Closed Head Injuries – Orange County, CA

A closed head injury is an injury to the head in which the wounds of the skull are not opened. In such brain injury cases, the injuries are caused internally and a thorough diagnosis must be obtained. Our Orange County, CA law firm handles all aspects of closed head injuries.

MR. JEFFREY T. ROBERTS: Most people think of brain injuries as a large open head wound and that is one type of head injury. But all too often the type of head injuries that we see here at our firm are what are called closed head injuries. That's when you've been involved in some kind of accident where your head was shaken and your brain actually moved inside your skull and impacted with your skull. This is called a mild traumatic brain injury. And there won't be any kind of scan that shows injury. There won't be any kind of external wound that shows injury, but where we know there's an injury is that our client is suffering from depression where they never had it or they are more aggressive at home and with their family members. They may have a loss of sense in their taste or their smell. And these are all indicators that they've actually suffered a brain injury. Many attorneys do not want to handle these kind of claims because they are difficult to document, they are expensive to document, but the fact is, if you have the injury it needs to be presented. And we here at the Roberts Law Firm don't shy away from that kind of case. And, in fact, if we see it from our clients, even sometimes they don't know that they've experienced, we want them examined. We refer our clients to a neuropsychologist who will conduct tests to determine that there is a closed head injury. Then partnering with that neuropsychologist our client can be referred to cognitive therapists that can help them get better, and often times are clients are happy to know that there's a reason for their changed behavior. And their family members are happy to know that at least there's a cause and hopefully through therapy they can recover.