As St Louis personal injury attorneys, we see and handle a lot of cases involving traumatic brain injury (TBI). A competent brain injury lawyer will actively follow new bills that are introduced pertaining to insurance regulations which, in turn, greatly affect our injured clients with head injuries.
Recently Fox news published an article on the injustices surrounding traumatic brain injury cases. Brain Injury Patients Face Double Injustice -- Trauma and Mounting Bills Not only do patients suffer physical injury, but they must also deal with the surmounting medical bills that medical insurance will not pay. Example, Corey Beattie, 18 years old, was involved in a truck accident when she was the passenger in a vehicle hit by a truck. It took two hours for rescue workers to remove her from the mangled car. She had a broken neck and multiple fractures. The doctors said that her brain "spun within the frame of her skull". Corey's mother was informed that she would need at least one year of consecutive inpatient rehabilitation. But like so many others, her insurance would only cover 6 ½ months of rehab. She was released and sent to outpatient therapy. Research suggests that with a severe brain injury such as this, the brain needs this 12 month window to have the best chance of rehabilitation and regeneration. The brain surgeon was overruled by bureaucracy.
Insurance companies are notorious for refusing to pay the ongoing treatment needed to complete rehabilitation in TBI and other serious medical cases. A New Jersey representative is advocating that congress step in to correct this issue. His proposal is to have the Department of Health and Human Services make treatment of TBI a benefit under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. He is suggesting that the government will be able to better determine the guidelines for what will and will not be paid with the intention that patients can get the ongoing care that they need. Whether or not this is the best solution, something needs to be done to fix this problem.
St Louis injury lawyer, Ben Sansone, has handled multiple severe brain injury cases to successful conclusions. Including just a few mentioned below:
$575,000.00 drunk driving car accident and brain Injury Settlement. Client was a passenger in the back of a vehicle struck by a truck driven by a drunk driver in Illinois.
A young boy that was struck in the head by a loose commercial door post while at school. The evidence shows that the school faculty were aware of the defective post the day prior but failed to repair or warn o the condition. This particular case is still pending, but we believe it is just a matter of time before the case settles favorably.
Head Injury from St Louis Auto accident. Minor physical injuries but client suffered post concussion syndrome (PCS) a minor form of head injury.
$500,000 settlement for St Louis construction worker struck on head with board and suffered a head injury.
f you or a loved one has suffered a traumatic brain injury, contact a Missouri personal injury attorney who is knowledgeable on current and proposed laws that greatly affect your family and your case.
