Concussions

I have had the privilege to help people who have suffered traumatic brain injuries (TBI) due to medical mistakes, in car wrecks, in construction work site injuries and due to product defect.  I am also a Board Member of the [ Read More ]

A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is an injury that may have long-term consequences.   It is invisible.    It can’t be seen on an x-ray.    It can be interpreted as a personality defect by others and as a sense of failure by [ Read More ]

A recent study in Finland establishes that a severe head injury, especially during middle age, could dramatically increase the risk for developing dementia later in life. The study included 40,639 Finnish adults between the ages of 18 and 65 who [ Read More ]

I first introduced in my blogs my middle son, Dante in March of 2013, when I wrote a blog about his mild brain injury sustained wrestling his freshman year of high school, at St. Joseph’s Prep.  ( https://www.barattarussell.com/blog/the-diagnosis-of-traumatic-brain-injury-as-essential-first-step-to-recovery/#more-96).  He is a [ Read More ]

Jane, a grandmother, while on the way to visit her grandchildren, was in a car wreck on the road her grandchildren lived.  She so feared the location, she refused to visit her grandchildren for years.

The movie “Concussion” is helping people across the country understand that a brain injury is not easily recognized when it occurs, and that if proper treatment is not provided, can result in permanent harm.   According to the CDC, head injury [ Read More ]

Often times when I first meet a client who has been harmed by the careless acts of another, I am likely to hear: “I’m not the kind of person who sues.”    I like this kind of client because I am [ Read More ]

Nothing is more challenging for a trial lawyer than to prove to a jury that his client is brain injured when she or he looks, and appears to act, perfectly normal.  Broken bones can be seen on x-rays.  Injuries to [ Read More ]

This blog is the 3rd blog in a series of three that I have written for clients or family members of clients who have sustained a brain injury in an accident of any kind. As discussed in my previous blogs, [ Read More ]

This blog is the 1st blog in a series of three that I have written for clients or family members of clients who have sustained a brain injury in an accident of any kind. Although one doctor’s classification of a [ Read More ]