Cases We Handle

Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Attorneys

What distinguishes us from all other life is the complexity of the human brain.

A young single woman was a back seat passenger of a car that was being driven by a drunk driver which drove head-on into a stopped tractor trailer in the left lane of the lower level of the George Washington Bridge, suffering a subdural hematoma causing brain damage and epileptic convulsions. Michael Maggiano was able to establish that the tractor trailer operator failed to follow federal standards as to the location he brought his vehicle to a stop due to a flat rear tire and improper placement of warning signals. The case settled during trial for $2,500,000.

This mass, which typically constitutes less than three percent of our weight and less than five percent of our volume, generates all of our thoughts, all of our emotions and every action we take, no matter how large or how small, no matter how gross or how fine, no matter how significant or how insignificant. We are what we are, and who we are, because we have a brain.

There is no greater challenge for a trial lawyer than to speak for the brain injured. We are proud of our decades of fighting for the rights of the brain injured in the courts of New Jersey and New York.

Frequently the presentation of such a case requires the greatest of dedication to a client who can no longer think or speak for herself; it is our duty to communicate in the most eloquent of ways who this person once was before she or he became so tragically changed.

The presentation of such a claim involves great investigative skills, combing through school records, employment records and reams of medical and hospital records as well as diagnostic test results. It also requires the retention of superb specialists which may include experts from the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychology, psychiatry and psychology, rehabilitation and social services, employability specialists, life care planners, and finally an economist to put all the costs together in present value terms for claims adjusters and if need be, a jury, to understand. It involves the tireless effort to find friends, family, co-workers, neighbors and acquaintances to tell the story of who this person once was.

Please contact our brain and spinal cord injury attorneys for a free consultation. Call us at 201-585-9111, or contact us today with our quick inquiry form. We handle brain and spinal cord injury cases in New Jersey and New York.