Personal Injury Accident Lawyers • San Francisco
A brain injury (TBI) changes the life of the victim and those who are close to him or her. Most brain injuries stem from head trauma, in-hospital injuries, stroke, toxic chemical exposures or deprivation of oxygen to the brain. At the Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger TBI law firm, our medical malpractice and accident lawyer team ha s the skill, knowledge, and experience to prevail on behalf of TBI victims against corporations, insurance companies, medical institutions, and other liable parties.
A traumatic brain injury can occur when any outside force impacts the head hard enough to cause the brain to move within the skull, or if the force is strong enough to actually fracture (break) the skull and cause direct trauma to the brain. Traumatic injuries most frequently occur in motor vehicle crashes, but they can also happen in falls (whether down stairs, from ladders, or simply on level ground), sports, physical violence, shaken baby syndrome, medical malpractice and other trauma that may cause the interior of the brain to strike the sides of the skull. Any rapid acceleration or deceleration of the head can force the brain to move back and forth across the interior of the skull, producing bruising, swelling, and brain injury. The stress from rapid movement of the head can pull apart nerve fibers in the brain, and actually cause physical damage to brain tissue. At Walkup, Melodia, Kelly, Wecht & Schoenberger we have handled claims in almost all of the foregoing circumstances: falls, accidents, vehicle crashes, sports injuries, defective products, and assaults.
Additionally, over the last 40 years we have represented many clients who have sustained injury as the result of medical malpractice in procedures that have caused an interruption of blood flow to the brain, or compromised oxygenation of blood flowing to the brain.
In the field of obstetric negligence, we have represented families who have endured the tragedy of a mismanaged labor and delivery that produces a child who has sustained anoxic or a hypoxic brain damage because cesarean section was not undertaken early enough; we have represented parents whose children should have been born without any disability, but instead are afflicted with cerebral palsy because an attending physician or obstetrician failed to appreciate changes in fetal heart tones. We have represented young clients who have residual neurological and cognitive deficits because of anesthesia errors, overdoses of anesthesia, and failure to manage and observe vital signs with the result that brain damage occurs. Our TBI medical malpractice and negligence specialists have represented both children and adults who have undergone brain surgeries for congenital anomalies, resection of aneurysms, evacuation of hematomas, and other injuries, where surgical errors have resulted in infarction or stroke, or other surgical catastrophes.
Our TBI attorneys have also represented clients who sustained head injuries that were not timely diagnosed, with the result that what should have been a small and manageable problem escalates to significant cerebral swelling with brain stem compression and secondary injury.
The brain injury specialists at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger have also handled cases where our clients have acquired brain injuries from airway obstruction, near-drowning, choking, crush injuries to the chest, electrical shock, vascular disruption, heart attack, stroke, undiagnosed arteriovenous malformations, untreated meningitis, other infectious diseases, improperly treated seizure disorders and toxic exposures.
Unlike traumatic brain injuries, acquired brain injuries may result from a change in neuronal activity, metabolic activity, or functional ability. As with traumatic brain injury, an acquired brain injury can produce mild, moderate or severe impairment in one or more areas, including cognition, speech-language communication; memory; attention and concentration; reasoning; abstract thinking; physical function; psycho-social behavior; and information processing.
Whatever the cause, type, or severity of a traumatic brain injury, a brain injury lawer at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger can help. Contact an accident or medical malpractice lawyer at the Walkup law firm. We can evaluate your situation, explain your options, and help you obtain the compensation you need.
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The traumatic brain injury attorneys and spinal cord injury lawyers at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger represent clients in California and Nevada. Our lawyers will meet with injured people and their families in our office, at your home, or in your hospital room.
