Posts tagged brain injury

• HB 4936 - Putting Michigan's drivers in harm's way.

  Timothy Smith | January 05, 2012 10:28 AM | 7 CommentsTraverse City, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In mid-September, Representative Peter Lund, who is Chair of the House Insurance Committee, introduced House Bill 4936 which is a reform proposal being pushed by Michigan’s Auto Insurance...

• The Forgotten Injury After TBI: The Injury to the Marriage

  Timothy Smith | December 16, 2010 12:32 PM | 2 CommentsTraverse City, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  It is clear to the doctors who treat traumatic brain injury, as well as the attorneys that represent those same injured individuals, that the organic damage to the brain itself is a very real injury...

• Endocrine System Dysfunction Following Brain Injury

  Timothy Smith | January 15, 2009 2:14 PM | 2 CommentsGrand Rapids, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  SeminarWeb has asked me to speak again on this emerging issue in the area of traumatic brain injury. I presented this issue to a national group of attorneys in early 2008 and have been asked to...

• Advanced Technology Showing How PTSD Alters Brain Function

  David Mittleman | November 28, 2009 4:22 PM | 4 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  For years people suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were dismissed as complainers and fakers. Their cases were given little to no serious consideration from the medical community...

• Timothy Smith accepts position on the National Advisory Board to the Sara Jane Brain Project

  Timothy Smith | July 06, 2009 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Rapids, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Odd name, huh? The Sara Jane Brain Project. But what is odd in name is absolutely breathtaking in what the project is trying to accomplish as it works to create a model system for children suffering...

• Brain Injury Awareness Month Campaign

  Steven Gursten | March 27, 2012 3:15 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  As lawyers for injury victims, we get an up-close look at how the lives of traumatic brain injury survivors are dramatically impacted by their injuries. As you might know, March is Brain...

• $65 Million Jury Verdict Upheld in Florida for Tractor-Trailor Crash Victim

  David Mittleman | August 23, 2010 12:08 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A Florida Appeals Court recently upheld a $65 Million Jury Verdict from Polk County, Florida, for a woman who was severely and permanently injured when she was 19-years-old. The verdict is said to...

• Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury

  Daniel Buckfire | December 08, 2008 10:54 AM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Children with traumatic brain injuries face some of the most difficult challenges a parent or teacher is likely to encounter. Unfortunately, thousands of children suffer traumatic brain injuries...

• Traumatic Brain Injury Damages

  Daniel Buckfire | September 23, 2008 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Experienced brain injury lawyers that the client’s traumatic brain injury case is not over once they prove the client has suffered a traumatic brain injury. Proving the extent of the damages the...

• Soldiers and PTSD

  Larry Buckfire | April 19, 2008 8:20 AM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  The war in Iraq has raised serious questions about how our soldiers are treated for their wartime psychological injuries. Soldiers with physical injuries, like spinal cord injuries and loss of limb...