Traumatic Brain Injuries
If you or a loved one suffered a brain injury because of a negligent truck driver, The Law Firm for Truck Safety can help you recover the compensation you deserve.
If you or a loved one suffered a brain injury at the hands of a negligent commercial vehicle driver, The Law Firm for Truck Safety can help you recover the compensation you are entitled to.
Paving a Path to Justice After Your Brain Injury
For truck accident victims who have suffered a devastating brain injury, the path to prosperity — regaining hope, rebuilding your life, and finding answers — is a difficult path to walk. However, it is not a path you must walk alone. For nearly 30 years, The Law Firm for Truck Safety’s truck crash attorneys have been fighting for those whose lives have been upended in an unimaginable and sudden semi-truck crash.
If you or a loved one sustained a traumatic brain or head injury during a truck wreck, we invite you to share your story with us.
Our Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Case Results
In the courtroom, we fiercely champion our clients’ stories, helping them receive the maximum compensation possible for their truck accident injuries. Our firm’s record results include being lead counsel for two brain-injured teens who received $42.4 Million, the largest truck crash verdict ever rendered in Ohio.
$34M Settlement
$8.5M Verdict
Regardless of what your traumatic brain injury looks like, relearning your physical and mental capabilities while rediscovering yourself is an emotionally arduous journey — not only for truck crash victims but for their friends and family as well.
As experienced truck crash attorneys, we understand the physical, emotional, and financial toll that a brain injury can have on a person's life.
During this time, please know that you are not alone. While we are a team of experienced truck crash attorneys, we are people first. And, as people — whether inside or outside of the courtroom — we are here to lend our strength, courage, and support to you and your family during this difficult time.
During this time, please know that you are not alone. While we are a team of experienced truck crash attorneys, we are people first. And, as people — whether inside or outside of the courtroom — we are here to lend our strength, courage, and support to you and your family during this difficult time.
We empathize with the devastating impact of brain injuries caused by truck accidents. Let us stand by you and your loved ones, providing unwavering support both in and out of court. Share your story with us today.
Referrals & Co-Counsel
Involved in a Crash?
No other law firm knows trucks quite like us. Our trucking law expertise and trial experience allow us to win multi-million-dollar results year after year.
Our team of truck accident attorneys works tirelessly to help your family find justice in the wake of a catastrophic truck crash.
Referrals & Co-Counsel
No other law firm knows trucks quite like us. Our trucking law expertise and trial experience allow us to win multi-million-dollar results year after year.
Involved in a Crash?
Our team of truck accident attorneys works tirelessly to help your family find justice in the wake of a catastrophic truck crash.
Finding the Best Traumatic Brain and Head Injury Lawyer for You
Our team of truck crash attorneys has the experience, expertise, and empathy needed to champion your story and pursue justice to its fullest extent. When truck crash victims enlist The Law Firm for Truck Safety to fight for them, they are enlisting a team of attorneys who provide care and support that extends far beyond the courtroom.
When The Law Firm for Truck Safety represents your brain injury case, you will receive the support of attorneys who:
Consistently win multi-million-dollar settlements and verdicts for their clients.
Every client, every story, we fight hard to help our truck crash victims receive results that mitigate or eliminate the financial burdens associated with truck crash injuries. Our commitment to our clients and our resolve to hold negligent trucking companies accountable has allowed us to receive multi-million-dollar results for our clients year after year.
Keep a small caseload.
We limit our practice to exclusively represent those with serious trucking injuries. Being selective in this way allows our truck crash attorneys to dedicate the time, attention, and resources needed to drill down into the facts of your traumatic brain injury case and build a customized case strategy for your head injury claim. This focused approach to litigation and commitment to our clients regularly translates to maximum results in the courtroom.
Build a case strategy around your specific needs.
In addition to receiving maximum compensation for your case, you will most likely want answers, accountability, and assurances that what happened to you or your loved one doesn’t happen to someone else.
Essential to our firm’s goal — to help you heal — is to make those your goals for justice priorities in your case strategy. We strive to understand what justice means to you, specifically, and we will lend our support and knowledge to help you make those goals a reality— even when those efforts take us beyond the courtroom.
Hold Trucking Companies Accountable.
At the core, many of the truck crashes that result in severe head and traumatic brain injuries are due to systemic safety failures within the trucking industry.
Inside the courtroom, it is our firm’s mission to hold accountable these negligent drivers and motor carriers for the harm they have caused you and your family. Outside the courtroom, we work with safety and advocacy groups that are committed to rebuilding the trucking industry. These two things, together, help us build safer roads by removing safety hazards on our roads, one dangerous truck driver and one dangerous trucking company at a time.
