At Charlie Therman Injury & Accident Lawyers, P.C., our Berwyn brain injury lawyers help people and families pursue compensation after concussions, traumatic brain injuries, and other head trauma caused by preventable accidents.
Since 2002, our firm has represented hardworking people across the Chicago area who need a legal team that takes their recovery seriously. With more than 75 years of combined experience and over $100 million recovered for clients, we know how insurance companies evaluate brain injury claims and the tactics they use to minimize payouts. Our founding attorney’s experience working on the insurance side gives us valuable insight into how these cases are reviewed, valued, and defended.
Our founding attorney’s background working on the insurance side gives our firm practical insight into how adjusters review injury claims. If you or a loved one suffered a brain injury, contact us today for a free consultation with our Berwyn personal injury lawyers.
What Counts as a Brain Injury Claim?
A brain injury claim may arise when another person, business, property owner, medical provider, or company causes trauma to the brain. That injury may come from a direct blow to the head, violent movement of the neck and skull, loss of oxygen, a fall, a crash, or another forceful event.
Brain injury claims may involve the following injuries and conditions:
- Concussions
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Diffuse axonal injuries
- Brain bleeds
- Contusions
- Skull fractures
- Post-concussion syndrome
- Anoxic or hypoxic brain injuries
The label “mild” can be misleading. A mild traumatic brain injury can still cause serious symptoms that last for weeks, months, or longer. Many people struggle with headaches, vision changes, sleep problems, short-term memory issues, irritability, anxiety, depression, dizziness, or difficulty concentrating.
Insurance companies often try to downplay these injuries when imaging does not show obvious damage. We know that many brain injuries are diagnosed through symptoms, clinical evaluation, medical history, therapy records, and functional changes, not just a CT scan or MRI.
Types of Cases Our Bewryn Brain Injury Lawyers Handle
Our attorneys review how these injuries occur, who had a duty to prevent them, and which insurance policies may apply.
We handle brain injury claims involving:
- Car accidents.
- Truck accidents.
- Uber and Lyft collisions.
- Bicycle accidents.
- Pedestrian accidents.
- Falls in stores, stairwells, apartments, sidewalks, and parking lots.
- Construction and other third-party workplace incidents.
- Negligent security and assaults.
- School, sports, and recreational injuries.
Some brain injury cases involve one clear at-fault party. Others require a deeper investigation into vehicle data, property maintenance records, employer conduct, medical decision-making, security practices, or product design. We look closely at the facts before deciding how to pursue the claim.
Proving Liability After Head Trauma
A successful brain injury claim must connect the responsible conduct to the injury and the losses that followed. That requires strong evidence.
Depending on the incident, we may gather the following types of evidence to support your claim:
- Crash reports
- Incident reports
- Photos and video
- 911 audio
- Police body camera footage
- Witness statements
- Vehicle Event Data Recorder information
- Cell phone records
- Store or building surveillance video
- Maintenance records
- Medical records
- Therapy records
- Employment records
- School records
- Testimony from family members, coworkers, or friends
Causation is often heavily disputed in brain injury claims. Insurers may argue that your symptoms came from stress, aging, a prior condition, medication, lack of sleep, or some unrelated event.
Our Berwyn brain injury attorneys respond by building a detailed timeline of your health before the injury, the event itself, the onset of symptoms, your treatment, and the ways your daily functioning changed.
Calculating Damages in a Berwyn Brain Injury Claim
The value of a brain injury claim depends on the severity of the injury, the length of recovery, the need for future care, the effect on your earning ability, and the impact on your daily life.
Compensation can include the following, depending on your situation:
- Emergency room care
- Hospital bills
- Imaging and diagnostic testing
- Neurology visits
- Therapy and rehabilitation
- Prescription medication
- Future medical care
- Lost wages
- Reduced earning capacity
- Out-of-pocket expenses
- Transportation costs for medical visits
- In-home help
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional distress
- Loss of normal life
- Loss of companionship in wrongful death cases
Brain injury damages are often undervalued when the focus stays only on medical bills. We also look at how the injury affects your work performance, relationships, independence, sleep, parenting, school performance, concentration, and ability to enjoy your normal routines.
In more serious cases, future damages may require input from medical providers, life-care planners, vocational professionals, or economists. These resources can help show the long-term cost of the injury and the support you may need moving forward.
How Charlie Therman Injury & Accident Lawyers, P.C. Builds Your Case
Brain injuries often affect people in ways that are hard to describe in a short doctor’s visit or insurance form. We want to know how the injury affects your work, your memory, your patience, your sleep, your family responsibilities, and your ability to get through the day.
Then we build the claim with focused evidence. Our team may:
- Preserve available video footage.
- Send evidence preservation letters.
- Interview witnesses.
- Photograph the scene.
- Review crash, incident, or medical records.
- Obtain vehicle data when available.
- Gather employment and wage records.
- Review medical timelines.
- Work with qualified professionals when additional analysis is needed.
- Prepare a damages presentation that reflects the full injury.
We also pay close attention to communication. Clients should not have to chase their lawyer for basic updates. Our firm is responsive, approachable, and serious about keeping you informed as your case moves forward.
If access to care is a concern, we may be able to connect you with medical providers who treat patients on a lien basis. That can help you continue treatment while your injury claim is pending.
Speak With a Berwyn Brain Injury Attorney Today
Charlie Therman Injury & Accident Lawyers, P.C. has helped injured people across the Chicago area since 2002. We bring legal experience, insurance-side insight, and responsive client service to every case we accept.
Choose Charlie. Contact us today for a free consultation with a brain injury attorney in Berwyn.
