Personal Injury Lawyers in New York

Our soldiers put their lives and health in danger voluntarily to protect the nation, and although both the military and the federal government have some programs in place to provide healthcare to injured soldiers, it is not always enough.

In West Virginia, a bill has been sponsored that would create a state Traumatic Brain Injury Services Commission. Its job would be to identify soldiers diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and find healthcare for them, or other services they might need.

TBIs can be utterly life-destroying. Depending on which part of the brain is injured, a person can be:

• Partially or totally paralyzed
• Unable to speak
• Unable to see or hear well, or at all
• Unable to learn, or to remember what was previously learned

The brain is still a medical mystery to some extent, and each brain injury is an individual thing. Severe TBIs can leave a person in need of permanent living assistance, in chronic pain, and unable to earn a living.

The West Virginia bill would apportion one percent of the state’s video lottery revenues to this new TBI resource. It is not known how many West Virginia soldiers have brain injuries, but nationally it is estimated that over 7,000 Americans are admitted to hospitals (military and veterans) each year for TBI.

It is not only soldiers in the line of fire who are at risk for TBI. Any civilian can sustain a TBI in a motorcycle accident, sports accident, construction site accident, or in many other ways. If you have a loved one with a TBI and are wondering how to meet all the medical and other costs, perhaps you have a valid legal claim. Depending on how the injury happened, there could be a negligent party who could be held responsible. For a free consultation, please call us or send an email.