Brain Injuries

I recently had the opportunity to meet with a client who struck her head in a violent car accident. At the emergency room, she was diagnosed with a mild concussion and despite the fact that she continued to exhibit symptoms a week after the accident including but not limited to vomiting, nausea, loss of memory, and anxiety, she could not get an appointment with a proper neurologist for a month. The experienced [...]

A woman was severely injured in a hit-and-run pedestrian accident on Wednesday, February 2, according to The Delaware County Daily Times. Police are still searching for the driver. The woman was walking along Cedar Lane on her way to the supermarket when she was struck from behind by a motor vehicle. She suffered several injuries in the accident, including hip fractures and brain injuries. She was taken to the Hos [...]

On November 9, a man working outside a New York high-rise building was injured after being struck by an HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) unit that fell 15 stories from an apartment building on Park Avenue, reports NJ.com. In 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were 349 worker fatalities in which the worker was struck by a falling object or falling equipment. Unfortunately, injurie [...]

Police in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania are saying that a construction worker is lucky to be alive after an 88,000-pound backhoe he was operating crashed through part of a Pennsylvania bridge about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia. According to an Associated Press news report, the backhoe's cab was crushed against the bridge. The worker wasn't seriously injured in this construction accident in Pennsylvania, but a hea [...]

A 16-year-old pitcher playing for the Marin County Athletic League in California was hit by a line drive and suffered a brain injury. According to this article, the League is now banning the use metal bats at high school games. They will require its 10 teams to use wooden bats. The article reported that advocates of the ban believe that metal bats allow the players to hit the ball harder, reducing a player’s rea [...]

The mother of an Illinois high school football player is suing his football coach and the district. According to an article in USA Today, she claims her son sustained permanent, stroke-causing brain injuries during a game after the linebacker’s complaints of a headache and signs of a concussion went ignored. The mother has accused the high school coach of recklessly endangering his players by such tactics as con [...]

A top executive at TD Bank died of brain injuries on August 7 after falling out of a moving golf cart at a fund-raiser for a NJ high school. According to this article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a 44-year-old man of Moorestown, NJ was a passenger in the cart at Rancocas County Club Golf Course in Willingboro Township, NJ. He fell out of it and was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where he later died. The man w [...]

Natasha Richardson, the Tony Award-winning actress, died at the age of 45 Wednesday from head injuries caused by a fall during a skiing lesson in the Laurentian hills. According to one story, a spokeswoman for the ski resort, Lyne Lortie, said that Ms. Richardson was not wearing a helmet. “It was a normal fall; she didn’t hit anyone or anything,” Lortie said. “She didn’t show any signs of injury; she was [...]

Two bridge-builders working on the Pennsylvania Turnpike were injured when a ten-foot circle of steel tipped over and them along with parked cars. The two men were immediately taken to local hospitals with what was thought to be non life-threatening injuries, according to the Parryville Fire Chief. They are employees of Walsh Construction and were working on laying the steel framework for a column support for a bri [...]