Blog: Brain Injury

Long-Term Effects of Brain Injury After a Car Accident

May 16, 2025

Suffering a brain injury in a motor vehicle accident can change the victim’s life forever. The brain is a sensitive and highly complex organ that controls thoughts, feelings, emotions and motor function. A moderate to severe brain injury could result in long-term or irreversible symptoms and effects. Physical Symptoms A traumatic brain injury can cause several physical symptoms that are either immediately noticeable to the car accident victim or appear over the next few hours...

Workers’ Compensation for Head and Brain Injuries

Oct 10, 2024

If you get injured at work and are diagnosed with a head, skull or brain injury, you could be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits in Pennsylvania. Find out how to file this type of claim and when you should hire a workers’ compensation lawyer in Pittsburgh to represent you for optimal case results. Can I File a Workers’ Comp Claim in Pennsylvania for a Concussion? Yes, concussions and other head and brain injuries are all...

Pennsylvania Motorcycle Helmet Laws

Apr 17, 2024

Before you ride a motorcycle in Pennsylvania, it is important to learn all of the state laws that apply to motorcycle riders and their passengers. For example, Pennsylvania has clear rules for when a motorcyclist must wear a helmet. Obeying these laws can keep you out of legal trouble and – more importantly – protect you in a motorcycle accident. What Is Pennsylvania’s Motorcycle Helmet Law? Under Pennsylvania law, every motorcycle rider and passenger must...

How To Tell If A Head Injury Is Mild Or Severe After A Car Accident

Feb 15, 2024

Following a car accident, a head injury is one of the more severe types of injuries you could suffer. Injuries to the head can damage many systems of the body, as the brain is the control center of the body. Because of this, determining how severe your head injury is after a car accident is vital. Keep in mind, however, that a mild head injury should still be taken seriously and provided medical treatment. Even...

Can You Get Workers’ Comp for a Seizure?

Dec 27, 2023

Seeking workers’ compensation benefits in Pennsylvania for a seizure is a more complicated process than other types of injuries, such as broken bones or soft-tissue injuries. Attorneys in Pittsburgh handling injury lawsuits explain that whether or not a seizure at work will be covered by workers’ comp depends on the circumstances. However, case precedent generally holds that seizures are covered injuries if they occur at a worksite. Work-Related Seizure vs. Non-Work Related The question typically...

Football and its connection to brain injuries

Nov 29, 2016

While the majority of the media's focus has been on brain injuries for professional football players, a growing body of research indicates that the majority of brain injuries related to football occur in middle and high school. A recent study by the Brain Injury Research Institute found that 20 percent of U.S. high school football players have suffered a brain injury at some point during the season. These are extraordinarily high numbers. High school players...

Pain and its connection to brain injuries

Nov 21, 2016

A new study from the University of Vienna has found that pain is far more complicated than initially believed. Every day people are plagued by amorphous pain that doctors cannot explain or treat (aside from prescribing pain pills which have their issues). Doctors are only recently beginning to understand the complexities of pain and how the human body interacts with it. The study found that pain occurs along neural pathways which are conducted to the...

Watch for these symptoms after a car accident

Oct 16, 2016

If you've been in a car accident in which you hit your head, but seem to be more or less fine, you may hope that whatever bruise or bump that appears will be the end of the story. However, brain injuries can be sneaky, and sometimes don't make themselves known for some time after the original injury. So how do you know if your brain was injured more than you may have realized? Whatever your...

Skull surgery can save lives, but at what cost?

Sep 11, 2016

After a traumatic brain injury, the brain often swells within the skull, which can cause further damage if the swelling is not reduced. There are two ways that physicians can reduce the swelling in such a patient: with drugs, or with surgery. A Cambridge University study now shows that the surgery could prevent half of deaths following a traumatic brain injury. However, survival after the surgery could come at the cost of a reduced quality...

Insurers look to exclude sports-related concussions

Aug 11, 2016

Athletes considering suing over a brain injury sustained in a contact sport may want to do so sooner rather than later. That’s because insurers, spooked by the increase in litigation over sports-related head injuries, may be moving to make exclusions for professional athletes who sustain head injuries during play. The insurance company AIG, for example, has already excluded head injuries from its policies covering NFL players, and has entirely stopped insuring Pop Warner, a youth...