Posts under ‘Seattle traumatic brain injury attorney’

The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports that a 3 year-old boy received a severe brain injury at the University of Washington Medical Clinic at Roosevelt, and then later died.
KOMO TV reports that the boy’s name is Noah B. Bishop.  The King County Medical Examiner has stated the cause of death was cerebral and cerebellar laceration and [...]

You’ve been injured in an accident.  The accident was caused by someone else, so you have a claim against that person’s insurance company.
The full extent of your injuries may not be obvious immediately after an accident. Some people may feel that they did not sustain a serious injury, only to discover weeks or months later [...]

Ahhhh yes….. the most common question we receive at Davis Law Group, when it comes to representing accident victims who pursue claims for compensation as a result of personal injury.  That is the $64,000 question.
Sorry to disappoint but…… my stock answer is usually, “It depends…”  Depends on what?  Well, many things really.  In any given [...]

Back in late 2007, a King County jury awarded $15.5 Million to Maria Federici for substantial injuries she received when she was struck by a piece of furniture that came off the back end of another driver’s trailer.  That driver was pulling a U-Haul trailer and failed to secure his load.  The piece of furniture flew into [...]

As most people know by now, actress Natasha Richardson died following a minor head injury suffered while snow skiing.  Well, obviously it turned out not to be a minor head injury because she ultimately died.  When I say “minor” I’m referring to the classic definition that the medical community assigns to the severity of brain injuries.
 Let me first express [...]

Often I am asked what is the biggest mistake that personal injury victims can make.  I discuss the most common mistakes that I see representing personal injury victims in my book, “The Ten Biggest Mistakes That Can Wreck Your Washington Accident Case.”  But which one of these mistakes is the biggest? Or the most common?
To [...]

Friday, January 30, 2009
A serious car accident occurred today in the Interbay area, just south of Ballard in Seattle.  The accident involved a two-car, head-on collision which caused life-threatening injuries to both drivers.  Another passenger was taken to Harborview Medical Center by ambulance.
Negligent driving is the failure to exercise ordinary care, or the failure to [...]

Recently the Washington state legislature adopted a law that defines “traumatic brain injury” as:
…injury to the brain caused by physical trauma resulting from, but not limited to, incidents involving motor vehicles, sporting events, falls, and physical assaults. Documentation of traumatic brain injury shall be based on adequate medical history, neurological examination, mental status testing, or [...]