center has started using a new brain injury machine that was designed to help diagnose and help treat traumatic brain injuries and post traumatic brain injuries. This new machine uses a combination of MRI scanning and PET scanning which can show any problems or anything that is abnormal (MRI) and then check on the metabolic activity of any of these problems (PET), and this new machine is called a Biograph mMR. The ability to determine if something is wrong in the victim’s brain and what the problem in the brain is doing can greatly help doctors figure out what exactly is wrong with a patient and help determine what the best next step should be in order to help the patient recover as fully as possible. The goal is to help doctors diagnose more quickly, hopefully catching certain problems very early on. According to Next Gov, this new machine and technology are also safer than other forms of traumatic brain injury treatments.

This new device was recently approve by the Food and Drug Administration and has just recently started to be used to help patients. In addition to helping with traumatic brain injuries, the machine also aims to help with the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. The ability to help out with post-traumatic stress disorder is hopefully something that can be used to help with troops that have suffered from this problem, and to help them get better.

Traumatic brain injuries are often times caused by a fall or a hit to the head or some other incident that causes the brain to be jarred and hit into the skull. This type of brain injury may be slight or may be very severe. Traumatic brain injuries can be permanent and can require a great deal of medical care and rehabilitation for the victim of the injury. The hope with this new machine is that with certain traumatic brain injury cases the doctor may be able to better understand what exactly was happened and what exactly is wrong, and hopefully the victims may be able to recover more fully from their injury if more is understood about what is wrong.

Our Chicago brain injury attorneys are so happy to hear that this new technology may be able to help victims of traumatic brain injuries and their families get their loved one back to more of who they were before the injury. We have seen many families suffer with the effects that a traumatic brain injury can have on the family, and hope that this new machine can offer help to many of these families.

If you or a loved one suffered from a traumatic brain injury that was the result of another person’s negligence, please contact our Illinois personal injury lawyers today to talk about what options may be available to you. We have helped clients recover millions of dollars in damages in connection with their traumatic brain injury lawsuits, and can help your family receive the compensation that you deserve for all that you have suffered through.

Our Chicago brain injury attorneys recently read about a brain injury lawsuit in which the three victims of a regatta accident have sued the organizers of the Madison Regatta alleging that their negligence led to the severe personal injuries that they suffered following an accident that left them with brain injuries. The victims of the accident claim that because of the way that the course was set up, it was unsafe for the competitors and that is what led to the accident this summer. The accident occurred when one of the people participating in the regatta lost control of his boat and it hydroplaned and slammed into a rescue boat that was there for the event. The victims claim that the safety boat was in the wrong location and that if the boat had been where it should be the accident would not have been as serious as it was. The multiple people that were hurt in the accident suffered a variety of severe injuries.

According to WLKY, one of the victims was in the hospital for three weeks and had to learn how to walk again, and another victim received a severe head injury that resulted in a brain injury that affected his memory. The personal injuries resulted in a large amount of medical bills for the victims, and they will likely continue to require physical therapy in order to fully recover. The brain injury lawsuit was filed not only against the organizers of the Regatta but also against the governing body of the Regatta event and against the driver of the boat that hydroplaned and the boat driver’s team.

According to the brain injury lawsuit there were concerns prior to the event that the venue where the Regatta was held might not be as safe as it should be, and there were worries that there could be an accident at the event. The victims say that in addition to seeking damages for their injuries and to cover the expenses connected with the accident, they want the Regatta organization to be forced to take responsibility for their negligence actions. The victims hope that the lawsuit will force the Regatta team to change their safety precautions and keep this type of incident from ever occurring again.

Our Illinois brain injury attorneys hope that the victims of the accident get the compensation that they deserve and that the Regatta company takes responsibilities for their actions. Our personal injury law firm has helped out victims all over the state of Illinois recover millions of dollars as monetary compensation for their injuries and our goal is to help out victims of other people’s negligence and help them achieve the justice that they deserve. If you or a loved one were the victim of a brain injury and you feel that a brain injury lawsuit should be filed against the person responsible for the injury, please do not hesitate to contact our Illinois personal injury attorneys today.

