If you’ve had an accident that wasn’t your fault then once the medical concerns have been taken care of it is often a matter of talking to an injury claims lawyer to find out if you are entitled to compensation. However, in more serious cases such as brain injury, it’s not just the financial concerns that take precedence. A serious brain injury is a life-changing event. Unlike a relatively minor injury like whiplash, a brain injury can mean a lifetime of care and a complete change in how you and your family live their lives. So in cases like this, how much help can your legal team provide?

Family Support

Sometimes all the family needs is someone to talk to who can give them simple answers and practical support. Because of the close relationship between specialist serious injury lawyers and their clients, that support often turns into long-term friendships and a strong bond of trust builds between the family and the lawyer. Having someone to trust can mean a great deal to the victim of a serious brain injury and their families. It’s not just about the money. It’s about getting justice, getting the support and help you need and knowing that you have people in your corner fighting on your behalf.

Financial support

An ordinary lawyer may be able to represent your interests in a court, but serious injury specialists have a far broader spectrum of support to offer. Because serious injury cases such as brain injury compensation claims are often more complex in nature, serious injury specialists take on fewer cases than ordinary lawyers. This means that they get to know each individual case in far greater depth, often forming a close personal friendship with the victim and family themselves. This does not color their judgment of the legal process, but instead enables them to better understand the individual circumstances of their clients and their specific needs.

Specialist serious injury lawyers can also help in more practical ways too. Due to the nature of their business they can call on the expert help of a wide range of medical specialists who can provide both expert testimony during the compensation claim process and also specialist medical treatment for the victim. In head injury cases, the experience of a neurologist familiar with trauma injuries, for example, can make a huge difference to the long term treatment path that’s taken. It can also enable the victim to access special therapies that they may not have been able to if they had remained with the usual primary care providers.

If liability is admitted, then a specialist legal team can often get the process moving much more fast. While it may take some time for the courts to decide the final compensation amount (taking into account the long-term nature of a serious brain injury, they can help to alleviate immediate financial concerns by arranging an interim payment. These ‘advances’ on the final compensation amount can help to take the financial worry off the shoulders of both the victim and their families, particularly if the victim was the major wage earner in the home.

Interim payments can also help to pay for practical help for the victim such as home alterations. Thanks to their extensive network of contacts, specialist legal advisors can often call on the services of specialist builders who are familiar with the challenges faced by head injury victims. By arranging an interim payment and liaising with a specialist building firm, a serious injury lawyer can help the victim to move out of primary care and back into the home more fast. It has been proven through extensive research that victims of serious injury make a fuller and faster recovery if they are in an environment that they are familiar with and feel comfortable in.