Traumatic Brain & Head Injuries

Few trucking injuries cause quite as much grief and psychological anguish for truck wreck victims as severe head and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) do. At The Law Firm for Truck Safety, our Oklahoma City brain injury lawyers are dedicated to fighting for truck crash survivors who are living with a traumatic head or brain injury (TBI) because of the negligent and dangerous acts of a commercial vehicle driver.

Severe head injuries affect both the victim and their family. Our firm is here to help our clients throughout Oklahoma and the U.S. navigate the physical and emotional fallout from their truck accident while fighting in the courtroom to help them receive maximum compensation for their injuries.

If you or a loved one sustained a traumatic brain or head injury in an Oklahoma truck wreck, we invite you to share your story with us.

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TBIs are extremely hard on victims and their loved ones and often come with lasting consequences, including limited speech, movement, and cognitive abilities. Family members are obliged to take on a caregiver role and medical costs quickly add up, causing additional stress to an already tragic situation.

Hold Trucking Companies Accountable.
Systemic safety failures within the trucking industry can be found at the core of most catastrophic truck crashes. Inside the courtroom, it is our firm’s mission to hold these negligent drivers and motor carriers accountable for the harm they have caused. Outside the courtroom, we work with safety and advocacy groups that are committed to reforming the trucking industry so that these dangerous drivers and trucking companies never again get behind the wheel of an eighteen-wheeler.

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 will find that your crash will impact you in ways you did not initially anticipate. When this happens, we want to be there for you.

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, we strive to create relationships with our clients that last a lifetime and support them long after their case comes to a close.

Tractor-trailers, big rigs, 18-wheelers – commercial trucks go by many different names, but what they all have in common is their immense size: roughly 80,000 pounds when fully loaded.

When a semi strikes your car, the intense impact can cause your head to violently move back and forth, striking the inside of your vehicle. This motion and blunt force trauma cause the brain to collide with the inside of your skull, which then causes swelling, bleeding, and bruising. But the deceleration forces in a crash with a large truck are not the only way a TBI can occur. In severe crashes, a piece of wreckage can pierce the skull causing what is known as a penetrative TBI.

Types of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) commonly seen in serious truck wrecks include: 

Regardless of the type of head injury sustained, every truck accident victim faces a long road of emotional and physical recovery. Rest assured, our experienced team of truck crash attorneys is here to lend our strength, support, and courage to your recovery while simultaneously fighting to recover the compensation you deserve in the courtroom.

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Prosecuting a semi-truck accident claim is more complex than other personal injury cases and requires a thorough investigation of Federal regulations, driver’s logs, vehicle maintenance records, and more.

It’s not just tractor-trailers that can cause a traumatic brain injury in an Oklahoma truck wreck. Any type of large truck or commercial motor vehicle can cause a severe head or traumatic brain injury. Large vehicles are commonly found liable in TBI-related crashes including:

Brain injuries from a truck wreck often result from physical trauma to the brain but may also result from hypoxia or lack of oxygen to the brain. You don’t have to hit your head very hard to experience a minor concussion or moderate TBI; even two slow-moving vehicles colliding can result in serious injury.

Common TBI symptoms include:

The medical care and time away from work can make even “mild” brain injuries financially burdensome. 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 amount 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 cost of your brain injury exceeds far beyond the measurable damages of medical care and time away from work – 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.
• 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.