Our Chicago brain injury attorneys recently learned about a settlement in a case in which a law student filed a brain injury lawsuit against the city of Tucson, after the student suffered severe injuries when they were struck by a car. The brain injury lawsuit alleged that the victim was riding her bike across her campus when a car that was turning at an intersection struck her. The victim suffered severe physical injuries from the hit and suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of the injuries. While the driver of the car was responsible for hitting the bike rider, the city is being sued because of the design of the intersection where the accident occurred. According to AZ Star Net, the complaint alleges that the intersection was nearly 80 years old and is not of the design that intersections are typically designed today. The intersection has a very sharp angle, which makes it very difficult to see pedestrians and bike riders when driving or turning at the intersection. The victim of the accident believed that it was because of the design of the intersection that the car accident occurred, and not just because of the negligence of the driver of the car.

The brain injury lawsuit was just recently settled in favor of the law student that suffered from brain injuries for $675,000. The amount of damages seeks to cover the brain injury victim’s medical expenses, both past and present, any other bills associated with the car accident and the injury, as well as attempts to offer some compensation to the brain injury victim for all of the pain and suffering that she has had to deal with because of the injury. Many plaintiffs also seek pain and suffering compensation to try to offer the victim compensation for what they now have to deal with permanently as a result of the negligence of another.

In this case, as well as in many personal injury lawsuits, there is not just one person to blame for the accident. It is likely that the combination of the design of the intersection, as well as the lack of attention on the part of the driver of the car that struck the victim, were both responsible for the car accident. When more than one person is responsible for one’s personal injuries, the victim may be able to sue the multiple parties for damages in connection with the accident. If you were injured in an accident where the city may have been responsible for what caused your injury, you may be able to sue the city for your personal injury.

If you or a loved one suffered a brain injury and you feel that it was due to the negligence of another person or other people, please contact our Illinois personal injury law firm today. Our Chicago personal injury attorneys have helped clients all over Illinois receive millions of dollars in damages in connection with their brain injury cases. We are here to talk to you about what has happened to you to cause your injury and to talk to you about what next steps are available.

Our Chicago brain injury attorneys were interested to read about a statement that was just issued by the American Academy of Pediatricians, in which they stated that the group did not consider boxing a safe sport for children or teenagers to play. According to CBS News, the leading pediatricians found that boxing was a sport that had a very high rate of concussions, and that because of the risk of concussions in the sport that it was not safe for younger people to play. The group also believes that even the use of head protection does not eliminate the risk of concussions, and that the sport is not safe for kids or teenagers even when they use head protection for boxing.

The reason that the risk of repetitive concussions is a worry for pediatricians is that there is a great deal of scientific evidence that repetitive concussions can lead to severe and permanent brain injuries later in life. Many former athletes have developed later in life brain injuries after being involved in sports where they suffered from multiple blows to the head. Following any blow to the head, everyone needs to be thoroughly checked out by a doctor to see if they suffered from a concussion, or another type of head injury, and any athlete that suffers from a hit should only be allowed to go back on the field, ring, or court once they have been cleared by a doctor who has determined that it is safe for them to return to play. If a victim of a blow to the head gets right back in the game, when their body did not have time to recover fully, there is a much higher risk that another hit could leave that person with a severe or permanent brain injury.

Pediatricians worry about this problem with sports and head injuries even more so with children and teenagers. The reason for this heightened concern with concussions in children is that because younger people’s brains are not as fully developed as older individuals and can be much more susceptible to head and brain damage. Because of the level of brain development in younger people, the damage from concussions can be more severe and the healing time for the body to completely recover post concussion is often much longer than it would be for an adult.

The combination of the danger that multiple concussions can have on children or teenagers with the high risk of head hits associated with boxing, is what led pediatricians to release the statement that, according to them, boxing is not considered a safe sport for children and teenagers. Many boxing advocates feel that boxing can be a good outlet for younger people and that the risks associated with the sport are not strong enough of a reason to entirely discourage kids and teenagers from boxing. If you or a loved one have a child that has suffered a brain injury from receiving a hit to the head and then being sent right back out to play without receiving medical clearance, please contact our Illinois personal injury attorneys to discuss the options available.

