Traumatic Brain Injury Claims: Navigating Litigation Complexities
Assessing TBI Claims, Negotiating Settlements, and Leveraging Expert Witnesses to Strengthen Your Case
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide practical guidance to personal injury attorneys for pursuing or defending traumatic brain injury (TBI) claims. Our panel will explain best practices for assessing a potential TBI injury client, collecting and presenting medical records and materials, developing high impact expert witness testimony, and pulling together other evidence to position a TBI case for settlement or trial.
Outline
- Client intake
- Characteristics of TBI clients
- Assessing injuries
- Quantifying damages
- Settlement considerations
- Insurance carrier negotiation challenges
- Collecting and presenting evidence
- Trial considerations
- Effective use of expert witnesses
- Types of expert witnesses in TBI cases
- Neuroimaging
- Effective use of a lay witness
- Effective use of expert witnesses
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- The systems available to personal injury attorneys to screen potential TBI clients and begin cases on solid footing
- How attorneys on both sides of a case should evaluate medical causation and quantify TBI damages
- Best practices for selecting experts and assessing the need for a TBI victim to seek out specialist care, undergoing neuropsychological testing, and receiving further diagnostic testing
- Strategies for presenting evidence of cognitive and behavioral dysfunction to adjusters, defense counsel, and jurors
- Effective use of neuroimaging in support of your case
- How expert and lay witnesses can impact your TBI case during discovery, litigation, and trial
Faculty
Thomas Crosley
Founder
Crosley Law
Mr. Crosley has tried 50 cases as first-chair trial counsel, including personal injury and wrongful death cases arising... | Read More
Mr. Crosley has tried 50 cases as first-chair trial counsel, including personal injury and wrongful death cases arising from automobile and trucking accidents, defective products, medical malpractice, and related areas. Mr. Crosley is board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is board certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a past President of the San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association, and is the current President of the American Board of Trial Advocates (inducted 2004, Secretary, 2014, Treasurer, 2014, Vice President 2015, President Elect 2016, and President 2017).
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Dr. Matthew J. DeGaetano
Program Director and Founder
Personal Injury Institute & Axon Medical Centers
Licensed as a chiropractor, Dr. DeGaetano has worked with medical doctors, chiropractors and law firms all over the... | Read More
Licensed as a chiropractor, Dr. DeGaetano has worked with medical doctors, chiropractors and law firms all over the United States to help professionals work together across disciplinary lines. His areas of expertise include whiplash and brain trauma, the biomechanics of spine trauma, soft tissue injury and repair, pain and proprioceptive neurology, and the management of spine and spine-related disorders.
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John Jerry Glas
Chair, Civil Litigation Department
Deutsch Kerrigan
Mr. Glas has tried more than seventy jury trials to verdict, and his practice includes significant experience handling... | Read More
Mr. Glas has tried more than seventy jury trials to verdict, and his practice includes significant experience handling traumatic brain injury cases and jury trials. He also is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Law School, where he has taught a Trial Practice core curriculum class every spring semester since 2009.
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