A brain injury changes everything. If you or someone you love suffered a TBI in an accident, our team is ready to fight for the full compensation you deserve.

What Is a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?

A traumatic brain injury occurs when a sudden impact, jolt, or penetrating injury disrupts normal brain function. TBIs range from mild concussions with temporary symptoms to severe injuries causing permanent cognitive, physical, and behavioral changes. Car accidents, truck collisions, falls, workplace incidents, and assaults are among the most common causes we see.

What makes TBIs particularly challenging is that symptoms are not always immediate. Headaches, memory problems, mood changes, and difficulty concentrating can emerge days or weeks after the accident, making early medical evaluation and documentation critical to both recovery and any legal claim that follows.

Types of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?

Not all brain injuries present the same way. As your brain injury lawyer in Redondo Beach, we handle claims involving every severity level and injury type, including the following:

There are four types of brain injury:

  • Concussion. The most common type of brain injury, concussion occurs when the brain is shaken. It may result in disorientation, confusion, memory loss, and headaches
  • Contusion. Typically caused by impact to the head, contusion is a bruise on the brain caused by leaking blood. Depending on the severity of the blow, contusion may result in a loss of consciousness, tiredness, confusion, agitation or distress. In severe cases, it may cause the brain to swell
  • Penetrating Injury. A penetrating injury occurs when an object from inside the body, like a piece of the skull, or outside the body, like a bullet, penetrates the brain. Symptoms may include a loss of consciousness, bleeding from the wound, bleeding from the ears, seizure, paralysis, loss of bowel or bladder function, and coma
  •  Anoxic Brain Injury. When the brain does not receive enough oxygen, it will begin to die. This in anoxic brain injury. Symptoms may include confusion, feeling woozy, nausea, loss of consciousness, severe headache, and tingling or loss of sensation in the arms or legs

If you have sustained a brain injury in an accident, Kirtland & Packard may be able to help you get justice. Call our Redondo Beach office at (310) 536-1000 to schedule a free case evaluation and learn more. We serve victims of serious injury living in Torrance, Manhattan Beach, and all surrounding South Bay communities.

Levels of Brain Injury | Mild, Moderate, and Severe TBI | Symptoms of TBI

Leading Causes of Brain Injury

According to the CDC, falls are the leading cause of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Being struck against an object – such as a windshield – is the second leading cause of brain injury. It makes sense that motor vehicle accidents and falls are the leading causes of hospitalization for TBI, accounting for 72% of all post-emergency admissions related to brain injury.

TBI is often a result of slip and fall accidents. It may also be caused by:

Regardless of its cause, TBI typically necessitates both immediate and long-term medical intervention. Depending on the severity of the injury, it may also result in an inability to work for extended periods of time and require lengthy recovery and rehabilitation. If your TBI is the result of someone else’s negligence, you have every right to hold that party accountable and to seek compensation for all related damages.

How We Can Help

The brain injury attorneys Los Angeles at  Kirtland & Packard have decades of experience helping victims of serious injury get justice. Our team of brain injury lawyers can review your case free of both cost and obligation to help you determine if you have cause to file suit, and we are prepared to take viable cases as far as needed to help secure full compensation for men and women struggling with the consequences of brain injury.

Costs Associated with Brain Injury

Costs associated with brain injury may include:

  • Emergency and initial hospitalization
  • Speech and language pathology
  • Physical and occupational therapy
  • Neuropsychology
  • Counseling services
  • Around the clock medical assistance
  • Adaptive technology

Depending on the severity of your injury, it may not be possible to regain lost abilities and, even with therapy, victims of brain injury are more likely to suffer dementia, experience mood swings and disorders, and die prematurely. Insurance settlements do not take the pain and suffering associated with TBI into account. Only an experienced attorney will do that. Only with the help of a brain injury lawyer can you be sure that all of your damages are being considered and everting possible is being done to secure the true compensation your injury demands.

Our award-winning and top-rated Redondo Beach personal injury attorneys have the experience, resources, and tenacity to help. Schedule your free consultation today to learn more.

Why Choose Kirtland & Packard as Your Brain Injury Lawyers?

  • Decades of catastrophic injury experience: We have represented seriously injured clients throughout the South Bay and Los Angeles since the 1930s, including some of California’s most complex TBI cases.
  • Medical and expert resources: We work with neurologists, neuropsychologists, and life-care planners to document the full scope of cognitive, physical, and behavioral injuries.
  • Full lifetime damage calculation: As a law firm in Redondo Beach with deep litigation experience, we calculate lost earning capacity, future care costs, and non-economic losses, not just current medical bills.
  • Trial-ready representation: Insurers take TBI cases more seriously when opposing counsel is prepared to litigate.
  • No fees unless we win: Every brain injury case is handled on a contingency basis. You pay nothing unless we recover compensation on your behalf.

Contact Kirtland & Packard for a Free Consultation

To schedule your Free consultation at our Redondo Beach office, please call (310) 536-1000 today. Kirtland & Packard welcomes clients from Manhattan Beach, Torrance, Gardena, Hawthorne, and all surrounding areas of Southern California.