Our Illinois brain injury attorneys recently learned that a former Eastern Illinois University football player has filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) claiming that the association failed to protect college athletes, such as himself, from brain injuries associated with repetitive concussions. The brain injury lawsuit alleges that the college sporting association was negligent in allowing the players to receive concussions and then get right back on the field shortly after their head injury.

The brain injury lawsuit is one in which the former player hopes to establish a class action lawsuit, meaning that he wants to join other former college athletes in his lawsuit to also give them the opportunity to recover for any damages they suffered as a result of the sporting association’s negligence. The amount that the brain injury and negligence lawsuit is seeking from the association is not known at this point but will likely not only seek damages for medical expenses but also for pain and suffering that has resulted from this negligence. This brain injury lawsuit is similar to the ones that are being filed by many former National Football League players against the League, alleging that they have developed permanent head and brain injuries because of the years of concussions they suffered and because the League allowed them to play with these severe head injuries.

According to The Associated Press, the specific brain injuries that the individual former college athlete has suffered have led him to have trouble finishing his college degree. The player received multiple concussions while he was a player for the team, and kept being sent back out on the field without the proper and appropriate testing that he needed. It was not until after the player starting suffering from seizures that the team decided to send the player to a doctor to be further tested, and that is when it was discovered that he had suffered brain damage while a player on the team.

In addition to seeking damages for the injuries that he has suffered, both physically and emotionally, the football player that has filed the brain injury lawsuit alleges that he filed the lawsuit in order to try and get the association to change the policies and procedures that are in place whenever a player suffers from a concussion. The former player claims that he wants the association to realize the danger that they are placing their players in when it comes to concussions, and wants the association to make changes that will protect future college athletes from the brain injuries that he and many other former players have suffered from while playing football.

Our Chicago personal injury attorneys have helped out victims of brain injuries all over the state of Illinois. When you suffer a personal injury and someone else is responsible for your injury, you may be able to file a personal injury lawsuit against the person of institution that was responsible to compensate you for what you have had to experience as a result of their negligence. If you or a loved one have suffered from a brain injury that was due to someone’s negligence, please contact our Chicago brain injury attorneys to discuss your case and talk about what options are available to you or to your loved ones.

Our Illinois brain injury attorneys recently learned of a brain injury/wrongful death lawsuit that was filed by the mother of the victim of negligence that died while he was supposed to be receiving treatment at a drug rehabilitation center. The young man had been in the center for only two days when he died of hypoxic brain injury following what is believed to have been an over dosage of a medicine as well as an allergy to that same medication that he was being given at the rehabilitation center. The wrongful death lawsuit alleges that not only was he given medications that his body was not reacting well to and too much of that medicine, but that he was not monitored or paid attention to even after he was clearly reacting negatively to the medication.

Once the brain injury/wrongful death lawsuit was filed, family members of other patients from the facility also spoke out about all their problems with the drug rehabilitation center. Allegedly, other patients were also over-medicated and not monitored properly, and at least one of these other patients died as a result of this alleged negligence on the part of the rehab center. According to The Tennessean, the rehab center has just spent a great deal of money on expanding the rehab center and the center is the largest in the state. In addition to the claim that the patients are not medicated properly and are not monitored properly, many patients and their families feel that the center was severely understaffed, which could also add to the lack of monitoring patients issue. As a result of the issues that have been reported in connection with this facility, the state has at least temporarily stopped sending underage drug abusers to this particular facility for treatment. The fact that this kind of negligence may be occurring, and that patients may not actually be receiving the help they need, is very upsetting especially at a center that has the resources available to really be able to help their patients with their drug addictions.

