Traumatic brain injuries are complex by nature. It will affect your physical health, cognitive abilities, and behavioral patterns as well.
Common causes of traumatic brain injuries include unintentional falls caused by a private or business property owner or worker’s negligence, victims clashing their heads during motor vehicle accidents, athletes injuring their heads due to someone’s negligence, and doctors failing to provide the standard duty of care.
Defective products, domestic violence, weapon-involved physical assaults, and caregivers abusing infants are also major causes of TBI.
Here we will explain the causes in detail.
Falling Accidents
Unintentional falls is the primary cause of traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Children and older adults are the most vulnerable demographic in unintentional fall-related TBI injuries.
Types of falls and legal claims associated with them include
- Slip and fall accidents that happen due to poor maintenance of a property, such as a grocery store, which is a premises liability claim.
- Accidents driven by defective products like broken ladders and furniture, faulty scaffolding, or defective handrails that caused the victim to fall and suffer a TBI are a product liability claim.
- If the victim got into a fall accident and it caused a TBI injury on personal property or business property, such as hotels, workplaces, or restaurants, the business or homeowner can be sued.
- If an elderly person close to you suffered TBI from falling in their nursing home care, you may be dealing with a nursing home abuse claim.
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Motor vehicle accidents, such as car, truck, bus, and motorcycle accidents, are often the second or third most common cause of brain injuries in the United States.
These accidents give rise to the most deadly TBI conditions due to the inherent, violent nature of motor vehicle collisions.
Besides drivers and passengers, pedestrians and bicyclists can also be involved in these accidents, making them susceptible to brain injuries as well.
Sports Injuries
We often see the news about sportsmen suffering concussions from accidents. Sports are inherently surrounded by a risky environment where safety measures must be maintained at all costs to prevent injuries. When negligence arises, athletes fall victim to it.
Football, cycling, skateboarding, hockey, and equestrian activities have high risks. When a sportsman’s or sportswoman’s head injuries arise from defective equipment or products or negligence of trainers or coaches, the responsible party can be sued.
Medical Malpractice
If a healthcare professional does not practice their standard of care properly, it can lead to traumatic brain injuries.
Common scenarios for medical malpractice TBI include
- The patient not receiving timely treatment for conditions like aneurysms, strokes, or meningitis.
- During brain, spine, or vascular surgeries, the doctor damages the brain tissues of the victim.
- Using excessive force with forceps or vacuum extractors during labor can cause infant TBIs.
- Failing to monitor oxygen levels or mismanaging oxygen during anesthesia can deprive the victim of oxygen and lead to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.
Assaults and Violence
Traumatic brain injuries can be caused by assault and physical violence. There are many scenarios where a victim can injure their head. They include
- In intimate partner violence, one partner strangles, suffocates, or chokes the victim (other partner), and they suffer brain injury from oxygen deprivation.
- Weapon-involved fights or assaults, such as knife or gunshot-induced brain injuries.
- Caregivers violently shake their infants to shut them up crying, and if the pressure is high for their soft tissues, the baby will injure their head.
Why Should TBI Victims Hire Lawyers Immediately?
Symptoms for most TBI victims don’t emerge right away. Their pain can be masked, or internal bleeding in the brain won’t show for a while.
This creates a gap in the evidence. A lawyer helps victims by
- Producing a medical expert’s testimony to demonstrate the severity of the victim’s injury when TBI doesn’t appear on medical scans.
- Ensuring they don’t miss the legal deadline for filing a personal injury claim.
- Acting as fast as they can to secure evidence from the accident scene.
Key Takeaways
- When private property or business owners act negligently, it can cause TBI if the hazards cause the victim to injure their brain.
- Motor-vehicle accidents make up the deadliest TBI injuries due to their inherent catastrophic nature.
- Sportsmen and sportswomen are struck with brain injuries when their coaches, trainers, or manufacturers of sports equipment act negligently.
- Doctors failing to treat their patients properly or delaying treatments can lead to TBI.
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