When we make the trucking industry safer, we make our roads and our communities safer as well.
Set you up for and help you maintain success.
As you begin to move forward from your truck accident, you may find that your crash affects your life in ways you may not have initially anticipated. We want to be there for you when this happens, and we strive to create relationships with clients that last a lifetime.
Whether it’s helping you financially plan for the future, championing your story, supporting your endeavors to become an advocate for truck safety reform, or something else, know that the support you receive from our team will be available long after your case comes to a close.
Take the first step on your path to justice.
The Law Firm for Truck Safety’s truck accident attorneys are here to help you find answers, pursue justice, and receive the compensation you deserve for your brain injury.
Connect with a Law Firm for Truck Safety attorney today.
Common Types of Brain Injuries Sustained in Catastrophic Truck Accidents
Vehicles like tractor-trailers, busses, tanker trucks, and other types of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) inherently carry a greater risk of harm to other drivers on the road. The level of care, attention, and knowledge needed to safely drive a CMV is higher, as a result.
When a truck driver fails to uphold these critical safe driving standards, this negligence can leave you and your loved one with a brain or head injury that has life-long physiological and financial consequences.
Types of traumatic brain injuries commonly seen in serious truck wrecks include:
- Penetrating Brain Injury: This occurs when an object penetrates the brain. In truck crashes, these objects can include vehicle debris, cargo, or the commercial motor vehicle itself.
- Secondary Brain Injury: Secondary brain injuries occur when the initial crash trauma causes physiological disruptions that affect the blood-brain barrier disrupting the delicate balance of the brain’s chemistry. Some secondary brain injuries interfere with blood flow resulting in insufficient oxygen in the brain. Others can cause cerebral edema – swelling of the brain – and raise the intracranial pressure, which, when too high, can be fatal.
- Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI): If a truck crash is forceful enough, it can tear the brain’s connecting fibers (axons) causing a diffuse axonal injury. When this happens, the resulting DAI can leave crash victims in a coma and/or severely impede their brain functions.
- Brain Hemorrhage: Bleeding in and around the brain is life-threatening. Brain hemorrhages are often labeled based on where the bleeding occurs (intracranial hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, etc.)
- Penetrating Brain Injury: This occurs when an object penetrates the brain. In truck crashes, these objects can include vehicle debris, cargo, or the commercial motor vehicle itself.
- Secondary Brain Injury: Secondary brain injuries occur when the initial crash trauma causes physiological disruptions that affect the blood-brain barrier disrupting the delicate balance of the brain’s chemistry.
Some secondary brain injuries interfere with blood flow resulting in insufficient oxygen in the brain. Others can cause cerebral edema – swelling of the brain – and raise the intracranial pressure, which, when too high, can be fatal.
- Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI): If a truck crash is forceful enough, it can tear the brain’s connecting fibers (axons) causing a diffuse axonal injury. When this happens, the resulting DAI can leave crash victims in a coma and/or severely impede their brain functions.
- Brain Hemorrhage: Bleeding in and around the brain is life-threatening. Brain hemorrhages are often labeled based on where the bleeding occurs (intracranial hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, etc.)
For many families, the financial means and subsequent quality of care received after their family member’s brain injury is often determined by the knowledge and experience of the truck accident lawyer fighting for them in the courtroom.
The days following a truck crash are critical for the success of your brain injury lawsuit.
When you hire our personal injury lawyers to champion your story, we will immediately:
Preserve crash scene evidence
We immediately work to find and preserve evidence, locate law enforcement reports, video recordings, audio recordings, and interview witnesses.
Partner with experts
One of our greatest strengths as a firm is our ability to manage the many legal and medical ramifications of brain injuries caused by truck crashes. We carefully consult with the medical professionals who treat our clients. We do this because it is crucial to the success of your case that we understand the diagnosis and prognosis of your head injury and can convey this information to jurors who will need it to render a fair verdict.
Insist on the maximum compensation
Unlike other personal injury law firms, we prepare every case for the courtroom. Our goal is to help you receive maximum compensation for the emotional, financial, and psychological harm a truck driver’s negligence has caused you.
If defense attorneys are unwilling to offer a fair settlement for your brain injury, our trucking attorneys will confidently and swiftly take your TBI case to trial.
A Different Type of Crash
Needs a Different Type of Attorney
Weight, mechanical, and cargo differences between four-wheel vehicles and eighteen-wheelers all make car crashes and truck crashes fundamentally different.