The young man’s hypoxic brain injury may have resulted directly from the over-medication and from him not being monitored properly. A hypoxic brain injury occurs when the flow of oxygen to the brain is disrupted, and in this young man’s case that disruption was too severe and led to his death. If he was receiving too much medication, or the wrong medication for his body, a hypoxic brain injury could result. The rehab center claims that if the victim’s medical records were viewed that it would be clear that he was treated properly and that his death was not the result of the center’s negligence. However, the rehabilitation center will not release the victim’s medical records for what they claim is a confidentiality issue.

The wrongful death lawsuit seeks about $13 million dollars in damages for the family of the young man that died while a patient at the rehab center. This amount of money seeks to offer some type of compensation to the family that has had to suffer as a result of the negligence on the part of the drug center. If you or your loved one was at a facility that was supposed to be helping and monitoring their patients, and their failure to do so led to an injury or even death of a patient, please contact our Illinois personal injury attorneys to talk about what has happened to your family and to see what options may be available to you.

Our Chicago personal injury attorneys, Steven Levin and Michael Bonamarte, recently helped the family of a victim of a wrongful death reach a $975,000 settlement after the victim fell off of a porch, where the railing was not up code, and then later died as a result of his personal injuries. The mother of the victim brought the wrongful death lawsuit against the management company of the building where the porch was located, alleging that because of the management company’s negligence the young man fell onto the concrete below (from two stories up) and then died as a result of his severe head and brain injuries. The tragic fall occurred in the summer of 2007, while the victim was hanging out on the porch at his girlfriend’s apartment in downtown Chicago, and the victim died as a result of his injuries in January of 2008.

The wrongful death lawsuit alleged that the management company for the girlfriend’s building failed to keep the premises in a reasonable and safe condition, and because of this failure, the victim fell from the porch. The lawsuit was filed in January of 2008, but the settlement was just this week approved for $975,000 for the family of the victim. The mother of the victim filed this lawsuit against the building managers with the hope of saving other families from having to go through the pain and the suffering that she has had to deal with as a result of her son’s untimely death. Building managers and landlords of all buildings have certain responsibilities and certain duties that are owed to the tenants, and to the tenant’s guests, and when this level of care is not met, the parties responsible must be held liable for the damage that results. When a building has a balcony and porch with a railing, that railing must be up to code and safe for people to stand near it, and it is the building managements or landlord’s duty to make sure that the railing is up to code and is safe to stand near. In this specific instance, the lawsuit alleged that the railing was ten inches shorter than the mandatory railing height requirement that is set out by the city of Chicago.

This case, like far too many other personal injury lawsuits, could easily have been avoided if the management company had not acted negligently in maintaining the building they were responsible for. Because of the company’s negligence, this young man died and his family has to deal with pain of losing their son when he was so young. If you or a loved one suffered a personal injury from a fall, or if someone you loved died as a result of a management company or landlord’s negligence, please do not hesitate to contact our Illinois personal injury lawyers today. Our attorneys have helped out clients all over Illinois, including this mother who lost her young son, and our attorneys are here to talk to you about your case and help to see what possible next steps you should take and what options are available to you and your family.

Our brain injury attorneys were interested to learn about a case in which a professional baseball player has been sued by his friend after the friend fell off of the player’s back deck at his house and suffered from severe physical injuries as well as a traumatic brain injury. According to The Houston Chronicle, the brain injury lawsuit names not only the baseball player, who plays for the Atlanta Braves, but also names the building contractor and the home inspector as parties. The personal injury lawsuit alleges that the negligence on the part of some or all of the parties made the deck railing unsafe for people to lean against, and in turn led the victim to suffer all of the physical injuries that he did.

The victim in this brain injury lawsuit was friendly with the player and was over at his house and was hanging out on the deck, which was on the second story of the house. He claims to have leaned on the railing and fallen through the railing, and fell around fifteen feet to the concrete ground. As a result of this fall, the man suffered the traumatic brain injury, and other physical injuries including fractures to his spine. The victim alleges in the lawsuit that the fall would not have happened if the railing had been installed properly and therefore that all of his injuries are because of the negligence on the part of someone responsible for the building of the house, the deck, and the railing.

