Michigan brain injury lawyer, CDC estimates 1.7 million traumatic brain injuries occur in the U.S. each year

Our Michigan brain injury lawyers are constantly learning and teaching other lawyers about new developments in the field of traumatic brain injury so we can better help our clients, many who also suffer from TBI from auto accidents.

I wanted to pass along  these new statistics from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on how common TBI is in the US, and who is most susceptible to brain injury.

Michigan Lawyers Weekly article on traumatic brain injury diagnosis with diffusion tensor imaging

Last week, I was on the front page of Michigan Lawyers Weekly in a very important story about traumatic brain injury diagnosis and imaging technology called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

The story was called Brain scan key for closed-head injury.

The topic, helping lawyers and juries understand the enormous challenges posed by many people who suffer brain injury, is critical. I’m glad the story was given this attention.

Michigan brain injury lawyer supports proposed legislation aimed at preventing concussion injuries to student athletes

Last week, SB 716 was introduced in the Michigan Senate. It requires public schools to adopt concussion and head injury information to protect student athletes and children with concussions.

Increased awareness has sharpened the spotlight on traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and concussions, and as a result, public schools and coaches from the littlest leagues to the NFL are now looking at the issue of brain injuries and sports.

Car accident victims with TBI fatigue easily and take longer to recover

I recently blogged about better ways for brain injury lawyers to help TBI survivors injured in car accidents.

Here are some interesting facts from a presentation I did for the Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer Litigation Group for American Association for Justice in Philadelphia. These are important facts about the connection between fatigue and brain damage that brain injury lawyers should know.

•    First and most importantly: Brain damaged patients tend to fatigue easily.

•    Easy fatigability can also be a chronic problem, and many brain damaged patients are fatigued most of the time.

Steve Gursten will be speaking to brain injury lawyers on higher settlements in auto accident cases and TBI

I’ll be speaking  this week in Las Vegas as part of the 360 Advocacy Institute’s Insurance, Settlement and Mediation conference seminar. My presentation is about teaching lawyers how to build damages in car accident injury cases involving traumatic brain injury (TBI), and how to settle these accident cases for more money with the insurance companies that evaluate them. I will also be moderating the program on Friday and Saturday.

This is an important seminar for injury lawyers, and it is always highly attended.

I’ll be speaking at the Michigan Association for Justice No-Fault insurance seminar today on how to help brain injury lawyers

Today I’ll be speaking to my fellow Michigan injury lawyers about updates in the law for auto accident victims with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This presentation is part of the Michigan Association for Justice Annual No-Fault Institute VIII, and will be in Southfield, Michigan.

My topic will cover new legal tactics and strategies that can help lawyers win traumatic brain injury lawsuits and better serve injured clients struggling with TBI after accidents.

Brain injury lawyer explains how Krohn v. Home-Owners will save auto insurance companies money — while devastating the hopes of people with TBI and spinal cord injuries

I was interviewed last week by the Associated Press on the new Michigan Supreme Court case of Kevin Krohn v. Home-Owners Insurance Co. This is a terrible case. I fear it will have devastating consequences for people with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injuries throughout Michigan.

Traumatic brain injury from a serious truck accident caused post traumatic seizures

I recently interviewed a new client who was being tested at U of M hospital for post-traumatic Parkinson’s and seizures following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from a truck accident.  The client is from Marquette, Michigan, and he has been driving all the way to U of M, as well as to MIND - the Michigan Institute for Neurological Disorders - following his injuries. 

Michigan brain injury attorney discusses a real example of living with a concussion, and how diffuse axonal injury can harm a car accident victim

As a traumatic brain injury attorney for almost 20 years, and one who speaks to other lawyers both in Michigan and nationally on the subject of representing people with brain injuries, it never fails to anger me  how defense insurance lawyers and insurance companies knowingly/fraudulently defend car accident TBI/brain injury cases by making junk science arguments.

Michigan brain injury lawyer dispels common defense and IME myths in car accident TBI cases

Recently one of the largest studies to date was released on the connection between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the increased risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease later in life.

The study will be helpful for  traumatic brain injury lawyers.  I write this because lately, one of the hot TBI defenses du jour from many of the more notorious defense doctors — hired by insurance companies to perform one-time evaluations (also called IMEs), and then write reports and testify in personal injury lawsuits — has been that a person cannot be of increased risk of dementia or Alzheimer’s unless the TBI is severe.  This study, released at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in France, clearly proves otherwise.