Unfortunately, many personal injury attorneys will treat car crashes and truck crashes like they are the same. For a truck crash victim with a traumatic brain or head injury, partnering with the wrong TBI attorney could mean money is being left on the table.
If your goal is to receive the maximum compensation possible and fully pursue justice after a devastating truck crash, it’s important to pick a truck crash law firm that understands trucks and isn’t afraid to take your case to court.
Contact the Law Firm for Truck Safety and speak with our lawyers about your traumatic brain injury claim. You and your family only have one opportunity to pursue justice and get the results you deserve.
Our Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Attorneys
Our team of nationally-recognized attorneys works with other attorneys and safety advocacy groups at the Federal and local levels to fight for those whose lives have been shattered by truck crashes. We continuously work to build a safer trucking industry where trucking tragedies cannot occur on US roads.
Lawyers NBTA Certified in Truck Crash Law
Lawyers with
Class A CDLs
Settlements and Verdicts
$1 Million and over
Largest Truck Crash Verdict
in Ohio History
Our team of nationally-recognized attorneys works with other attorneys and safety advocacy groups at the Federal and local levels to fight for those whose lives have been shattered by truck crashes. We continuously work to build a safer trucking industry where trucking tragedies cannot occur on US roads.
If you or a loved one suffered a serious head or traumatic brain injury in a truck wreck, the truck accident lawyers at The Law Firm for Truck Safety can help you recover financial compensation and rebuild your life after a catastrophic truck crash.
Crash. Not Accident.
The word “accident” is often used to describe devastating truck crashes. Many people in need of legal help will search for a “truck accident lawyer near me” or the “best truck accident attorney”. We even use "accident" in our site name.
However, most truck “accidents” are not accidents at all.
Truck crashes are often caused by distracted, fatigued, poorly trained, or downright dangerous truck drivers and/or the unsafe business practices of the trucking companies and brokers that hired them. Every semi-truck accident lawyer at The Law Firm for Truck Safety is committed to helping those who have been irreparably harmed in commercial vehicle crashes and providing education to the public that crashes are not accidents.
What Causes a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
in a Truck Accident?
There is no reason why truck crashes should be accepted as a normal part of American life. We believe that all truck crashes on US roads are avoidable, if only the proper care, training, and safety measures are taken. Truck accidents should not be occurring on US roads and certainly not ones that result in traumatic brain injuries, serious head injuries, or death.
All truck crashes that leave victims with a TBI or another type of serious head injury are the result of some type of negligence. If semi-truck driver negligence played a role in your traumatic brain injury case, one or more of the following likely was a contributing factor:
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Traumatic Brain & Head Injury Symptoms
Despite what many think, a direct blow to the head during a truck wreck is not the only way a traumatic brain or head injury can occur. The acceleration and deceleration forces present in a truck crash can be enough to cause a brain injury. Although they often occur together, skull fractures are not a ruler for how severe a brain injury is. Whether your head injury is visible or invisible, it’s important to remember the full extent of your brain trauma may not be known for weeks or months after your crash.
The care and medical treatment needed can vary widely based on the severity of your TBI. Victims who stabilize in the hospital may be transferred to a subacute nursing unit, an independent rehabilitation hospital, or outpatient care. Truck crash victims with more serious head injuries –particularly those who are unable to function independently — will need to explore options that include supported living facilities.
Whatever path of care is necessary, finding the appropriate treatment facility is essential and many facilities are ill-equipped to handle truck crash victims with a TBI. If you suspect any trauma to the brain, skull, or head following an accident, seek medical treatment immediately.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) symptoms may include:
Brain injuries can result from the acceleration and deceleration forces of a truck crash, not just a direct blow to the head. Even if a victim's skull is not fractured, they may still have a severe brain injury. The full extent of brain trauma may not be known for weeks or months after the accident. Treatment for traumatic brain injuries varies based on severity, and finding an appropriate treatment facility is essential. If you suspect a head injury after a truck crash, seek medical treatment immediately.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) symptoms may include:
- Balance issues
- Dizziness
- Fatigue
- Headache
- Irritability
- Loss of consciousness
- Memory loss
- Nausea
- Sleep issues
- Trouble concentrating.
- Difficulty regulating emotions
- Balance issues
- Dizziness
- Fatigue
- Headache
- Irritability
- Loss of consciousness
- Memory loss
- Nausea
- Sleep issues
- Trouble concentrating.
- Difficulty regulating emotions
The initial symptoms of your brain injury may later develop into long-term conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, personality changes, and other physical and psychological infirmities.
Filing a Claim after your Head Injury Accident.