Traumatic brain injuries are brain injuries that occur from some type of event, where the head is hit or jarred. This type of injury is different from a brain birth injury or a brain injury that is the result of an illness. Traumatic brain injuries are typically associated with a traumatic event, often times a fall, like in this specific personal injury lawsuit. A traumatic brain injury could result in all different types of physical issues for the victim, and depends on what part of the brain was affected, and upon how serious the injury was to the head that led to the brain injury. Depending on the severity of the traumatic brain injury, the recovery process may vary. In very serious cases, the victim may face a lifetime of therapy and recovery. In this type of personal injury case, the medical bills may be very high and many victims have trouble covering these costs, especially since they may be unable to work as a result of the severe head injuries.

If you or a loved one suffered from a traumatic brain injury as the result of someone's negligence and have ongoing medical bills and continuous pain and suffering from the injury, you may have a possible personal injury negligence lawsuit that can be filed against the parties responsible for the personal injury. Our Chicago based personal injury lawyers have helped clients all over Illinois with their personal injury and brain injury lawsuits and have recovered millions of dollars for the clients in order to help compensate them for what all they have been through.

Our Illinois brain injury attorneys recently learned about a lawsuit in which the victim and her family are suing her former university, the state school board, several companies associated with a fraternity, the young girl’s sorority, as well as multiple other people in connection with the brain injuries that the young woman sustained in a fall that occurred two years ago. The brain injury lawsuit alleges that the sophomore student was a sorority sister that was at a party, with her sorority, at a fraternity house when she fell from three flights up out of a window. The brain injury lawsuit is against the fraternity for failing to keep the fraternity house safe enough to prevent people from falling from the windows and also for allowing underage students to drink on the premises without questioning them about whether they were of legal drinking age.

According to The Standard-Examiner, the young girl was laying in a bunk bed that belonged to a member of the fraternity, with the fraternity brother, that was pressed right up against the window when she fell the three stories, and the window did not have any preventative measures on it to ensure that someone would not easily fall out of the window. The brain injury lawsuit also alleges that the fraternity and its members did not do anything to keep underage people from drinking in the house, and acted negligently in allowing minors to consume alcohol on the premises.

The brain injury lawsuit is not only against the fraternity, but includes the university that the students were enrolled in , since they require students to live on campus and therefore were negligent in allowing the unsafe windows in the fraternity house, and that the university owed the students a duty of care that included making sure that all windows were protected and safe to be around. The young girl’s sorority was also named in the brain injury lawsuit because the sorority has a policy that they will monitor and make sure that underclassmen do not consume alcohol, and in this particular case there is no evidence that any of the older sisters attempted to stop the underage sorority sister from drinking on the night the brain injury occurred.

The victim’s injuries include a traumatic brain injury, as well as other physical injuries, and she has been working hard ever since the fall occurred to learn how to speak and walk again, and is trying to get back to having a normal lifestyle. The brain injury lawsuit seeks damages for the girl’s medical bills, for travel expenses (since her parents did not live in the area), and for other pain and suffering damages associated with the terrible incident.

If you or a loved one suffered a brain injury as a result of the negligence of another, or of a group of people, please contact our Illinois personal injury attorneys to find out what options you may have available to you to receive compensation from the parties that are responsible for your personal injuries. Our Chicago brain injury attorneys have helped clients out all over Illinois, and are here and ready to hear about what has happened to you and help you get the justice that you deserve.

Our Chicago brain injury attorneys were saddened by the news that a young college football player has died as a result of head and brain injuries that he sustained on the field during football practice. The traumatic brain injury occurred sometime during football practice at his college, and the victim’s parents and teammates are not sure exactly what happened during the routine practice that caused the severe brain damage that led to the young man’s death. The young athlete was hospitalized following the head injury and died as a result of those injuries, close to a week after the incident.

While the victim’s family is not positive as to what exactly was the cause of the brain injury, the family is sure that the injury was the result of head trauma and not due to any type of existing condition. According to The New York Times, the family of the victim stated that the victim had always been very healthy and had suffered no serious medical problems in the past. The victim’s parents did not know of any concussions that their son had experienced in the past, and were not aware of any specific instances of head trauma. The young athlete’s teammates that were present at the time the head trauma occurred said that the victim complained of feeling dizzy and woozy, and then collapsed after he was helped off of the field. The young man was then taken to the hospital where he later died from complications from his traumatic brain injury.

