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How can an attorney help with a brain injury claim?
A: Unfortunately, it is all too common that there is little if any follow-up with brain injury patients once they leave the emergency room. Because the injured person often has little insight into the fact that he or she is having problems they typically will not report any problems to the treating physician when following up for other accident related injuries. This makes it appear that either there has been no brain injury or that if there has been a brain injury it has healed and is not presenting an ongoing problem. One of the more significant ways that an experienced brain injury attorney can assist in these claims is to seek out an interview family members and friends to determine if in fact this is happening. If it is, then it needs to be called to the attention of the treating physician and in certain circumstances a neuropsychologist consulted to determine if neuropsychological testing is warranted under the circumstances. Another way in attorney can help is to conduct extensive interviews of eyewitnesses to the trauma of those who came on the scene shortly after in order to determine if there is evidence of loss of consciousness or altered consciousness. While it is certainly true that loss of consciousness or altered consciousness is not necessary for brain injury to exist, inordinate weight is given by insurance adjusters to a notation of "no loss of consciousness" in the medical record. Evidence overcomes such an entry is critical.
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