Brain injuries often have long lasting, life changing impacts and making a claim is a way to fund the care and support you’ll need as well as offsetting the loss of earning potential that you or your loved one may now be facing.
We can help even when the person injured does not have the mental capacity to make the claim themselves. Our experienced team will explain your options in full.
We understand the needs of our clients and their families, and we succeed in complex, high-value brain injury compensation claims where others might give up.
BRAIN INJURY AS A RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT OR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE
Our team is experienced in helping people who have been affected by brain injury whether that is as a result of an accident or as a consequence of medical negligence. Sometimes brain injury is part of a larger serious injury claim.
We work with adults and children impacted by brain injury to ensure they, and their families, have all they need to live a secure and full life, despite the difficulties they have been through.
Where someone else was negligent in the cause of your brain injury, however it was caused, we can help.
This includes injuries incurred due to:
- A car crash, motorcycle accident or other road traffic incident
- Accident at work
- Clinical or medical negligence
- Sports injury
- Inadequate care during birth or pregnancy
- An incident involving an animal
I suffered serious head injuries following a road traffic accident. I don’t remember much about the accident but the doctors told me it was a miracle I survived. Stephen Walsh & Co. Solicitors came highly recommended and within an hour of meeting them I knew I had made the right choice. They gave me all the information I needed and advised me on the help they could offer me and I thought, my life is going to change for the better. They worked with all my doctors: ED Consultant. Neurosurgeon, Maxillofacial Consultant, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Psychiatrist and Clinical Psychologist. Although the other party attempted to contest liability Stephen and his team got a huge six figure settlement for me that has allowed me to move on with my life in the best way possible.
COMPENSATION CLAIM FOR BRAIN INJURIES IN CHILDREN
As a child’s brain has not fully matured, it means that the full extent of the damage from a child’s brain injury may not become apparent until all the parts of the brain have reached full development.
This means it can take years for you to find out exactly how your child has been affected, especially with younger children. Because of this, there are longer timescales in which to start a claim in the case of a child.
Following a brain injury, someone may find it difficult to concentrate, experience problems with co-ordination or speech, develop behavioural issues or suffer impaired mental capacity. Any of these can leave you needing extra support, which a claim can help towards.
Claiming compensation is about future-proofing and ensuring you have the financial support necessary to cope with your situation.
HOW MUCH COMPENSATION WILL I GET FOR A BRAIN INJURY CLAIM?
Compensation for brain injuries, especially severe brain injuries, is often very substantial and can run into hundreds of thousands, even millions of euros. The awards are so large in complex cases because they are intended to cover all the future needs someone will have as a result of the injury.
Compensation is made up of two elements – general damages and special damages.
The general damages element is intended to provide compensation for the pain, loss of amenity and suffering caused by a brain injury. There are guidelines on how much this part of the payment should be.
In addition to a general damages claim our traumatic brain injury solicitors will put together a special damages claim that is unique to you. This element of the claim can be very comprehensive as it is intended to itemise and cover for all your future and current needs in relation to the brain injury. That means everything from communication and mobility equipment and technology to house adaptations and carers.
It will take many months, usually years, to develop this list and negotiate a payment accordingly. We will always seek interim payments to cover immediate costs you may have before the final settlement is agreed. Interim payments can be substantial in themselves, and offer early financial relief when your resources are being strained by the increased expense of caring for a person with a brain injury.
