A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can disrupt your daily life and leave your family facing difficult medical and financial decisions. Working with an experienced Bronx brain injury lawyer from Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, P.C. gives you clear legal guidance while you focus on your health. We can handle the insurance issues, evidence, and legal deadlines involved in your claim.
Insurance companies sometimes try to resolve brain injury claims before the full long-term effects are clear. An early settlement might cover initial emergency care while leaving future occupational therapy, lost income, and other ongoing needs unaddressed.
We work with medical and financial professionals to document the full impact of your condition and pursue compensation for your current and future losses. Call (212) 543-1600 or fill out our online contact form to discuss your case for free with our Bronx team.
Why Trust Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, P.C. With Your Bronx TBI Claim
Brain injuries don’t always appear clearly on emergency scans. Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, P.C. brings the medical resources, investigative experience, and trial preparation needed for a serious Bronx TBI claim.
We work with neurologists, neuropsychologists, and rehabilitation specialists to document your symptoms, limitations, and future care needs.
Documenting Invisible Symptoms
Memory problems, mood changes, and reduced concentration can be difficult to show through medical records alone. We gather testimony, employment records, and testing that demonstrate how the injury changed your daily life.
Significant TBI Results
We’ve recovered more than $300 million for injured clients since 1974. Our attorneys secured a $4.42 million recovery for a young boy who suffered traumatic brain injuries and partial paralysis after a crash with a drunk driver.
We also obtained a $6.2 million resolution for a commercial driver disabled by a brain injury and a $3.35 million award for a patient whose cognitive trauma went undiagnosed by emergency-room staff.
Ready for Insurer Challenges
Insurance companies often dispute whether a brain injury is permanent or caused by the accident. Our team prepares the medical proof, expert analysis, and witness testimony needed to answer those arguments.
Call (212) 543-1600 or use our online form to speak with a Bronx brain injury lawyer today.
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How Our Bronx TBI Lawyers Prove Your Case Under New York Law
Our Bronx TBI lawyers prove your case by connecting your diagnosis, symptoms, and daily limitations to a recognized serious injury category under New York Insurance Law § 5102(d). Those categories include a significant limitation and a permanent consequential limitation.
Showing a Measurable Cognitive Limitation
Brain injury claims often turn on symptoms that don’t appear clearly on a standard scan. Memory loss, slowed thinking, poor concentration, headaches, and sensory problems can still be disabling, but they must be supported with objective medical evidence.
We can use neurological evaluations, neuropsychological testing, treatment records, and testimony from people who have observed the changes in you. This evidence helps show that the injury caused a meaningful limitation in a body function or system rather than a temporary complaint.
Connecting the TBI to Your Daily Life
The legal analysis also looks at what the injury prevents you from doing. A cognitive impairment could affect your ability to work, manage appointments, drive, care for your children, or complete familiar tasks without help.
Our team documents those changes through employment records, treatment notes, family testimony, and evidence of your routine before and after the crash. That comparison gives the insurer or court a clearer picture of the injury’s real impact.
What Causes Traumatic Brain Injuries in the Bronx?
Traumatic brain injuries are caused by an outside force, such as a blow, jolt, or penetrating injury to the head. A Bronx brain injury attorney can investigate how the trauma occurred, identify the responsible parties, and gather the evidence needed to support your claim.
Common causes include:
- Falls: Falls from construction sites, unsafe stairs, slippery floors, or other dangerous property conditions along Grand Concourse can cause serious head trauma.
- Motor Vehicle Accidents: Car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, and pedestrian crashes can subject the brain to sudden impact or rapid movement inside the skull.
- Violence: Assaults, domestic violence, gunshots, and other intentional acts can result in blunt or penetrating brain trauma.
- Workplace Accidents: Construction and industrial workers in areas such as Hunts Point can suffer TBIs in falls, equipment accidents, or incidents involving falling objects.
- Nursing Home Incidents: Falls, poor supervision, or abuse can cause head injuries in vulnerable residents.
