An accident such as a motor vehicle collision or a slip and fall can cause a traumatic impact to your head. While not all head injuries are serious, you should pay attention to any symptoms that arise thereafter. According to Johns Hopkins, head injuries pose a risk...
How much is your pain and suffering worth?
When someone injures you through negligence or wrongdoing, Louisiana law allows you to sue that person and ask a court to compensate you for the financial damages the injury caused you. If your injury resulted from medical malpractice, you can sue not only the health...
Car accident TBIs: part 2 – dealing with recovery
The hospital released you for your traumatic brain injury last week, and your relatives are visiting. "You are so lucky to be alive!" your Aunt Sally exclaims as she wraps you into a bear hug. Even if it is fortunate to survive an injury as serious as a TBI, it may...
Truckers could be negligent for operating outside the lines
While many car accidents have the potential to cause extensive harm, the size and speed that goes along with semi-trucks can easily result in enormous costs. Federal regulations look to curb the dangers, and truckers that fall short of the rules could end up at-fault....
Can a brain injury put you at risk for Alzheimer’s?
Brain Injuries and Alzheimer's If you know someone who has Alzheimer’s disease, then you understand how devastating it is. This is not something that you ever want to have or see a loved one with. It strips you of your cognitive function, which has a domino effect on...
Recovering from spinal cord injuries
If you end up in an accident that damages your spinal cord, you might wonder whether you have any chance of recovery. While it is true that many people do not recover motor function lost as a result of a spinal cord injury, in some cases, people may improve their...
How can I avoid accidents with trucks?
Any sort of accident while driving is a serious accident, but getting into even a fender-bender with a semi truck can end up having very serious consequences. Semi trucks move slower and have considerably more mass than regular four-wheeled vehicles, which means that...
What causes most truck accidents?
Everybody knows that accidents are the basic price that most of us pay for driving: rare is the person who gets through life without experiencing a fender bender at minimum. However, there are also a large number of fatal truck accidents that happen each year, and...
Why are crush injuries so potentially catastrophic?
When you become the victim of a car crash, you risk sustaining a crush injury that could prove devastating to your health and wellbeing. By definition, a crush injury occurs when some part of your body, usually an arm, a leg or your chest, gets caught between two hard...
Can a car crash paralyze you?
No one need tell you that you can suffer serious injuries in a car crash. Some of them, such as a spinal cord injury, can change your life forever. By definition, an SCI constitutes an injury to your spinal cord, usually caused by the crushing of one or more of the...
