Archive | Catastrophic Injuries RSS feed for this section

How Common is Traumatic Brain Injury?

27. February 2010

0 Comments

Traumatic brain injury or head injury can happen to anyone. More than a thousand of people experience a life long disability and even die because of this incident. Statistics reported by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control indicate that the number one leading cause of head injury is falls at 28%. Babies and toddlers particularly are prone of falls and/or are victims of violent shaking resulting in head injury. Motor vehicular-traffic crash is the second leading cause of head injury at 20%.

Continue reading...

Truck vs. Other Vehicle Accidents

28. August 2009

1 Comment

The size of large trucks puts all other types of vehicles and even pedestrians at a serious disadvantage when it comes to a collision. To be classified as a large truck it must be over 10,000 pounds, but most United States highways allow for a maximum weight of 80,000 pounds. Compare that to a [...]

Continue reading...

Catastrophic Injuries

3. August 2009

0 Comments

When you are focused on recovering your health or some semblance of it due to a catastrophic injury, the last thing that you are going to want to do is to start talking with insurance agents. Having legal counsel that knows exactly which issues are important to deal with up front will save you undue [...]

Continue reading...