If you or a loved one suffered a brain injury in an accident involving an 18-wheeler, big rig, or another commercial vehicle, The Law Firm for Truck Safety can help you recover the maximum, full, and fair compensation that you are entitled to.
Our team legal team is ready to treat you with the care, knowledge, and compassion needed to help you through one of the most difficult times of your life.
Taking a Brain Injury to Trial: Common Types of Compensation and Damages
Even “mild” brain injuries can require months of time off work – and it can be impossible to pay bills and make ends meet. When a truck driver or trucking company negligence is responsible for your brain injury, you may be entitled to compensation for the following:
- Medical expenses: On its own, the medical treatment for your brain injury can easily reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. Medical care expenses can include initial ambulance transport, hospitalization, surgery, and other life-saving medical procedures, physical therapy, rehabilitation, long-term TBI care, and more.
- Lost earnings: If you are unable to work for any period of time following your accident or are unable to return to work in the same capacity, you may use your truck crash lawsuit to recover compensation for the loss of income you would have otherwise earned, had your truck crash never occurred.
- Pain and suffering: The complete cost of your brain injury is not limited to economic losses, like medical bills, time off work, and vehicle damage — and courts and insurance companies consistently recognize this. In most states, you may receive compensation for the emotional and psychological harm someone else’s negligence has caused you and your family, too.
- Loss of normal life/ loss of enjoyment of life: For most truck crash victims, life before and after your crash looks dramatically different. In most states, compensation can be awarded for the adverse and lasting impact that your truck crash injury will have on your overall quality of life.
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TBI Lawsuits and Truck Crashes – Frequently Asked Questions
It is impossible to calculate an average settlement amount when a truck crash results in a severe brain or head injury. There are so many factors affecting a traumatic brain injury’s case value.
Due to the nature of brain injuries and higher amounts of insurance carried by trucking companies, average settlements for brain injuries from truck accidents tend to be higher than the head injury claims filed in automotive accidents.
Each state has a specific window of time called a statute of limitations, which establishes when a TBI lawsuit can be filed. It is generally one to three years from the date of the accident, but there are exceptions.
It is always advisable to speak with a truck accident attorney as soon as possible after your crash to retain critical evidence needed to maximize justice in your case.
The human brain is one of the most important organs in your body, when the brain or head is injured in a truck wreck, trucking companies may be liable for millions of dollars in damages.
A lawyer who specializes in catastrophic injuries and high-damage trucking accident claims is better equipped to help you receive maximum compensation for your claim.
Emotional pain and mental pain almost always accompany the physical injuries sustained in a truck crash — and not just for those involved immediately in the crash. Having a person or personality suddenly taken from you is incredibly distressing for friends and family of truck crash victims, too.
If a truck crash has impacted you personally, there are many support groups available that can provide resources to help you thrive in your new normal. Connecting with advocacy groups that champion truck safety reform can also serve as a powerful healing tool.
At The Law Firm for Truck Safety, we work with various truck safety advocacy groups that are working towards building a safer trucking industry. These organizations also provide post-crash resources and support to families and survivors of devastating truck crashes.
For more information on resources near you, please call 800.628.4500 or email [email protected].
Large trucks and commercial motor vehicles come in all shapes and sizes. When truck crash victims sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or another type of head injury, these large vehicles are commonly involved in the collision:
- Box Trucks
- Dump Trucks
- Flatbed Trailers
- Logging Trucks
- Tow Trucks
- Garbage Trucks
- Vehicles carrying Hazardous Materials
- Tanker Trucks
- Busses
- Government and municipal trucks
Many parties may be liable for a TBI claim involving a large truck — the truck driver, the trucking company, the manufacturer of the truck, mechanics and maintenance shops, government agencies responsible for the construction and maintenance of roads and highways, and more.
We believe in the healing power of litigation.
Explore how The Law Firm for Truck Safety has helped truck crash victims champion their stories for justice -- inside and outside of the courtroom.
Explore how our firm helps truck crash victims find justice inside and outside of the courtroom.
Explore how The Law Firm for Truck Safety has helped truck crash victims champion their stories for justice -- inside and outside of the courtroom.
Find an Experienced Truck Accident Attorney to Represent Your Brain Injury Case
Our brain injury law firm is here to help you find answers and pursue justice.
If you have suffered a TBI or another type of head injury in a commercial vehicle crash, you deserve a lawyer who has the experience, education, and empathy necessary to fight for you inside and outside of the courtroom.
We invite you to share your story with us. We would be honored to learn more about your crash and provide you with a free, no-obligation, case review.
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