You have to look at every injury and say, “Okay, how is this going to appear to 12 or 14 jurors if we end up in trial?” We have a very specific way of working those cases up. And they start with us doing our own kind of assessment of our client by asking them a range of questions that most doctors, even neurologists, do not ask people.
So we ask them questions to elicit symptoms that they may be experiencing that healthcare professionals have not identified. So once our client’s diagnosed with a TBI, then it’s a question of getting them worked up appropriately so that we can actually show jurors damages. The way that we show that is that we have our clients evaluated by a top neurologist that is an expert at doing these things. We do have them go through high-definition MRIs to see if there are other hints of it going on, and we gather all of our client’s pre-wreck indicators of their intellectual function. Then the neuropsychologist gets test results back and they say, “Hey, these test results are inconsistent or show a decrease in function from the pre-wreck documents that we have.”
But in those cases where it doesn’t show up on an MRI, we basically establish it through witnesses that know the client the best. And they testify and talk about what’s the difference between this person before and then this person after.
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