San Antonio Brain Injury Lawyer

Putting World-Class Expertise in Brain and Head Injuries to Work for You

At Crosley Law, we know that traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) can change your life in countless ways. When someone else’s negligence, misconduct or reckless actions caused your brain injury, you deserve answers—and fair compensation. A San Antonio brain injury lawyer can help.

TBI cases are scientifically demanding. Even with diagnostic tests like MRIs and CT scans, brain injuries are not easy to diagnose and understand. Without an experienced brain injury lawyer at your side, you may not get the testing you need, or overlook critical medical evidence and facts you need to prove the value of your personal injury claim.

Attorney Tom Crosley and the team at Crosley Law are national leaders in TBI litigation. We painstakingly research our clients’ cases using cutting-edge tactics and consult with world-class experts. We’ve built an impressive track record of success for clients who suffer traumatic brain injuries, and we frequently educate other lawyers on TBIs and other personal injury issues.

Our goal is always to ensure our clients’ financial stability. If you’ve been injured or lost a loved one because of someone else’s carelessness, especially if a TBI was involved, call Crosley Law for a free consultation at 210-LAW-3000 | 210-529-3000 or fill out the quick free consultation request form on this page.

You Deserve a San Antonio Brain Injury Lawyer That Gets Results

Tom Crosley and his team have earned a remarkable track record, handling some of San Antonio’s most complex and high-profile brain injury claims.

• $20 million settlement: Our client suffered a severe brain injury when he was run over while riding his bicycle. He was in a coma for several weeks and will require supervision for the remainder of his life. The settlement funded a trust that will provide for his life-long needs.
• $16 million jury award: Our client suffered a mild traumatic brain injury from a head-on collision with an 18-wheeler truck tractor. The case later settled for $6 million. This is a story of results, of digging deeper, of seeking out medical expertise, and of the attorneys at Crosley Law Firm doing everything in their power to make sure justice was delivered to their client.
• $11.5 million jury award: Our 16-year-old client sustained a traumatic brain injury at an indoor trampoline park. At trial, we won a record-breaking verdict against the negligent company. The case later settled for $5,250,000.

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What Is a Traumatic Brain Injury?

TBIs occur when an external force, such as an impact from a car wreck, damages your brain’s delicate nerves and tissues.

TBI victims do not always suffer a loss of consciousness. Sometimes, the victim will simply feel dazed or woozy at first, but they may develop additional TBI symptoms later on. While some traumatic brain injuries create symptoms right away, others take time to develop.

During a TBI, brain tissues and nerves can suffer microtrauma that is difficult to detect but can cause severe symptoms. Proving the connection between your symptoms and brain trauma can be challenging. MRI and CT scans don’t always show the level of detail necessary to document axonal damage and tiny brain bleeds. This can lead to delays in a TBI diagnosis and denial of insurance claims.

TBI is a broad term that covers a wide variety of injuries, from minor concussions to injuries that can leave a person in a vegetative state. Common types of traumatic brain injuries include:

Concussions

Sometimes called mild TBIs (mTBI), these common injuries occur when your brain is suddenly jolted or shaken. They can cause headaches, ringing in the ears, confusion, memory loss, and other symptoms. While many people recover after a single concussion, concussions can also lead to long-term conditions like post-concussion syndrome and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Do not be misled by the word “mild” in mild TBI—a concussion can sometimes be very serious injuries.

Contusions

Trauma causes a bruise on your brain. Some contusions are called coup-contrecoup injuries, which means your brain bounces repeatedly off your skull. This bouncing can damage multiple areas. Large, severe contusions may need surgery.

Diffuse Axonal Injuries (DAI)

The force of the impact tears and stretches your brain’s axons, which are the bundles of nerves that help the brain transmit messages. Severe DAIs can be fatal and can cause permanent brain damage. However, a “mild” DAI can cause profound changes in your ability to think and process feelings. Mild DAIs often go undiagnosed.

Hematomas and Hemorrhage

Blood vessels are torn, causing bleeding in and around your brain. This trauma can cause pressure to build up in your skull, damaging your brain’s nerves and tissues. Sometimes, surgery is needed to remove blood clots and reduce the pressure.

Penetrating Injuries

An object fractures the skull and pierces your brain. These injuries require immediate medical care and can be life-threatening.

Skull fractures

Trauma can crack your skull, causing pain and an increased risk of infection.

Do I Have a Traumatic Brain Injury?

If you or a loved one suffered serious injuries during a car crash, fall, workplace accident, or another incident, it’s essential to seek immediate medical care, even if you only have “minor” symptoms (like a dull headache). Sometimes, these seemingly mild symptoms are warning signs of a severe, catastrophic injury.

