The moment it happens-whether it's the sickening crunch of metal during a collision on the US-60, a devastating fall at a Mesa construction site, or a blow to the head at Superstition Springs Center-life as you know it can change forever. Brain injuries don't just leave physical wounds; they tear through the fabric of everything that makes you who you are. Your thoughts, memories, personality, and independence can all be compromised in an instant.
If you or someone you love is struggling with the devastating aftermath of a brain injury in Mesa, you don't have to navigate this overwhelming journey on your own. Law Bear will connect you with a fierce legal advocate who won't rest until you receive the compensation you deserve. Call Law Bear today at (309) 365-6510 for a free, no-obligation consultation.
Your Brain Injury Will Be Our Partner Attorneys' Concern, and They Know Brain Injuries Well
Our Mesa brain injury attorneys handle cases involving all types of traumatic brain injuries, including:
- Concussions: While concussions are too often referred to as "minor" traumatic brain injuries, they can have serious and lasting effects, especially when not properly treated or when someone suffers multiple concussions.
- Contusions: These brain bruises occur when the brain impacts the inside of the skull, causing bleeding and swelling. Contusions carry a high risk of death and disability, and therefore often warrant large financial recoveries for the victim.
- Diffuse axonal injuries: When violent forces whip your head during a collision, your brain can move within your skull, severing vital neural connections. This type of injury can severely impair your cognitive function.
- Penetrating injuries: When objects penetrate the skull and damage brain tissue directly, the direct damage can destroy brain areas controlling critical functions like speech or movement.
- Anoxic brain injuries: If your brain gets completely cut off from oxygen, even for minutes, brain cells die rapidly and permanently. This widespread cell death can erode the basic abilities, memories, and skills you've relied on your entire life.
Brain injuries can range from minor to severe, with medical professionals using a scale to measure severity. Even a "minor" brain injury can have life-altering consequences. Law Bear's partner Mesa brain injury attorneys understand the medical complexities of these injuries and will work with medical experts to document the full extent of your damages.
However Your Brain Injury Happened, Our Network Attorneys Will Demand Justice for You
Brain injuries can happen in countless ways, but some scenarios are particularly common in Mesa and throughout Arizona. Understanding these causes can help establish liability in your case. Our partner Mesa brain injury attorneys regularly handle cases stemming from:
Motor Vehicle Accidents
With major highways including US-60 and Loop 202 running through Mesa, high-speed motor vehicle accidents are, unfortunately, a common cause of traumatic brain injuries. These crashes often occur due to:
- Distracted driving: Drivers constantly endanger pedestrians when they text while passing Riverview Park or adjust GPS systems while navigating through Mesa's busy downtown intersections.
- Speeding: Motorists regularly put lives at risk when they accelerate well beyond posted limits on Southern Avenue and University Drive, giving themselves insufficient time to stop for crossing pedestrians.
- Impaired driving: Intoxicated individuals leaving establishments on Main Street after consuming alcohol create unpredictable threats as they weave through areas with heavy foot traffic.
- Fatigued driving: Drowsy commuters struggle to maintain proper alertness on long stretches of highway, often failing to notice pedestrians until it's too late to avoid a collision.
- Reckless driving: Impatient drivers regularly endanger lives when they race through red lights at dangerous intersections like Alma School Road and Broadway Road without scanning for people in crosswalks.
These dangerous driving behaviors have transformed Mesa's streets into hazardous zones where brain injuries happen far too often.
Falls
Falls are the leading cause of traumatic brain injuries nationwide, and falls happen in Mesa all the time. Specific types of falls that should prompt you to contact Law Bear include:
- Slip and falls
- Falls from heights
- Falls down stairs
- Falls from ladders
- Falls in nursing homes
When someone falls, it's typically a sign that someone, perhaps a property owner, did something to endanger the person who fell. This failure is grounds to seek compensation.
Workplace Accidents
Many Mesa residents work in industries with high risk for brain injuries, including:
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Warehouse work
- Agriculture
- Oil and gas
Brain injuries can happen in virtually any workplace. If your injury is work-related, you may have options beyond workers' compensation insurance. Let our partner attorneys evaluate and explain those options to you.
Acts of Violence
Unfortunately, violent acts can also cause traumatic brain injuries. In some cases, assaults, batteries, sexual violence, and other violent acts result from someone's failure to implement adequate security in residential complexes, businesses, public areas, and other locations. This can be grounds for a negligent security lawsuit.
No matter how your brain injury occurred, if someone else's negligence played a role, you deserve compensation. Law Bear's partner Mesa brain injury lawyers will thoroughly investigate your case to identify all potentially liable parties.
Our Partner Attorneys Will Prove That Negligence Caused Your Brain Injury. Here's How.
When clients like you come to our network attorneys, they are typically certain that someone caused them harm. It's their job to prove it.
There is a clear-cut sequence for proving negligence in brain injury cases, and that is:
- Establishing the Duty of Care
First, they must show that the defendant owed you a duty of care. Many parties in Mesa have a duty of care to act reasonably and try to prevent injury to others, and those parties include:
- Motor vehicle drivers
- Property owners
- Employers
- Product manufacturers
- Medical providers
- Government officials tasked with ensuring public safety
Establishing a duty of care is simply a matter of fact.
- Proving the At-Fault Party Breached Their Duty of Care
Next, they must demonstrate that the defendant breached their duty of care. When someone acts in a manner they can accurately describe as unreasonable, there is a good chance they've violated their duty of care.