This particular incident is especially of concern to our brain injury attorneys because while head injuries and death are often linked to football, boxing, and other sports that involve serious physical contact and hits to the head, most injuries of this time do not occur in college aged athletes. This type of severe brain injury is most commonly found in high school athletes under the age of 18, and some older athletes that have suffered years of brain damage. The reason that head and brain injuries of this type are not as common in athletes of the college age is that teenagers tend to be more susceptible to hits to the head, and are more likely to develop swelling and brain bleeds, even more so athletes that are slightly older. This type of tragic brain injury and death occurring in someone the victim’s age is very upsetting and has many brain injury specialists confused.

At this point it is not clear whether the family will be filing a brain injury lawsuit against the school, or the doctors, or anyone else, and the family’s main goal right now is to figure out what happened to their son and to try and warn others so that other families do not have to go through this same terrible trauma that they have suffered through. Our Chicago brain injury attorneys at our personal injury law firm have helped victims of traumatic brain injuries, and their families, throughout the difficult time following these tragic injuries and are here to discuss what has happened to you or your loved one and what possible options are available.

Our Illinois brain injury attorneys recently read that Warner Brothers production studios had a brain injury lawsuit filed against them by a stunt double who was cast in their movie, Hangover 2. The personal injury lawsuit alleges that the stunt double was riding in a truck that was moving very fast, while they were filming a scene for the movie, and another car crashed in to the truck that the stunt double was riding in. The reason that the victim alleges negligence on the part of the production company is that the victim believes that the stunt called for the car to be moving at a speed that was too fast to be safe for the stunt double to have to ride in the car. The lawsuit alleges that had the company set a lower speed for the car to be moving at, that the victim would not have suffered the severe brain injuries that he did as a result of the car accident.

The stunt double suffered the injury back in December of 2010 and is said to have been in a hospital or rehabilitation center in Thailand (where the movie was being filmed) ever since the accident first occurred. The brain injury lawsuit seeks damages for the stunt double’s medical bills, rehabilitation expenses, and for expected costs for treatment that will be necessary because of the extensive level of his head and brain injuries. The personal injury lawsuit also seeks money damages on behalf of the stunt double’s domestic partner, because she has remained in Thailand since his injury to be with him and to take care of him, and has been unable to work.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the brain injury has left the stunt double with brain trauma, with speech impediments, with multiple seizures, and with physical injuries. Given the extent of these severe head injuries, and that the damage is still very present nine months after the accident, the brain injury lawsuit seeks damages for continual care for the victim. While the lawsuit was just recently filed, and no definite numbers have been released in terms of the damages that the victim and his domestic partner are seeking, the production company has stated that they are offering their support and want to work together with the plaintiffs to try to solve any of the issues that the plaintiffs have with the production company.

Often times employees are injured while they are on the job, due to negligence on the part of their employer. Employers have a duty to make sure that their employees are working in a safe environment, and a duty to protect them from known dangers that the employee may encounter while working. When an employer is negligent and places the employee in a position where the employee has to do something that is dangerous and then the employee is injured, the employer will likely be found liable for causing the employee’s personal injuries. Our Chicago based personal injury law firm has helped clients all over Illinois that were injured as a result of their employer’s negligence and our Chicago brain injury attorneys are here to hear your story and discuss with you what options are available.

Our Illinois brain injury attorneys recently learned of a brain injury lawsuit that resulted in a verdict for the injured party for over $12 million dollars. The lawsuit was filed against a truck company by a driver that was severely injured after one of the company’s trucks lost its rear axle, which then crashed into to the victim’s car. When the victim’s car was struck, he suffered from a head injury as well as injuries to his spinal cord. The victim’s head injuries resulted in a traumatic brain injury and the victim now suffers from memory loss, a change in personality, has trouble concentrating, and has trouble paying attention. The traumatic brain injury lawsuit alleged that because of the truck company’s negligence in allowing the truck to be on the road with the axle loose, the brain injury victim suffered these injuries, most of which will continue to bother him throughout his lifetime.

