Brain Injury - An Often Overlooked & Invisible Injury
Last month there was a meeting in Atlanta of The Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America and The Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. One of our trucking injury attorneys attended that meeting where there was a presentation on Traumatic Brain Injury. Our law firm has handled many cases involving brain injury that resulted from either a tractor trailer truck accident or automobile accident.
Because many brain injuries occur as a result of tractor-trailer accidents and are frequently overlooked, because lawyers are concentrating on the obvious orthopaedic injuries sustained in those accidents, one of the presentations was devoted to educating attorneys on some of the signs and symptoms of brain injury and concussions. It is important to understand that many symptoms following a concussion are not immediately evident and may take days or weeks to become apparent. Accordingly, many times there is a need to have a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment to assess and document the long term consequences of this invisible injury.
Each year over 5,000 men, women and children are killed on America’s highways as a result of a crash with a big truck? Far too often these truck wrecks were caused by the violation of government safety laws which are designed to regulate tractor trailers and other interstate trucks. These regulations govern truck speed, truck safety devices, proper truck maintainece, truck driver training, the number of hours the truck drivers can remain behind the wheel and proper back ground checks by the trucking company on their drivers both before being hired and thereafter on a periodic basis.
The law firm of Finch McCranie, LLP is well versed in these trucking regulations and has experience in representing the victims of interstate truck accidents.
