Lawyer Reveals How to WIN BIG in Concussion Claims

I'm going to reveal how to increase your odds of a big payout if you've suffered a concussion in an accident. We'll also talk about which concussion injury cases are usually worth the most and how much they may be worth. We'll first focus on the value of your pain and suffering. That's by far the hardest part of the case to calculate. Figuring out how much you're owed for your medical bills and lost wages is usually much easier than figuring out how much your pain and suffering is worth. When we calculate how much your case may be worth, we add your pain and suffering, medical bills, and lost wages up. This gets us to the full settlement value, but there's no guarantee that you'll get paid the full settlement value. This is because there are many factors that can destroy your case. The complete list of things that can make your case worthless is simply too long to list here. To keep it simple, just know that the three main case killers are the following. No one else is at fault, or you're mainly at fault, the accident wasn't bad enough to cause your concussion, or the at fault person or company doesn't have insurance or money to pay you. I'll give you a quick example of one of these case killers in action. Let's assume that you're in a car when another car is heading towards you and tries to make a left turn in front of you. You crash, or maybe you're riding a motorcycle and a careless driver hits you. Either way, you crash with another car. You go to the hospital and tell the doctors that you have a headache. Since you've told them that you were in a car accident and have a headache, they may say that you have a concussion. A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury that affects brain function. During a concussion, your head shakes and your brain moves either forward or backward or side to side or both. But let's assume that you also have one of the factors that destroys your case. For example, let's say that the other car that was at fault has no insurance or money to pay you. To keep it simple, let's assume that the full value of your pain and suffering is $10,000. Now please don't get too fixated on this $10,000 amount. I'm using it just to explain how one of the common case killers works. We'll get into actual concussion settlement values in a moment and simple steps that may increase your odds of winning big. The full value of your pain and suffering assumes that the at fault person or company is 100% at fault and they caused your concussion. In this example, we'll assume that the other driver was 100% at fault. However, if the at fault person or company has no insurance or money to pay you, you might not get paid a dime. Your case is only as good as your ability to collect from the other person or company. So even though in this example, this concussion may have a full value of pain and suffering worth $10,000, you might not even get a penny. This assumes that the at fault person or company has no coverage or money to pay you. Sadly, most drivers are either uninsured or don't have enough insurance. I know it's not fair, but that's the way our system works. Now, if a large company caused your accident and injury, then whether they have insurance doesn't matter much. For example, let's say that a Walmart truck hits you. Since Walmart is a huge company, they'll have enough money to pay your claim. This is true no matter how big your concussion claim is. But what happens if someone else is at fault, but you are also partially at fault? In this instance, you're only able to recover in proportion to the careless person's percentage of fault. It may sound complicated, but it's not. Let's assume someone else is 75% at fault and you're 25% at fault in causing your accident. In this instance, you can only get compensated for 75% of the full value of your case. Thus, your percentage at fault has a huge effect on your concussion case value. When I expose the full value of pain and suffering for concussions, I'll give a range. Like any range, it has a low end and a high end. The low end is when you heal well. The high end is if one of the following applies. You're left with a larger disability from the concussion, you have a long extended period of treatment, or you have lots of issues. There's a couple of big reasons why many people injured in car and truck accidents or slip and falls don't get fairly compensated for their concussion. The first reason is that after you go to the emergency room, the ER may tell you to follow up with your primary care physician. That's the doctor you see if you're sick or for your annual physical exam. A lot of these doctors will tell you that your concussion isn't a big deal and you will be fine. And as a result, many people with concussions listen to these doctors. These people don't see a specialist doctor called a neurologist for their concussion. There's two problems with this. First, you may not be getting the treatment that you need. This is especially true if you're having any one of the following symptoms. Memory issues, confusion, difficulty concentrating, difficulty solving problems, difficulty making decisions, issues with balance, bad headaches, nausea, vomiting, sleeping too much, and many more. If you have any of these symptoms and you had a concussion during the accident or hit your head, you should see a neurologist. There's specialists for concussions so you'll get good treatment. And they know all the questions to ask you to see how much you've cognitively been affected by the accident. Cognitive sounds like a fancy word, but it just means anything to do with thinking, learning, and understanding. And it's where the bigger settlement value is in concussion claims. Cognitive is how your brain works when you solve problems, remember things, make decisions, or figure