- Boating Accidents: Collisions, falls, and impacts with equipment can cause significant brain trauma.
Proving Diffuse Axonal Injury With Medical Evidence
Our Bronx brain injury lawyers use MRI findings, neurological evaluations, and other medical evidence to document a suspected diffuse axonal injury. These injuries affect the brain’s white matter and can be missed on an initial CT scan, which is designed primarily to identify urgent problems such as bleeding.
A normal CT doesn’t rule out a TBI or explain away symptoms such as confusion, dizziness, memory problems, or reduced concentration.
Insurance companies can point to normal early imaging when disputing the severity or cause of your symptoms. We work with qualified neurologists and neuroradiologists to obtain appropriate testing and place the imaging findings within the full medical record.
Depending on your condition, that evidence can include:
- Conventional Brain MRI: An MRI can detect some nonhemorrhagic injuries and white-matter lesions that are less visible on CT.
- Diffusion-Weighted Imaging: This MRI sequence can help identify abnormalities associated with nonhemorrhagic diffuse axonal injury.
- Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging: SWI can improve the detection of small areas of bleeding or blood products that conventional imaging can miss.
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging: DTI can evaluate changes in white-matter pathways, but its findings must be interpreted carefully and generally should not be treated as conclusive proof of an individual patient’s injury or prognosis.
Verdicts and Settlements
$4,425,000 - Traumatic Brain Injuries
A young boy was left with traumatic brain injuries, including left arm and left leg partial paralysis, after a drunk driver struck the minivan in which he was a passenger. This verdict was listed as one of New Jersey’s Top 20 Personal Injury Awards in 2020.
$250,000 - Motor Vehicle Accident
84 year old man was sideswiped by moving car as he entered street to open his car door. He initially had no complaint of pain and refused emergency room 2 weeks later while visiting his family doctor an X-ray was done as a precaution and found a vertebral fracture and he had emergency surgery $250,000 was maximum available coverage.
$325,000 - Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
Awarded to a nursing home resident who developed a Stage IV ulcer requiring surgery where the nursing home alleged the resident was non-compliant with recommendations to reduce pressure from excessive wheelchair use.
How Neuropsychological Testing Supports a Bronx TBI Claim
A Bronx TBI lawyer can use neuropsychological testing to document cognitive, behavioral, and emotional problems that are difficult to see. Brain injuries can affect memory, concentration, judgment, and mood without leaving visible physical scars.
Standardized testing compares your performance with established norms and helps explain how those changes affect your daily life.
A neuropsychologist reviews more than test scores. The evaluation can include your medical history, education, work background, symptoms, interviews, and factors that could affect performance.
The findings don’t automatically prove that the crash caused every difficulty you’re facing, but they can help distinguish injury-related deficits from pre-existing conditions or other explanations.
We use these evaluations with medical records, imaging, employment evidence, and testimony from people who knew you before and after the accident. Together, that evidence can support your need for cognitive rehabilitation and show how the injury limits your independence or earning capacity.
The evaluation can examine areas such as:
- Executive Functioning: Tests can measure your ability to plan, organize, solve problems, and complete complex tasks.
- Processing Speed: The evaluation can show how quickly you understand information and respond to it.
- Verbal and Visual Memory: Testing can assess your ability to learn, retain, and recall spoken or visual information.
- Attention and Concentration: These measures can identify difficulty staying focused, shifting attention, or completing tasks.
- Emotional and Behavioral Functioning: Interviews and validated measures can document mood changes, impulsivity, irritability, and difficulty managing frustration.
Working With Bronx Medical Specialists After a TBI
A Bronx TBI attorney can work with your treating physicians at facilities such as Jacobi Medical Center and Montefiore Medical Center to build a medically sound claim. We review the records from your trauma team, neurologists, and other specialists to document the full scope of your condition.
Consistent medical documentation can affect how an insurer values your claim. Our team gets your hospital charts, surgical notes, diagnostic results, and specialist evaluations from the providers involved in your care. These records help connect your symptoms, treatment, and limitations to the brain injury.
