Severe and Moderate Brain Injury

California Catastrophic Brain Injury Litigation Attorneys

With more than 20 years of experience in complex traumatic brain injury litigation, the attorneys of Shea & Shea are nationally known for their insight, strategic understanding, and success in the proof and recovery of damages for brain injury claims. Our lawyers regularly work with experienced medical experts, medical economists, and life care planners in determining the scope and financial impact of a traumatic brain injury. We provide cost-data analyses regarding costs associated with future medical needs, in-home nursing care, medical equipment, lost wages, and diminished quality of life.

If you or someone in your family has suffered moderate or severe traumatic brain injury as the result of a car accident, a fall, or a workplace disaster, contact our San Francisco personal injury lawyers for a free consultation and reliable advice.

Traumatic Brain Injury — Addressing the Needs of Our Clients

Regardless of how your traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurred — a truck accident, a fall from an unguarded balcony, or a recreational boating accident — we will promptly go to work with a team of investigative, medical, and forensic experts in order to achieve the following objectives:

Ensure that you are receiving the care and medical attention you need to promote recovery and avoid aggravation of trauma and damage to the brain.
Work with you and your family to help resolve problems related to such symptoms as irritability, behavioral problems, memory loss, personality changes, or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Review or, if necessary, set up your case management plan to address all physical, psychological, and emotional aspects of your treatment and rehabilitation.
Make sure that all necessary tests are performed to identify and document the full range of neuropsychological deficits related to a closed head or penetrative injury that results in moderate brain damage or severe loss of cognitive function.
Double check neuro-diagnostic test findings that identify specific brain functions within normal ranges.
Project your future surgical, treatment, and rehabilitative needs, to the greatest degree of medical certainty possible.

Attorneys Experienced With Brain Injury Litigation In California, Across the United States and Europe

California traumatic brain injury attorney Michael M. Shea, Jr., concentrates his practice on personal injury litigation on behalf of persons with traumatic brain injury, acquired brain injury, permanent spinal cord damage, and other severe neurological problems. He has presented seminars for advanced professional audiences on brain injury litigation issues to the Brain Injury Association of Washington, D.C., the Brain Injury Association of California, and the Utah State Bar Association.

The AV-rated* law firm of Shea & Shea represents persons with moderate or severe traumatic brain injury all over California, and in other western states such as Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. We have even represented American military personnel and their families overseas in cases where traumatic brain injury was due to negligence. In a case involving an Air Force officer's wife in Spain, we recovered the largest brain injury settlement in European history.

You Pay No Attorneys Fees or Costs Unless You Win a Settlement or Verdict

At Shea & Shea, we advance at our own risk all of the expenses involved in supporting your damages claim with solid expert opinion and complete documentation. All brain injury cases are handled on a contingent fee basis, which means you pay no fees or costs unless we recover damages for you. We may also be able to help you resolve barriers imposed by insurers or HMOs in getting the tests or treatment you need to identify the specific nature and full extent of your brain injury, so that you can recover full compensation for your losses.

For more information about brain injury, visit our Brain Injury Information Center. To learn about our ability to represent your interests effectively in any moderate or severe traumatic brain injury case, contact a personal injury lawyer at our firm in San Jose.