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.
Finding Justice for Your Brain Injury
Recovering from a brain injury sustained in a truck accident can be a long and difficult journey. The physical and emotional trauma can be compounded by legal and financial challenges that make it hard to see a way forward. That’s where we come in. The Law Firm for Truck Safety has been representing semi-truck crash victims for almost three decades, and our attorneys have the experience and compassion to guide you through this difficult time.
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
For many Tennessee truck crash victims living with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), every day they must carry the weight of an invisible injury that impacts what they can do and the person they are. For others, their TBI isn’t as invisible.
Regardless of what your head injury looks like, there is a physical, emotional, and financial toll that comes with your TBI. As experienced, truck crash attorneys, we understand this and are here to offer our strength, courage, and support to you and your family, not just in the as personal injury lawyers, but as people who care deeply about your well-being.
For many Tennessee truck crash victims living with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), every day they must carry the weight of an invisible injury that impacts what they can do and the person they are. For others, their TBI isn’t as invisible.
Regardless of what your head injury looks like, there is a physical, emotional, and financial toll that comes with your TBI. As experienced, truck crash attorneys, we understand this and are here to offer our strength, courage, and support to you and your family, not just in the as personal injury lawyers, but as people who care deeply about your well-being.
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 their rights, they are enlisting a team of attorneys who provide care and support that extends far beyond the courtroom.
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 their rights, 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 Nashville 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 truck crash victims receive the kinds of settlements and verdicts that mitigate or eliminate the financial burdens associated with severe brain and head injuries. Our commitment to our clients and our resolve to hold negligent trucking companies accountable has allowed us consistently win million and multi-million-dollar results for our clients.
Keep a small caseload.
We limit our practice to solely represent those with serious trucking injuries. Being selective in this way allows our Nashville truck accident attorneys to dedicate the time, attention, and resources needed to drill down into the facts of your case and build a customized case strategy for your brain injury claim. This focused approach to litigation and commitment to our clients regularly translates to maximized results in the courtroom.
Build a case strategy around your specific goals.
In addition to receiving maximum compensation for your TBI claim, you most likely will want answers, accountability, and assurances that what happened to you or your loved one cannot happen to someone else.
Essential to our firm’s objective to help you heal, is finding meaningful and measurable to hold negligent parties accountable. We strive to understand what accountability and justice look like to you, and build a custom case strategy around those goals, lending our support and knowledge to make those goals a reality — even when those efforts take us outside of the courtroom.
Hold Trucking Companies Accountable.
At their core, many of the truck crashes that result in a serious head or traumatic brain injury are caused by systemic safety failures within the trucking industry.
Inside the courtroom, it is our firm’s mission to hold accountable those responsible for these failures and pursue justice 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, so that these dangerous drivers and trucking companies never again see the asphalt of a US road.
When we make the trucking industry safer, we make Tennessee roads and 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 your life in ways you may not have initially anticipated. We want to be there for you when this happens. This is why 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 to you 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.
Understanding Common Brain Injuries Sustained in Catastrophic Truck Accidents
Large trucks like tractor-trailers, busses, tanker trucks, and other types of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) inherently carry a greater risk of harm than other vehicles on the road. In order to operate these big rigs safely, the level of care, attention, and knowledge needed is much higher, than an automotive.
When a truck driver fails to uphold these critical safe driving standards, this negligence can leave you and your loved one with the kind of brain injury that carries 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.)
The days following a truck crash are critical for the success of your brain injury lawsuit.
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.
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 police, and law enforcement reports, 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 TBI 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 fair compensation for the emotional, financial, and mental 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 make car 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.
Weight, mechanical, and cargo differences between four-wheel vehicles and eighteen-wheelers make car 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 Tennessee 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
Lawyers NBTA Certified in Truck Crash Law
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Settlements and Verdicts
$1 Million and over
Largest Truck Crash Verdict
in Ohio History
At the Federal and local levels, our team of nationally-recognized attorneys works with other attorneys and safety advocacy groups 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 serious injuries in a truck wreck, the Nashville 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.
The Causes of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) in Truck Crashes
There is no reason why truck crashes should be accepted as a normal aspect of driving on Tennessee roads. Whether you’re in Nashville, Memphis, Franklin, Knoxville, or somewhere else in Tennessee, 100% of all Tennessee truck crashes are preventable, if only the proper care, training, and safety measures had been taken.
All truck crashes that leave victims with a TBI or other types of serious head injury are the result of some type of negligence. If semi-driver negligence played a role in your traumatic brain injury case, it is likely one or more of the following played a factor:
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Trucking is a 24/7 industry, but truck drivers cannot drive 24/7. In 2020, there were an estimated 633 deaths in the United States from fatigued-driving-related crashes. Falling asleep at the wheel is a major concern for multiple US agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
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According to NHTSA, In 2020, an estimated 3,142 people died in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers – and thousands more were injured. Any activity that takes your hands, mind, or eyes off of driving is a distraction. Cell phones are one of the most problematic distractions. Because heavy semi-trucks take longer to stop than passenger vehicles, truck drivers are even more at risk of accidents caused by distraction
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Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs is a leading cause of vehicle accidents. NHTSA saw a double-digit (14%) increase in the number of drunk/drugged driving deaths from 2019 to 2020.
