Tampa Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer

Fighting For TBI Victims in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, & Throughout the United States

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), or an intracranial injury, is a complex injury that occurs when an external force injures the brain. In the United States, approximately 1.4 million people experience a TBI each year. The damage to the brain may be focal, limited to one area of the brain, or diffuse, affecting more than one area of the brain. The symptoms of a TBI may be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage. Even a mild traumatic brain injury may cause permanent dysfunction of brain cells. Traumatic brain injuries can cause personality and behavioral problems and significantly hamper activities of daily living.

If you or a family member has suffered from this terrible accident as a result of the negligence of another and would like to discuss your potential case with our Tampa traumatic brain injury lawyers, reach out to us immediately.

Contact us now at (888) 214-1442 to receive a detailed consultation with The Yerrid Law Firm, P.A. regarding your traumatic brain injury claim following a sudden catastrophe.

Seeking Compensation for Your Traumatic Brain Injury

Individuals who have been severely injured in this horrific manner are often left with debilitating physical and mental trauma, in addition to the sheer emotional pain and suffering following the accident. In order to determine the amount of compensation you can receive, several elements of your injury will be examined.

Some of these components include:

• The potential level of ranking the victim has suffered on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
• The height of the claimant’s Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
• The rate and duration of posttraumatic amnesia (PTA)
• The length of periods of unconsciousness
• The claimant’s score on the Disability Rating Scale (DRS)

How to Determine Liability Through Causation?

There are many ways that someone could be liable for inflicting your injury. Under Florida’s law of comparative negligence, if you are demonstrated to have contributed in any way to your accident, you will have to be partially liable as well.

What this means is that the opposing party, whether an individual or an entire medical corporation, will attempt to blame you as the primary cause for your own incident, even going so far as to claim that you already had been injured prior to the accident. This would release them of legal and financial responsibility and could leave you in a worse situation than before.