Traumatic Brain Injury

The experience of Casey Gerry's San Diego traumatic brain injury lawyers and types of TBI cases

Throughout San Diego County and Southern California, Casey Gerry’s traumatic brain injury lawyers have had extensive experience representing people who have suffered all degrees of TBI. Our attorneys work with neurosurgeons, neurologists and neuropsychologists to assure that their clients are properly evaluated, and the nature and extent of their deficits are determined.

A traumatic brain injury will be rated as severe, moderate or mild. People who have severe head injuries may become so incapacitated that they don’t know that they have suffered a head injury, and have no recall of their former identity. They may require extensive re-education, and will live with sharply limited functioning. Casey Gerry's San Diego traumatic brain injury lawyers have achieved settlements for individuals, enabling persons with severe TBI to have the care they need.

The individual with a moderate brain injury may experience greater distress than one with a severe injury, because the individual understands that s/he is different since the injury, and has significant limitations in their functioning. A traumatic brain injury lawyer understands that an injured person must not only cope with the problems from their injury, but must also come to terms with the knowledge that they can never recover the life they had before the accident.

Even when the brain injury is mild, persistent deficits can interfere with a person’s ability to retain information or to retrieve information and process it. These limitations can be debilitating in certain circumstances, particularly for the person in a profession or activity that places significant demands on them. A traumatic brain injury lawyer will advise that all head injuries, severe, moderate, or mild should be taken very seriously, and evaluated aggressively and thoroughly.

After a fire truck ran a red light and struck a young woman, Monica G. Casey Gerry's San Diego brain injury lawyers obtained a record settlement for her. Her case was one of the first to establish the need for fire departments to use opticom devices to ensure that they could change traffic lights as they proceeded through intersections, reducing risk to other drivers and passengers.

Another client, Ted W, was a high school wrestler who suffered a “head squeezing” injury from an opponent in a match that caused a subdural bleed. His case, which went to trial, dealt with a neurodeficit that compromised this young man’s ability to think mathematically, a subject in which he had previously been extremely proficient. The San Diego Tribune reported the story as “an El Cajon case about a dream lost.” and the jury awarded him $621,000.

Casey Gerry's San Diego traumatic brain injury lawyers have taught seminars and written papers that are widely used by other lawyers about the preparation of cases for individuals with traumatic brain injuries. Over the last 60 years we have learned the importance of fully understanding a person’s pre-morbid functioning, their level of functioning before the accident. We often obtain school records going back to grade school so that we can evaluate a person’s cognitive abilities prior to the incident.