TBI symptoms can include:

• Loss of consciousness
• Cognitive difficulties
• Decreased attention and concentration
• Fatigue
• Headache
• Memory deficits (long and short-term)
• Mood and personality changes
• Dizziness and balance problems
• Ringing in your ears (tinnitus)
• Slurred speech or problems finding the right words
• A metallic or bad taste in your mouth
• Visual disruption (such as blurred or double vision)
• Seizures
• Vomiting and nausea

The most serious brain injuries can even cause paralysis and death. When you seek medical attention, doctors can examine your injuries, provide potentially life-saving treatment, and suggest ways to speed up your recovery.

However, TBI victims and their loved ones often discover that their legal claims aren’t as simple as they hoped. Older MRI and CT machines can’t always identify microtrauma, and many auto accident victims struggle with misdiagnosed or undiagnosed brain injuries. To fight back, you’ll need a traumatic brain injury lawyer who understands TBIs and has access to leading-edge technologies, experts, and scientific research.

What Are the Most Common Causes of Traumatic Brain Injuries in Texas?

According to the Texas Emergency Medical Services Trauma Registry, our state’s top causes of traumatic brain injuries include:

• Motor vehicle accidents (including car accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, and bicycle-car crashes): 7,285 hospitalizations and a 9.1% fatality rate
• Being struck by or striking against an object: 2,748 hospitalizations and a 2.07% fatality rate
• Falls: 11,696 hospitalizations and a 4.75% fatality rate in 2013

Every TBI is different. A violent rear-end car accident can cause trauma that is very different from what another victim suffers in a rollover or serious fall.

Older individuals and children are most likely to experienced fall-related TBIs. For people between the ages of 15 and 44, car and truck wrecks are the most common reason for a brain injury. However, our attorneys know that falls impact all ages; one of our clients was only 16 years old when he suffered a catastrophic TBI at a poorly maintained trampoline park.

Why You Need a San Antonio Brain Injury Lawyer

Traumatic brain injuries are all too common in Texas. According to the Texas Brain Injury Association, about 144,000 people suffer a brain injury every year, which means a TBI occurs every four minutes in our state.

Thankfully, many of the injured victims quickly recover and return to their day-to-day lives. However, not everyone is so fortunate: an estimated 381,000 people in Texas live with a brain injury-related disability.

Our country spends an estimated $76.5 billion on medical care for TBIs each year. Someone with a severe TBI, especially someone who is in a vegetative state, can require millions of dollars’ worth of care during their lifetime.

When someone else’s recklessness or misconduct causes devastating injuries to you or a loved one, you deserve accountability and compensation.

Unfortunately, insurance companies continually try to undervalue—or deny—traumatic brain injury claims.

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How Much Is My Traumatic Brain Injury Case Worth?

TBI claims require careful calculations of the potential damages. We take a comprehensive approach to brain injury claims, and we start by identifying all potential sources of compensation. This process includes investigating and documenting:

• The at-fault party’s insurance policy and personal assets
• Your current medical expenses, including hospital, rehabilitation, mental health, and other medical bills
• The cost of medical and assistive devices you need, such as wheelchairs and ramps
• Your need for future medical treatment and long-term care
• Lost wages and reduced future earning potential
• Pain and suffering
• Permanent injury costs
• Punitive damages
• Funeral and burial expenses
• The liability of the manufacturers and sellers of mechanically defective parts

Severe brain injuries can have a profound impact on a person’s ability to function and live their best life. But because TBIs are also “invisible injuries,” it can be difficult to prove to an insurance company or jury how severe your symptoms truly are. Unfortunately, this often leads to head injury victims losing their cases or settling for far less than they truly deserve.

At Crosley Law, we have made learning the science of brain injuries a core part of our practice, and we work extensively with doctors, research scientists, economists, life care planners, and other experts who specialize in traumatic brain injury cases. We are ready to fight for our clients to ensure they get the best possible settlement or verdict for their TBI injuries.

How Long Do I Have to File a Personal Injury Claim?

Even if you have a strong claim, you need to act quickly. In Texas, you only have two years from the date of a TBI to file a personal injury lawsuit. If you miss this deadline, which is sometimes called the statute of limitations, you may lose your right to compensation forever.

It’s nearly impossible for victims to sort out all the complex issues in a brain injury claim on their own. When you work with Crosley Law, you can focus on your physical and emotional recovery, not the details of your case or dealing with the insurance company. We deliver outstanding service, and we’ll continue to help you even after your case is closed.