things out. So when someone talks about their cognitive skills, they're talking about how well you can think, understand, and learn new things. This affects almost everything you do in daily life, which is why some concussions can be worth a lot of money. One of the first things they'll do at the hospital if you're complaining of a head injury is usually give you a CT scan, also called a CAT scan. Most of the time the CT scan doesn't show anything wrong with your brain. That's good news for your health, but what does it mean for your case? Well you can still have a good case even if the CT scan doesn't show a brain bleed, swelling, or large shifts after an accident. A neurologist will usually also send you to get an MRI of your brain. MRIs show detailed images and are better at detecting things like small brain shifts, bruising, or microbleeds that may not show up on a CT scan. MRIs can show soft tissue and brain changes in greater detail than a CT scan. Brain shifting, bruising, or microbleeds can add substantial value to your pain and suffering claim, but most of the time you won't have any of those, which is good for your health. However, you can still have a good case even if your MRI shows that nothing is wrong with your brain. The value of your pain and suffering in your accident claim after a concussion largely depends on two things. If you're having cognitive issues and how long you see a neurologist for. If you're having more thinking or memory problems and need to see a neurologist for a longer time, it can make the full value of your pain and suffering higher. On the other hand, if you're having fewer thinking or memory problems and only see the neurologist for a short time, the value of your pain and suffering will be lower. If you're having trouble thinking, learning, or understanding, but you don't tell a doctor, you won't get paid for it. The other person's or company's insurance won't pay for it. This is true even if you tell the insurance adjuster that you're having these cognitive issues. What matters the most is what the doctor writes down in their medical records. And they can only write down your complaints if you go to the doctor and you tell them the issues that you're having. If you have a concussion and another injury, you add up your pain and suffering values for each injury. This is why the concussion cases that are often worth the most are those where you have an additional injury in addition to the concussion. The insurance company is going to pay close attention to your first complaints after the crash or other accident. So if an ambulance came to the accident scene and paramedics examined you, get that medical record. The paramedics will have written down on the record what you complained of. You'll be looking for buzzwords like patient seems confused or can't remember how the crash happened. Those aren't the only two buzzwords, but you get the idea. Send your paramedic record to the insurance company for the careless driver or company. And you or your lawyer should point out these buzzwords to the insurance company. If you saw stars or felt dazed after the crash, tell this to your doctors. These are signs of a minor traumatic brain injury or concussion. But the paramedic records aren't the only place to look for signs that you've had a concussion. If police came to the accident scene, request their body worn camera. It may show you looking dazed, confused or having issues with balance. Those may all add value to your case. The insurance company is also going to take a hard look at the degree of impact in your accident. If it's a heavy impact crash, they may not bite your concussion claim as hard. Your case is also better if you struck your head on the side of the door or if your car spun around or flipped after the crash. This is because those types of accidents are more likely to cause a minor traumatic brain injury or concussion. If you're still having cognitive issues for six or more months after your accident, your neurologist may consider ordering a neuropsychological test. If you have that test done and it reveals issues, this further increases the full value of your pain and suffering. This is because it's actual testing and not just your complaints. Your credibility is huge where you claim that an accident caused your concussion and it should be. The insurance company will think you're faking your symptoms if they catch you in any lie in your case. And I don't blame them. Don't ever lie when making a personal injury claim. Nothing and I mean nothing can destroy your case faster than lying. If you have a minor traumatic brain injury with some minor cognitive issues that lasts about one year, the full value of pain and suffering is likely between $100,000 and $150,000. If the symptoms last around two years, the full value of pain and suffering can go up to around $150,000 to $200,000 or so. And if your minor traumatic brain injury is more serious, the full value pain and suffering can go up to $250,000 to $500,000 or more. You then add your medical bills owed and your lost wages to get the full value of your case. You then need to cut that amount by any factors that decrease the full value of your case. That could be your fault in the accident or difficulty proving that the other side is at fault. The thing is so many people don't get paid fair value for their concussion because they don't use a simple claim trick. I've used this easy tactic to get combined settlements of several million dollars in concussion and other injury cases. I reveal what this tactic is in the video that's on screen now and linked in the description below so watch it now. And if you've suffered a concussion in an accident in Florida or on a cruise and you think someone else is at fault, click the link in the description below to see if I could be the lawyer for you.