Posts tagged Head Injury

• Workers Suffering From Brain Injuries Deserve Equal Compensation Rights

  Jim Lewis | May 26, 2009 3:36 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  You’re better off dying than suffering a brain injury in the state of Virginia (VA). This is the opinion shared by State Sen. Richard Stuart and many others, according to The...

• Virginia (VA) Woman Suffers Brain Injury Caused by Teenagers in Automobile Collision

  John Cooper | July 06, 2007 3:34 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  According to an article in the Virginia Lawyers Weekly, a nurse from Falls Church, Virginia (VA), named Molly Raymond, suffered mild brain injury after being hit by two cars, both driven by teenagers. Because of the brain injury, she has no longer been able to work or continue her regular activities. The lawsuit from this accident was pending in the Fairfax, Virginia (VA) Circuit Court. The...

• Top 5 Ways Not To Choose Your Personal Injury Lawyer

  John Cooper | May 18, 2007 10:19 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I have been practicing law in Virginia Beach and Norfolk, Virginia (VA) for about two decades focusing on accidental injury and wrongful death cases. I have heard amazing stories about how million dollar automobile accident cases have gone to lawyers who really had no business handling such a case for all sorts of strange reasons. The suggestions for a person with an accident case in...

• All We Do Is Injury Law

  John Cooper | May 11, 2007 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Our firm uses the slogan "All we do is injury law" to summarize what our firm's focus is. However, there are really many types of cases within personal injury law. As a Virginia (VA) personal injury attorney, it always amazes me that clients may not fully understand what areas of law we practice in when we say we do injury law. I have had a client indicate that he didn't contact me about the...

• Brain Injury: The Walking Wounded

  John Cooper | May 03, 2007 1:59 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A recent medical study of professional football players has showed that brain injury is a more significant problem, than thought. However, brain injury has probably been ignored or down played in the NFL and the medical community for a long time. Because brain injury is not always as obvious as some kind of a broken bone, it is easier to forget about or treat the injury as less than a real...

• AMA Guidelines For Permanent Partial Impairment Ratings Are An Important Piece Of The Personal Injury Puzzle

  John Cooper | April 04, 2007 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As a personal injury lawyer, it is important to use the AMA guides to permanent partial impairment to your client's advantage. AMA is the American Medical Association, which is the primary national professional group for doctors. They publish and periodically revise a book that sets forth how to quantify permanent partial impairments of various parts of the body after an injury. Most...

• Ski Injuries Can Be Severe

  John Cooper | March 16, 2007 12:40 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  Skiing is a fun winter-time sport that the whole family can participate in. However, skiing injuries can be permanently disabling. The use of helmets while skiing has greatly improved safety on the ski slopes. Skiers often collide with each other and fixed objects like trees. If you have a helmet on, you greatly increase your odds of avoiding a permanent, disabling brain injury or even...

• Structured Settlements

  John Cooper | January 15, 2007 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In a big recovery from a wrongful death or injury matter, structured settlements can make a huge difference for the client.Structured settlements are an important thing for a personal injury lawyer to know about and to explain to a client in any significant case. Structured settlements are an option under a special provision of the federal tax law that allows money received from personal...

• The Hospital Emergency Room Is No Place For A Sick Person

  John Cooper | November 02, 2006 2:37 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Hospital emergency rooms are stretched to the limits, which can lead to medical mistakes.A 1999 study showed that more than half of all preventable hospital error claims result from mistakes in the emergency room (ER). The main problem is chaos. Hospital emergency rooms are not properly funded and they are treating more patients with fewer resources. Part of the problem is more Americans...

• Should I get medical care after an injury?

  John Cooper | October 30, 2006 3:10 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  One of the initial questions faced by the victims of other's negligence is whether they should seek medical attention.While the answer to this question is driven by the facts of the particular incident (i.e. the age of the victim, site of the injury, degree of trauma, etc.), early and appropriate medical care will frequently hasten the recovery from a personal injury. This is particularly true...