Brain Injuries

Victims of brain injuries often receive the largest personal injury verdicts because the results of brain injuries are usually catastrophic. A serious brain injury can permanently impair speech, comprehension, and movement or can even result in paralysis or death.

MR. ZUCKER: Brain injuries are typically the most serious types of injuries because the brain and the central nervous system controls all the nerves and muscles in our bodies, our ability to think, our ability to reason. In many instances to deal with brain injuries they’ve involved some sort of compromise of the blood flow to the brain. Now with adults it can come following a surgery or from a stroke that's not treated properly. There's a limited period of time after a stroke within which to give certain drugs to dissolve the clot and restore blood flow. We have a case currently where a patient underwent a heart bypass surgery and was not monitored properly. The oxygen saturation of the blood was compromised and the person suffered a serious brain injury. Depending on the severity of the injury, constant care, all sorts of mental physical handicaps can result. Typically those are the cases where the juries award the largest verdicts because they are, as I said, permanent, serious, lifetime injuries, and really tragic instances.