- Proving That the Breach of Duty Caused You Harm
They must then show that the defendant's breach directly caused your brain injury. It often requires expert testimony to connect the specific mechanism of injury to the defendant's actions.
- Establishing Your Damages
Finally, they must document the damages you've suffered as a result of your brain injury. They will have proven how their negligence directly harmed you once they draw a clear line between the at-fault party's duty of care and your damages.
The Economic and Non-Economic Cost of Your Brain Injury
Brain injuries often result in extensive damages, both economic and non-economic in nature. Our partner attorneys will fight for full compensation for all of your losses, including:
Your Economic Damages
As the name suggests, economic damages are primarily financial in nature. They may add up bills or quantify costs (like lost earnings) to determine the value of these damages, which may include:
- Medical expenses, including emergency care (facilities like Banner Desert Medical Center provide such care, but at a potentially high cost), hospitalization, medications, and ongoing rehabilitation at facilities like Neuro & Brain Performance Centers in Mesa
- Lost income and earning capacity, including any compensation for work you've been unable to perform while recovering from the brain injury
- Home modifications, which are often a reality in cases where a brain injury results in long-term disability
- Long-term care costs, as family members are not always qualified or able to handle the demands of caring for a loved one with a brain injury
- Household services, as a brain injury might prevent the victim from handling household chores and responsibilities they previously managed
In cases where a traffic accident causes the injury, our clients often deserve compensation for vehicle repairs. Your Mesa brain injury lawyer will account for the full economic cost of your injury.
Your Non-Economic Damages
Pain and suffering is the most common type of non-economic harm in brain injury cases, and pain and suffering can include
- Physical pain and discomfort
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Emotional and psychological distress
- Loss of consortium
- Disfigurement
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
Law Bear is not interested in partial justice. Our partner attorneys intend to secure all the compensation you deserve for damages stemming from the brain injury.
Charging Toward Your Financial Recovery: How Our Partner Attorneys Will Fight for the Money You Deserve
You get a fighter when you reach out to Law Bear after a brain injury. Our partner attorneys fight with the tenacity of a grizzly to put their clients on the path to recovery. Here's what the process of securing a fair settlement or judgment typically looks like:
Build Your Case Foundation
When trauma leaves your brain damaged, our partner legal teams construct a rock-solid legal foundation for you. They may do this by:
- Visiting the location where you suffered a brain injury
- Interviewing witnesses who saw your injury happen (or the effects of the brain injury)
- Documenting the effects of the injury (which are your economic and non-economic damages)
They handle the investigative and legal work while you focus on the exhausting daily challenge of recovery.
Assemble Your Brain Recovery Team
They ensure thorough documentation of your injuries and resulting damages by relying on highly qualified medical experts. Those doctors can document your struggles with tasks you once performed easily and project your long-term care needs.
This team will provide medical proof that shows your injury isn't "just in your head" like insurance companies often claim.
Fight for Money That Reflects Your New Reality
A brain injury can challenge you in both expected and unexpected ways. They will document your damages and pursue fair compensation by:
- Calculating lifetime earnings losses from your cognitive limitations
- Documenting how your relationships have suffered from injury-related challenges
- Including costs for adaptive technology, new living arrangements, a disability-friendly vehicle, and other injury-related purchases
- Projecting future rehabilitation and therapy needs
- Negotiating or fighting in court for the compensation you deserve, persevering no matter how complex your case may be
They fight for money that reflects not just your current damages, but damages you are certain or likely to suffer down the road to recovery.
When You Need a Brain Injury Lawyer, Choose One Who Will Scratch and Claw for the Compensation You Deserve. Choose Law Bear.
The list of reasons to trust Law Bear with your potentially life-changing brain injury case is extensive:
Our Partners Fight Like a Bear for Their Clients
At Law Bear, our partner attorneys don't have a dog in this fight-they bring a bear. Just as a bear protects its family with unwavering ferocity, our network attorneys will fight relentlessly to protect your rights and secure fair compensation. Once they sink their claws into your case, they won't let go until you receive the compensation you deserve.
They Know Their Clients. They Care for Their Clients. Naturally, They Fight for Their Clients.
They understand that every brain injury case is unique, just as every brain injury survivor faces different challenges. Your attorney will take the time to understand your situation, concerns, and goals, providing personalized guidance throughout the legal process.
They Work on a Contingency Fee Basis
Many brain injury survivors and their families face significant financial strain due to medical bills and lost income. Our partner attorneys understand this challenging reality and work on a contingency fee basis, meaning you pay nothing upfront to secure quality legal representation. Your attorney only gets paid if and when you recover compensation.
Mesa Is Familiar Territory
Our partner attorneys know Mesa's local courts, insurance companies, medical providers, businesses, and public institutions. This local knowledge can be invaluable in navigating your case efficiently and effectively. Your attorney will know which judges and courts typically handle brain injury cases in Maricopa County, how local insurance companies approach settlement negotiations, and which medical providers in Mesa offer the best treatment for brain injuries.
Now Is Not the Time to Procrastinate. Call Law Bear Today for Your Free Consultation About Hiring a Mesa Brain Injury Attorney.
Living with a brain injury is hard enough without having to fight the legal system alone. If you or a loved one has suffered a brain injury due to someone else's negligence in Mesa, Law Bear is here to connect you with the help you need.
Don't wait to get the help you need. In Arizona, the statute of limitations restricts how long you have to file a brain injury claim, and critical evidence can disappear quickly. This is typically two years from the date of the accident. Contact Law Bear today at (309) 365-6510 to take the first step toward justice and recovery.