How can a South Carolina accident attorney help a brain injury victim and their family?

Whether you’re a family member or a survivor, coping with a traumatic brain injury from a South Carolina  accident can be overwhelming. You’re right to wonder if one more thing on your list—seeing a lawyer—can help.

The short answer. If you or a family member suffered a brain injury, you may be dealing with someone who’s unconscious or not in their right mind to make complex legal decisions. And soon the insurance company will descend, hoping to take advantage of your inability to handle an overwhelming situation to force a cheap settlement that you’ll regret the rest of your life. You could forfeit rights to compensation you’ll need in the future to cover lost wages or mountains of medical bills, plus compensation for the long-term or permanent damage to a survivor’s life from a TBI.

That’s why people like you need an experienced lawyer to lighten your load and show you the way. We help make sure the insurance company doesn’t take advantage of you, and if needed, get folks appointed in court to manage the survivor’s affairs. Check out our process to help get a South Carolina brain injury accident settlement.

Get your questions answered. We’re Spartanburg accident injury lawyers, and you can call us toll free at  (864) 582-0416 or fill out a Get Help Now form.

Specific Ways a Spartanburg Brain Injury Attorney Can Help

Here are just a few:

1. Provide peace of mind. It’s the number one unspoken benefit of an attorney you trust. You will know your legal rights and the evidence you need to win. Your rights and evidence may differ depending on whether you’re involved in a car wreck or motorcycle accident, an 18-wheeler accident, a slip and fall or trip and fall, or a work injury. Helping you learn those rights is one reason we wrote books on car and trucking accident and workers’ compensation cases. When you have an attorney you trust, you know you’re protected. You can return your full energy to the medical recovery process, knowing your legal care team is in place and at work for you.
2. Help with guardianship and conservator proceedings for adult brain injury survivors. These Probate Court procedures appoint a person, often a family member, to handle medical, financial, and legal affairs while the survivor is incapacitated by injury.
3. Gather evidence related to the case, or protect your right to it, before it disappears. Victims have to prove how they got hurt. You can’t risk someone destroying evidence you need to prove your right to potentially vital legal compensation.
4. Secure witness statements and contact information for later use. You don’t have time to run these people down.
5. Assess the amount of available insurance coverage to pay a settlement. While it’s maybe the most important question in your legal case, brain injury victims and their families are often shocked to learn you can’t always find out how much insurance the at-fault party has to cover medical bills, pain, and suffering. An experienced South Carolina accident injury attorney knows how to find out. It’s especially important in car accident cases. You might have coverage on your own policy. Discover how our attorney found way more coverage and earned a much bigger settlement for a Spartanburg-area motorcycle accident brain injury victim.
6. Deal with insurance company representatives. They look out for the insurance company, not you, no matter how nice they seem. You don’t need to worry about responding to their demands or waiting for them to call you back.
7. Guide you in protecting your rights to future medical care, whether it’s in the legal system or provided through work injury benefits in workers’ compensation. In workers’ compensation cases, you may qualify for permanent and total disability benefits or even highly extensive brain injury benefits—you can bet the insurance company will fight tooth and nail against paying these extremely expensive cases.

You Should Wonder, But Not Worry

I’ve been doing this long enough to know most people prefer seeing the dentist more than a lawyer, but sometimes you just need professional help. If you’ve got a brain injury or a family member with one, that time is now.

I promise we’ll work hard to make it as easy as possible on you. Call us toll-free at (864) 582-0416 or fill out a Get Help Now form.

And if you’re wondering what it will be like to meet with me, here’s what happens at our free*, no-obligation first meeting. And if you need me to, I can come to you.