Traumatic brain injuries are devastating and frustrating physically, financially, emotionally in every aspect of family and human life. They range from subtle cognitive, behavioral, and sensory alterations resulting from relatively mild head injuries where there is no obvious injury to the brain even on PET Scans, MRI’s and other diagnostic tools available to modern medicine to profound brain injuries resulting in persistent vegetative state lock in conditions and irreversible injuries to cognitive thinking, mobility, speech, hearing and virtually every other major system of the body.

Almost all traumatic brain injuries require a medical team approach that may include neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-psychologists, psychological and psychiatric counseling, physiatrists and other specialists in treatment and rehabilitation of people suffering such injuries. They also require specific legal talents. Experience working with medical and rehabilitation specialists to assist the patient and their families to be patient advocates. The attorney must understand the medical specialties involved, the brain injury resources and private and governmental assistance available, and all of the factors that may provide for recovery from at-fault parties, including liability insurance to individuals, corporations, businesses, manufacturers of defective products and other insurance coverages. The resources available for treatment and brain injury rehabilitation in Atlanta and the State of Georgia include excellent brain injury specialists and facilities such as Shepard’s Spinal Clinic, Walton Rehabilitation and Warm Springs. There are also specialized brain injury facilities available in Jacksonville, Florida, Arizona and Massachusetts which can often provide additional resources.

Hill and Bleiberg has successfully handled brain injury cases for almost 30 years and has had experience working with all of the facilities and most of the prominent medical specialists in the field throughout the State of Georgia and the United States. Some of the record verdicts, settlements and cases involving brain injury include Amy Smith v. Marta, Hemingway v. The United States of America, Benjamin v. Wellstar Hospital System, and Worthy v. Georgia Baptist Hospital and Central Anesthesia Associates. Gary Hill and Robert Bleiberg have been active members and participants in the Georgia Brain Injury Foundation and Brain Injury Association of America for many years.