LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – A 3-year-old girl whose skull was fractured by a line drive during batting practice at Dodger Stadium was scheduled for surgery on Tuesday. The accident that caused the surgery occurred Monday when Dodgers catcher Russell Martin hit a line drive in the stands near third base. It hit the girl and knocked her unconscious according to Dodgers spokesman Joe Jareck. The girl was sitting with her father at the time and he rushed he to the first aid station. The Fire Department subsequently transported the girl to ...
ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA – A bus rider called the Sheriff’s Department Tuesday when he thought the driver was under the influence of alcohol. Deputies stopped the bus, route 309 from Oceanside to Encinitas, at around 4:30 p.m. The bus was heading east on Encinitas Boulevard near Calle Magdalena at the time. According to the Sheriff’s Department, the deputies determined the driver showed signs of being under the influence of alcohol. They subsequently conducted field sobriety tests. Based on the results of those tests, the 40-year-old driver was booked on suspicion of driving ...
Why You Need a Dallas Brain Injury Attorney
There are many injuries that you can suffer during a vehicular accident, a truck rollover, or even a motorcycle accident that although traumatic, do not leave you with a lifelong impairment. However, a brain injury is not one of them. For those people who have suffered brain injuries, their lives are forever changed. Even long after the physical scars have healed, they may never be the same person that they were before.
A Dallas brain injury attorney is there to fight for your rights to obtain the best rehabilitation care that you can get, and also to protect your rights to be compensated for the incredible injury that has occurred. Brain injuries occur in any number of events, and can range from minor and short-term to completely debilitating and potentially fatal. A brain injury lawyer who has worked with other brain injured people will be able to provide you not only with their experience but also with their compassion as they have seen people before you fight through their injury.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death in Americans. It is caused by a wide variety of accidents, but most often car accidents, bicycle accidents, and falls in the home. It is not unusual for brain injuries to occur when people are playing sports, at work, and gunshots are also responsible for a fair amount of them as well.
A Dallas brain injury lawyer is the best place for you to turn to immediately after the severe brain damage, first and foremost to ensure that you get the care that you deserve. Regardless of the cause of the accident, someone who has suffered a brain accident needs immediate care and rehabilitation in order to ever have a chance of a recovery. Of course, some people do not recover and are permanently and profoundly disabled, and sometimes that it is because they were not given the care that they needed at the appropriate time.
By contacting a brain injury attorney as soon as possible after the brain injury, you will be more likely to be treated appropriately and also given a better chance for a full recover. The rehabilitation time for this type of injury can easily stretch into years beyond the event, and can even be a permanent fixture in a person?s life, so it is important that the victim be fully compensated. Compensation will include not only the funds for the initial hospitalization and care, but for the rest of the patient?s life, the loss of wages, inheritance, pain and suffering, and whatever costs are necessary for the victim to maintain a comfortable lifestyle for the rest of their life.