Our San Antonio Brain Injury Lawyers Use Cutting-Edge Tactics and Research to Fight for Our Clients

Because many doctors and hospitals don’t have access to the newest TBI diagnostic tools, it’s important to work with a brain injury lawyer who understands this rapidly developing medical field. At Crosley Law, we work with researchers and doctors who are on the leading edge of neuroscience to help resolve our clients’ personal injury claims.

We rely on the latest technology and research in almost every TBI case. We use our knowledge to explain your injuries, calculate your damages, and build effective trial presentations.

When you work with the team at Crosley Law, we’ll obtain all the investigative reports and documentation related to your brain injury. We’ll carefully prepare your legal claims using all the resources we have available, including:

• Detailed reviews of relevant medical records and accident reports
• Nationally and regionally recognized experts and physicians
• Crash reconstruction experts
• Crash data from the vehicles involved
• Digital crash simulations
• Multimedia presentations
• Advanced medical imaging
• Cutting-edge recordkeeping databases
• Jury focus groups

These legal and technological assets help us to prove your TBI’s causes and severity, which lets us put a precise dollar figure on every cost and loss that you’ve suffered because of your head trauma.

We also act quickly. We know the insurance adjuster will try to delay your claim as much as possible, hoping you’ll cave and take a lowball settlement. You can’t wait for help and compensation. That’s why our TBI attorneys do everything in their power to push our clients’ cases forward and prepare every case as if it’s going to trial from day one.

Crosley Law: Our Results in Brain Injury Cases

Here are a just a few notable examples of people and families we’ve been able to help.

Cutting-Edge Research Results in a $16 Million Verdict

Cutting-Edge Tactics Result in a $16M Jury Award: Jerry M.’s Story

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After a truck accident, Jerry was clearly experiencing symptoms of a serious brain injury, including memory loss and mood changes. He could no longer work as a master plumber, and he needed significant caretaking. Yet because the initial scans performed in the hospital showed no significant brain damage, the insurance company insisted that Jerry was fine.

Crosley Law suspected that Jerry had an undiagnosed TBI—one that MRI and CT scans weren’t sensitive enough to detect. We were able to arrange for him to receive testing at a state-of-the-art facility, and the doctors there detected abnormal brain wave activity associated with a TBI. These test results were instrumental in winning his case.

Justice for a Young Man Shattered by a Life-Altering Brain Injury

Crosley Law Settles Major Brain Injury Case: Ramse’s Story

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Raymond, a young man with a big smile and a bright future in the culinary arts, had that future taken from him when he was hit by a delivery van while riding his bicycle. A serious brain injury severely affected his cognitive, linguistic, and memory skills. His doctors believed he would be unable to live independently, and estimated his future medical costs at a staggering $12 million.

After repeated pandemic-related delays and nearly four years of hard work, taking more than 30 witness depositions and hiring over a dozen experts, Crosley Law was able to negotiate a large, confidential settlement that will provide financial security for Raymond and his family for years to come.

Projecting Future Care Needs for a Young Child with a TBI

Another one of our clients was a very young child with a brain injury. Because the child was meeting early milestones, the insurance company argued that the damage was minimal and were unwilling to offer a reasonable settlement. With the help of a team of experts, Crosley Law proved that the child’s injury would seriously impact brain functions that were still developing, such as executive functioning.

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Crosley Law: Fighting for Traumatic Brain Injury Victims in San Antonio and Throughout Texas

At Crosley Law, we understand that winning a brain injury case, especially one where the injury is not outwardly visible, requires commitment, dedication, and hard work. We apply our knowledge of complex medical fields, including neuroradiology, neuropsychology, neurology, and injury rehab, to our clients’ claims. Because of our track record of success handling complex brain injury claims, other lawyers frequently refer brain injury victims to Crosley Law.

If you or a loved one is coping with the effects of a traumatic brain injury, complete our online contact form or call our San Antonio, TX personal injury law firm at 210-LAW-3000 | 210-529-3000. We can help you better understand your injuries and legal rights, your initial consultation with an attorney is always free, and our no-fee policy means you won’t pay a cent unless we can get you a settlement or win your case in court.

References

Brain injury statistics (2017). Texas Brain Injury Alliance. Retrieved from http://www.texasbia.org/about-brain-injury/brain-injury-statistics/

The Texas Brain Injury Advisory Council 2018 report. (2018, December). Texas Brain Advisory Council. Retrieved from https://hhs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/documents/laws-regulations/reports-presentations/2018/texas-brain-injury-advisory-council-report-dec-2018.pdf

The content provided here is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice on any subject.