The brain injury lawsuit sought compensation for the medical bills that the victim has already incurred, and for the medical bills he will continue to have to pay as a result of his severe brain injuries, as well as sought money for his loss of wages. According to About Lawsuits, the victim had to leave his job as an airline mechanic because of the permanent injuries that he sustained in the car accident. The trucking company claimed that the victim’s injuries were not as bad as he was claiming, and that he was not really suffering from the traumatic brain injury and chronic pain that the lawsuit alleged. However, the jury at the brain injury trial determined that the victim was not misrepresenting his injuries, and found for the victim, and the trucking company will be required to pay over $12 million dollars in total damages in connection with the negligence lawsuit.

Unfortunately, many traumatic brain injuries (which are brain injuries that are caused by hard hit or shaking of the brain against the skull) result from car accidents and can require a great deal of care throughout the victim’s lifetime. Aside from the medical costs associated with this type of injury, since the brain is affected many victims suffer personality and emotional changes in addition to the physical pain and suffering that results from the injury. Because of this, most brain injury lawsuits seek not only damages for physical pain but also for the emotional pain that the victim and their family suffers through because of the brain injury.

If you or a loved one has suffered a brain injury as a result of another person or company’s negligence, you may be entitled to recover damages from the party responsible. Our personal injury law firm has helped clients all over Illinois recover millions of dollars in damages based on their brain injury lawsuits. Our Chicago based brain injury attorneys are available at any time to talk to you about your injury and to discuss what possible next steps may be available to you and your loved ones, so please do not hesitate to call our offices today!

Our Illinois brain injury attorneys are very interested by the new Illinois law requiring all student athletes to be cleared by a doctor, when they show any signs of a concussion, before they are allowed back in the game or on the field. This new law was adopted earlier this year to be effective immediately, and with the new school year beginning and a new high school football season starting, this concussion law will hopefully begin to reduce the number of long term brain injuries suffered by football players who get hit in the head again before they are fully recovered from a previous concussion. Although the law itself is new to the state of Illinois, 27 other states have already adopted a similar type of law and many Illinois schools had similar policies in place in order to help protect their students that were showing signs of a concussion after receiving a hit to the head.

This law, and similar policies that were implemented by schools prior to this new Illinois law going into effect, come in the wake of the realization that many serious brain injuries in football players were linked to the players suffering years of concussions. Up until just recently football players were usually sent back on the field shortly after suffering a possible concussion, and recent studies have shown that this may have been what caused a great number of long-term severe brain damage and in some cases even death. According to The Chicago Tribune, the number of school age children coming into the emergency room for concussions has drastically increased, and more children have been receiving the treatment that they needed, likely because of the increased awareness of the possible danger of repeated concussions that are not handled appropriately.

Upon learning of the danger of not fully checking out an athlete following a hit to the head, many coaches, teachers, parents and school boards have fought for and implemented changes in schools. While it was a great start for schools to take action, our Illinois personal injury attorneys were very happy to learn that Illinois lawmakers decided to take more action and implement a concussion law for the state of Illinois. This statewide law will hopefully injure that all student athletes are treated properly following a head injury and greatly reduce the number of brain injuries suffered by our Illinois athletes.

As the new school year begins, our Illinois brain injury attorneys feel much better knowing that student athletes in Illinois will have to be cleared by a doctor after suffering any hit to the head that appears to have caused a concussion. The law will also offer more concussion education and awareness in the school system. The law does not aim to stop players that are safe to go back on the field from being able to play, but hopefully will keep players that need to remain out of the game off the field until their injury has had time to heal. Brain injuries that are preventable, such as ones that result from numerous blows to the head in sports, are especially upsetting because they could have been avoided if only the proper precautions were taken and that is why this law is so important. Our Illinois personal injury lawyers hope to see less of these preventable brain injuries as a result of the new law.