Long-term rehabilitation can create needs that are not clear during emergency treatment. We work with vocational experts and life care planners to evaluate future therapy, assistance, equipment, and support. This evidence helps ground your settlement demand in your documented medical needs.
What Compensation Can You Pursue After a Brain Injury in the Bronx?
A Bronx brain injury lawyer can pursue compensation for the full medical, financial, and personal impact of your injuries. You usually have three years to file a lawsuit, and if you miss your deadline, you can’t get any compensation.
Serious crashes often cause more than brain trauma, including spinal cord damage, fractures, and other conditions that affect mobility, independence, and future care.
We work with medical specialists, vocational experts, and life care planners to document losses such as:
- Medical Care: Emergency treatment, rehabilitation, therapy, medication, and future procedures can be included in your claim.
- Lost Income: Compensation can account for missed work and reduced earning capacity caused by lasting cognitive or physical limitations.
- Long-Term Support: Home modifications, mobility equipment, personal assistance, and other ongoing needs can create substantial lifetime costs.
- Pain and Life Changes: You can also pursue damages for pain, disability, and loss of enjoyment of life.
When a crash on the Major Deegan or Cross Bronx Expressway causes several injuries, we also investigate every responsible party and available insurance policy. This helps ensure that no related injury or future need is left out of your claim.
FAQ for Bronx Brain Injury Lawyer
How Does a Bronx Brain Injury Lawyer Prove Permanency?
A Bronx brain injury lawyer can use medical records, specialist opinions, neuropsychological testing, and evidence of your long-term limitations to prove permanency. Your doctors can explain whether you have reached Maximum Medical Improvement and whether further recovery is expected.
Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, P.C. uses this evidence to seek financial recovery that accounts for your lifelong needs.
Can I Still Get Compensation for a TBI if My Emergency Room CT Scan Was Normal?
A normal initial CT scan is incredibly common with conditions like diffuse axonal injuries or mild concussions, but it doesn’t rule out compensation. We use advanced imaging and neuropsychological testing to document injuries that a standard CT scan may miss.
These specialized tests can provide evidence supporting your ongoing symptoms, and statements from those closest to you can testify to how the TBI has changed your life.
How Does New York’s Serious Injury Threshold Affect My TBI Claim?
New York’s serious injury threshold determines whether you can pursue pain and suffering damages after a motor vehicle crash. We work to connect your brain injury to a qualifying category, such as a significant limitation or a permanent consequential limitation.
Meeting the threshold doesn’t guarantee a particular recovery, but it allows the claim for non-economic damages to proceed.
Can I File a Bronx Brain Injury Claim for Personality Changes?
Personality, mood, and behavioral changes can support a Bronx brain injury claim when medical evidence connects them to the accident. We use neurological or psychological evaluations, treatment records, and testimony from people who knew you before and after the injury.
This evidence can show how the changes affect your relationships, work, and quality of life.
Who Pays My Immediate Medical Bills After a Bronx Car Crash Causes a TBI?
New York no-fault insurance generally covers qualifying medical expenses and part of your lost earnings regardless of fault. The responsible insurer depends on whether you were a driver, passenger, pedestrian, or cyclist, so it’s not always your own policy.
Our Bronx TBI attorneys identify the correct insurer and help you meet the 30-day notice and other filing requirements.
Put a Bronx Brain Injury Attorney on Your Side
A serious brain injury can affect your memory, work, relationships, and ability to live independently. Let Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, P.C. handle the insurance disputes, medical evidence, and legal deadlines while building a claim that reflects the full impact of your condition.
Call (212) 543-1600 or complete our online contact form to discuss your case for free. You can also visit our Bronx office at 930 Grand Concourse, Suite 1A, Bronx, NY 10451.
Bronx Office
Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, P.C.
930 Grand Concourse, Suite 1A
Bronx, NY 10451
Phone: (212) 543-1600
