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Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s year-end list of the top trial verdicts and settlements in the state highlights two Michigan Auto Law cases from 2015 — a $7 million Oakland County car accident and a $4.6 million Wayne County general personal injury case.
This common – and commonly misunderstood – problem impairs many car accident victims with TBI I’m an attorney who helps many people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) suffered from car wrecks. And I spend a lot of time helping people who suffer additional intense anxiety because so many people – including their doctors, families and …
During the Auto Crash Litigation 3.0 seminar, Gursten will explain how attorneys must understand the medicine behind brain injury to prove these difficult cases to defense lawyers and insurance adjusters Today I’ll be presenting again during the Auto Crash Litigation 3.0. conference in Las Vegas. My topic is “Maximizing Damages in the Brain Injury Case.” …
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Today I’ll be presenting in Kansas City, Missouri for the Kansas Association for Justice. I was asked to speak on the challenges of convincing adjusters and juries in motor vehicle accident and traumatic brain injury cases. So I’m tackling the challenging “mild” traumatic brain injury case, primarily the one that most injury lawyers will see …
As I brain injury lawyer, I see first-hand the complex symptoms of concussions and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the people I help. I also see how these injuries affect my clients for years after car accidents. I’ve written about how brain injuries such as concussions are related to chronic pain, memory problems, depression and …
I read a recent article in Bicycling Magazine called “Senseless” by Bruce Barcott. This isn’t just any quick hitter article on bicycle safety or on the importance of wearing bike helmets. In search of whether bicycle helmets truly do protect against the risk of concussion and brain injury, Barcott took an entire year and toured …
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Proposed rule changes for VA benefits for traumatic brain injury The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is now recognizing that traumatic brain injury (TBI) in wounded soldiers may pose serious future problems as well. This recognition based upon the new literature in brain injury and has important implications for lawyers helping people with TBI from …
Symptoms of brain injury that mimic ALS, and what this means for car accident victims The medical community has long suspected that traumatic brain injury can spark the onset and early onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gherig’s disease. A stunning paper published in 2010, however, argues that victims of …
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How to help juries to understand and empathize with an auto accident victim with commonly misunderstood injuries Why are so many people who suffer from TBI, or chronic pain, found so unlikeable by juries? And what things can you as a trial attorney do to help make your client more likeable so a jury will …
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