- January 27, 2025
- Attorney David Mann
- Personal Injury
If you suffer a brain injury in an accident that wasn’t your fault, you could end up with significant financial hardships related to your injury. Some of the hidden costs of a brain injury include an inability to work or a reduced earning capacity, as well as ongoing costs for medical care. When you are facing these kinds of financial problems, you could attempt to recover your financial setbacks through a personal injury lawsuit against the party that caused your brain injury. Learn more about your options when seeking maximum compensation from a brain injury accident.
The Hidden Costs of a Brain Injury
When you suffer a brain injury in an accident, you could face major difficulties. Whether you have a concussion, a traumatic brain injury (TBI), a puncture injury to the head that affects the brain, or a similar type of injury from the accident, the recovery process from these injuries could be extensive.
You may understand that you’ll have high medical costs as you try to recover from these injuries, including hospitalization, therapy sessions, rehabilitation appointments, medication, and ongoing care from a doctor. However, you could have quite a few other costs associated with your injuries that aren’t quite as immediately obvious. They can include:
- Loss of immediate income: If you cannot work following your injury or if you must work fewer hours, you could seek compensation for this loss of income.
- Loss of future income: After a brain injury, you could suffer cognitive impairments that leave you with a reduced earning capacity for several months or even for the remainder of your life, as a TBI can cause dementia and other hardships.
- At-home equipment: You might need to purchase medical equipment or other types of equipment to help with your recovery or with your day-to-day personal care needs.
- Help at home: If you cannot take care of yourself after your brain injury, you may need to hire someone to help with your personal care, to make meals, or to clean and care for your property.
- Managing money: If you are struggling with finances after your brain injury, the Brain Injury Association of America says you may need help with budgeting and financial management. If you have to go into debt to help with your short-term financial picture, you could have extra interest payments or a reduction in your credit score, which can cost you money in the long run.
Keys for Seeking Maximum Compensation for Your Brain Injury Accident
One of the most important aspects to seeking maximum compensation for your brain injury accident is the severity of the injury. You can sue for a concussion, but if your doctors diagnose you with a TBI instead, you potentially could have more physical and cognitive hardships and receive a greater level of compensation.
The insurance company is not going to simply take your word about the severity of your injuries or the difficulties you are having. You need documentation and proof from medical tests and your doctor to have a chance at the maximum possible compensation.
It’s especially important for you to be honest with your doctors and with your personal injury lawyer about how you are feeling. If you are struggling to handle day-to-day tasks or if you cannot work at all, you should tell your doctor, so this information can go into your personal medical records. This is no time to try to tough out your injury or to feel embarrassed about any problems you’re having. Honesty is vital in cases like this.
Factors Affecting Compensation After a Brain Injury Accident
When seeking a financial award from the negligent party, some of the factors affecting compensation after a brain injury accident include:
- Severity of the injury
- Whether you can fully recover
- The length of time you may have hardships
- The amount of medical costs you have
- Any reduction in your earning capacity
- Pain and suffering you may have in the future
- Any reduction in your quality of life.
While some of the factors that affect compensation for a brain injury are obvious and carry exact costs, such as medical bills and lost wages, you may have some hidden costs for a brain injury that aren’t as easy to calculate. Your brain injury attorney can help you estimate the proper amount to request for these unusual costs that don’t have a specific financial number associated with them.
How a Brain Injury Lawyer Can Help
When you hire a personal injury lawyer to help with your brain injury accident claim, your attorney can help you prove negligence. If the insurance company says that your accident was your fault, rather than the fault of another person, it may try to deny your claim. Your attorney can try to help you receive the financial payment you should have.
If you are trying to negotiate with an insurance company yourself, you may be unsure whether the insurer is making a fair settlement offer to you. You might struggle to fully understand the hidden costs of a brain injury accident, meaning you need help calculating what your injury accident is actually worth.
One of the ways brain injury lawyers can help is by estimating the value of your case. Experienced attorneys understand the different hardships that your brain injury could cause you financially. They will speak with your doctors to determine which ones apply to your situation. They’ll then ask the insurance company to award you a fair settlement amount that takes these problems into account.
Mann Law Firm Can Help When You Are Facing the Hidden Costs of a Brain Injury
After someone else causes an injury to your brain in an accident that wasn’t your fault, you have the right to reach out to our brain injury lawyer to protect your ability to seek compensation. At Mann Law Firm, we have decades of experience providing vital legal services to Georgians who suffer injuries because of negligent behavior of others.
To learn more about how our experience and skill can help you make accurate calculations of the hidden costs of a brain injury accident, call Mann Law Firm today at (478) 742-3381.
Attorney David Mann
Before leading his own firm, Mann served for several years as in-house defense counsel for a large insurance company, which gives him unique insight into how insurance companies work. He uses this critical knowledge as an advantage for his clients. He is a tough negotiator and litigator, and he is exceptionally strategic in building cases on behalf of personal injury victims.[ Attorney Bio ]