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Inadequately trained truck drivers are more likely to cause accidents than experienced truck drivers.
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Unsecure and imbalanced cargo loads make semi-trucks harder to stop and maneuver, putting those around the tractor-trailer in danger of being hit by debris or components of the commercial motor vehicle itself.
Traumatic Brain & Head Injury Symptoms
Even if you didn’t suffer a direct hit to the head, the forces involved in a truck accident can still cause a traumatic brain or head injury. Skull fractures are often associated with brain trauma, but they don’t necessarily indicate the severity of the injury. Recovery from a TBI can vary depending on the extent of the injury and the necessary path of care.
Therefore, finding the appropriate medical facility is crucial for successful recovery. It’s important to seek medical attention immediately after a truck accident, even if you don’t feel like you’ve suffered a severe head injury. Remember that the full extent of your brain trauma may not be apparent until later, and the care needed may also change over time. Our experienced truck accident attorneys can help you navigate the legal process while you focus on your recovery.
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
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 Nashville can help you recover the maximum, full, and fair compensation that you are entitled to.
Our legal team is ready to treat you and your case 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 in Tennessee: Common Types of Compensation and Damages
Even “mild” brain injuries can require months of medical care and time off from work before you can return to a normal routine. Regardless of your TBI’s severity, recovery after a truck crash head injury brings additional financial expenses that burden a family’s budget. As such, when a truck driver’s or trucking company’s negligence is responsible for your brain injury, they maybe required to compensate you and your family for the following:
- Medical expenses: On its own, the medical treatment for your brain injury can easily reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. Medical 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 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 semi-crash never occurred.
- Pain and suffering: Truck crash victims who have sustained a serious head or traumatic brain injury may find that their injury costs them more than just dollars, and Tennessee courts recognize this. In Tennessee, you may receive compensation for the emotional and psychological harm your truck crash has caused you and your family.
- Loss of normal life/ loss of enjoyment of life: For most truck crash victims with a TBI, life before and after your crash looks dramatically different. Tennessee courts may also award compensation for the lasting adverse impacts that your truck crash will have on your overall quality of life.
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TBIs and Tennessee Truck Crashes – Frequently Asked Questions
Several parties may be liable in a TBI claim involving a large truck. The truck driver, trucking company, manufacturer, mechanics and maintenance shops, government agencies responsible for the construction and maintenance of roads and highways, and more, can all be held liable, depending on the specifics of your crash.
The negligence that leads to catastrophic truck crashes is often caused by the failures or shortcomings of multiple parties. In other words, if multiple parties played a role in placing a dangerous truck driver and/or tractor-trailer on the road, then multiple parties need to be held accountable. In Nashville trucking cases, it is not uncommon to see truck wreck cases where multiple parties are being sued:
Parties that are commonly sued in Tennessee truck accident lawsuits include:
- The truck driver
- The trucking company
- The driver of the car or motorcycle that hit the truck (if you were a passenger)
- Trucking brokers
- The manufacturer or distributor of a defective truck part
- Repair shops/mechanics
If you have sustained a severe head or brain injury in a Tennessee truck crash, it’s important to connect with an experienced Tennessee truck accident law firm to ensure that you are pursuing justice to its fullest extent and using your truck crash claim to hold accountable all parties responsible for your brain injury.
Because commercial vehicles typically have a higher profile than their four-wheel counterparts, when a big rig and an automotive collide, the height differential often puts the heads of those in the passenger vehicle directly in line with the trailer of the truck — as is the case with many underride collisions.
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
- Box Trucks
- Dump Trucks
- Flatbed Trailers
- Logging Trucks
- Tow Trucks
- Garbage Trucks
- Vehicles carrying Hazardous Materials
- Tanker Trucks
- Busses
- Government and municipal trucks
It is impossible to calculate an average case result for a truck crash. However, because of the severe nature of brain injuries and the higher amounts of insurance typically carried by trucking companies, average settlements for brain injuries from truck accidents tend to be higher than those sustained in passenger vehicle accidents and less severe head injuries.
Schedule a free, no-obligation case review with The Law Firm for Truck Safety to learn more about the different types of compensation you may be entitled to for your truck accident.
Each state has a statute of limitations, which establishes the timeframe in which a trucking claim or TBI lawsuit can be filed.
In Tennessee, the statute of limitations is one year from the date of your accident. Even though you have one year to file a claim, it is always in your best interest to speak with a Tennessee truck accident attorney as soon as possible after your crash to retain the critical evidence needed to maximize justice in your case.
Emotional and mental harm almost always accompany the physical injuries sustained in a truck crash — and not just for those involved in the crash directly. Losing a person or personality that once existed is incredibly distressing for friends and family.
However a truck crash has impacted you personally, there are many support groups available that can provide the 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 fight for a safer trucking industry and 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].
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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 Tennessee Truck Accident to Represent Your Brain Injury Case
Have you or a loved one sustained a traumatic brain injury from a trucking accident?
Our traumatic brain injury law firm is available to help you find answers and pursue justice.
If you have suffered a brain or other type of head injury in a commercial vehicle crash, you deserve to be represented by a law firm with 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 to provide you with a free, no-obligation, case review.
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