Brain Injury Lawyer - New York

New text on life care plannning following a traumatic brain injury in children

The second edition of Pediatric Life Care Planning and Case Management has just been published.  The text includes a chapter that discusses Life Care Planning for the Child with Acquired Brain Injury. 

This text is an excellent resource for those interested in the long term consequences of traumatic brain injury and for attorneys who must present proof of the long term economic consequences of brain injury in courts of law.

You can order the text by clicking here.

Latest statistics on brain injury from CDC

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has released its Surveillance Summaries for Traumatic Brain Injury related deaths in the United States from 1997-2007.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States. During 1997–2007, an annual average of 53,014 deaths among U.S. residents were associated with traumatic brain injuries.  During this period, overall TBI-related death rates decreased 8.2%; by age group, the rates decreased among persons aged ≤44 years but increased among those aged ≥75 years. Firearm- (34.8%), motor-vehicle– (31.4%), and fall-related TBIs (16.7%) were the leading causes of TBI-related death. Rates of TBI-related deaths were higher among young and older adults and certain minority populations.

To read the full text of this report, click here.

Sports Concussion Summit

I will be in Los Angelis tomorrow to speak at the National Summit on Sports Concussion which will be held at the Sheraton, Gateway Hotel.

This is the fifth year that the summit will be held.  The summit brings together the leading experts in sports related concussions and brain injuries.  I will be evaluating enacted and proposed concussion legislation in the various states and on the evaluation of liability in sports injury cases.  Later in the day I will be demonstrating the cross examination of an expert witness in a second impact syndrome case.

You can get further information on this summit by clicking here.  

I will be in Los Angelis tomorrow to speak at the National Summit on Sports Concussion which will be held at the Sheraton, Gateway Hotel.

This is the fifth year that the summit will be held.  The summit brings together the leading experts in sports related concussions and brain injuries.  I will be evaluating enacted and proposed concussion legislation in the various states and on the evaluation of liability in sports injury cases.  Later in the day I will be demonstrating the cross examination of an expert witness in a second impact syndrome case.

You can get further information on this summit by clicking here. 

Congratulations to Shana De Caro

Congratulations to  my law partner, Shana De Caro for her induction as an at large member of the Board of Directors of the prestigious New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers.  The Academy membership  represents both plaintiff and defendant trial attorneys, members of the judiciary and law professors throughout New York State.  Shana also serves as Amicus counsel to the Academy and is an editor of the Academy’s monthly appellate decision update publication.

Shana is also an officer of the Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Civil Justice Foundaton and an elected Fellow of the Melvin Belli Society.