Car accidents are a leading cause of head and brain injuries. Brain injury can occur when the head has been impacted, usually by striking an object such as a windshield. Sometimes, the brain undergoes a sudden acceleration/deceleration movement (as in a whiplash injury) without any direct external trauma to the head. Many brain injuries are the result of bruising, bleeding, twisting, or tearing of brain tissue. Damage to the brain may occur at the time of the accident or develop over time as tissues swell and bleed within the head.

In the United States alone, over 1,000,000 people suffer from head injuries each year. Head impact injuries, especially "traumatic brain injuries," can leave the victim in varying states of debilitation. While blunt trauma to the skull is the most common cause of traumatic brain injury, prolonged lack of oxygen, or the "anoxic brain injury," also can have severe and life threatening consequences. With traumatic brain injury, the victim's brain may swell, bruise, and tear, while anoxic brain injury causes the brain cells to die from a lack of oxygen. Traumatic brain injury is more common than anoxic brain injury, but both injuries have similar consequences and treatments.

Handling traumatic brain injury cases not only requires legal expertise, but medical experts to substantiate the claims made for the experience and to testify ably. We have a nationwide bank of such experts with the ability to evaluate the traumatic brain injury and present qualified medical expert opinion at trial together with the diagnosis, prognosis, and causal connection of the injury to the subject accident. We also have our national team of forensic economists who are prepared to substantiate and project future loss as well as current and prior economic loss.

When selecting an attorney and law firm to handle a traumatic brain injury case, you must make sure that the firm has and is prepared to expend the necessary resources and money to present such a case to the fullest. In over 30 years of practice, we have collected hundreds of millions of dollars for thousands of clients. We have the demonstrated record of competence, ability, and stability to be there for you now, and when your case is settled or tried to verdict. Contact us at the Law Firm of Allen L. Rothenberg and we will be in touch with you within 48 hours with a full and FREE telephone conversation concerning the particular facts of your case and to offer our recommendations of what we can do for you.