Accident Victims Beware: Injuries to the Brain Can Lead to Personality Changes
A brain injury can have a major impact on every aspect of your life. New York City brain injury lawyers provide help to victims who sustained injuries affecting their brain. Because of the severity of brain injuries and the extensive array of different symptoms and limitations you can experience as a result of brain injury, it is imperative to understand the full extent of damage when making a claim against someone who caused your brain to suffer harm. Brain injury can affect mood, cognitive function, mobility, your senses, and more. As BBC explains, brain injury can also result in changes to your personality.
Brain Injury Can Cause Changes to Your Personality
Traumatic Brain Injury: The Long Road to Recovery for NY Brain Injury Patients
Brain injuries can occur in many different ways, including automobile accidents and slip and falls. Whenever a brain injury occurs, it is important to understand the full extent of the damages and the costs and time associated with recovery. Recovering from a brain injury is often a long and arduous process that can be very expensive. New York City traumatic brain injury attorneys can provide insight into how you can pursue a claim for compensation for losses and damages if someone was responsible for causing your brain injury. A recent article in The Journal News highlighted some of the struggles brain injury patients go through as they try to recover. The story shared by the Journal News was about a 22-year-old who suffered traumatic brain injuries in a motor vehicle accident in New Rochelle. The young man was given just a three percent chance of surviving and a 10 percent chance of waking up from a coma. He did manage to survive the injuries, but his mother describes him as being “basically a newborn” as he must relearn everything he ever knew.
The Long Road to Recovery After a Brain Injury
BRONX: Scaffolding Collapse Seriously Injured Pedestrian In Norwood
Scaffolding Accident Seriously Injures Woman Walking With Her Children BRONX, NEW YORK (February 24, 2017) – A scaffolding accident in the Bronx left a woman walking her two children seriously injured as she was walking in Norwood, according to NBC News. Paramedics rushed to the scene of the accident and came across a female pedestrian […]
BRONX: Scaffolding Accident Leaves Woman Seriously Injured After High Winds Cause Collapse
Scaffolding Accident Seriously Injures Woman Walking With Her Children BRONX, NEW YORK (February 24, 2017) – A woman walking down the sidewalk on 3160 Webster Ave. near E. 205th St. in Norwood was seriously injured after a scaffold hit her in the head following heavy winds, according to NBC News. Emergency medical workers rushed to […]
Gloves, Hats and Goggles Are Cheap
You’ve heard the saying “penny wise and pound foolish” — but we don’t often notice when people are guilty of this kind of misjudgment. It happens all the time in individual households, and it happens just as often in business. One of the biggest examples of this kind of irrational judgment revolves around issuing personal protective equipment (PPE) to workers. Federal regulators like the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration provide guidelines that include giving workers access to proper and appropriate safety gear according to the work activities that are expected to be done on the job. Some of the most common forms of PPE include:
- Goggles
- Hard hats or helmets
- Work gloves
- Steel-toed shoes or boots
- Protective chemical suiting
A Trained Eye: Take Safety Seriously
Part of the training of an injury lawyer involves being able to look at a worksite and identify safety issues or potential liability. But sometimes, these skills are sadly misplaced. They should not just be part of the injury attorney’s toolkit — they should also be part of what a competent manager or supervisor or other business leader brings to the job. So often, when work injury cases go to trial, it’s because there are any number of skilled people in the justice system who can see clear evidence of negligence or lack of attention to safety, but in the days and weeks and months before an accident, there was no one onsite who could understand that poor safety precautions were a liability for the company.
A Culture of “Don’t Worry About It”
Snow Impedes Visibility
Many of us tend to think of this year’s hard winter as a challenge in extremely urban areas like downtown New York City, but it also has its effects out in other more rural areas of the state. Reporting from February from local broadcast affiliate WENY shows snowfall and other factors impacting the community of Elmira, New York, just above the Pennsylvania state line and not too far from the Great Lakes area, south of Rochester and Syracuse. Some of the challenges reported in Elmira are emblematic of what happened in a lot of communities around the state. Locals reported on snow piles in parking lots impacting visibility, and large piles of snow lowering sight distances on busy streets. Signage can also be covered up, and intersections can become a lot more hazardous, in these kinds of situations. Drivers can find it harder to watch out for pedestrians or cyclists. The unprecedented obstacles that snow piles present can be dangerous.
Public Works and Public Responsibility
Elmira officials quoted in the WENY coverage talked about the challenges of keeping snow plowed and figuring out where to put it. As discussed in this article, there’s a balance between getting snow off of roadways and putting it in places where it won’t impact visibility for drivers. Then there’s the responsibility of local businesses and households to remove snow and ice from their local areas.
Ski helmets and brain injuries: a mixed verdict so far
The recent traumatic brain injury suffered by Formula One racing star Michael Schumacher is very much on the minds of many New York ski enthusiasts as they head off to their favorite slopes to take advantage of this winter’s record snowfalls. One element of Schumacher’s injury at a French ski resort that has many skiers […]
Former professional hockey players pursue brain injury lawsuit
We New Yorkers love our sports teams, but some athletes are becoming concerned that their leagues do not show adequate concern about their well-being. We have seen an increase in reports of brain injuries in professional wrestling and football. This is due to advancements in research about traumatic brain injury and also the numerous lawsuits […]
Brain injuries range in severity, complications and outcomes
A brain injury is particularly hard for the person who was hurt and their loved ones as the prognosis is not always readily available. How well a person will recover — and if a full recovery is even possible — really all does depend on the person and how the brain injury occurred. Take for […]
