The Legal Option For Brain Injury Victims

Brain injury victims can always take legal means to claim compensation for their injuries. If you are an accident victim who suffer from brain injury and has already sought a doctor, you can contact a personal injury lawyer who specializes in brain injury cases to help you obtain compensation for your injuries.

A victim who suffers concussions or head injury in an accident should watch out for symptoms of brain injury as it could cause a disability or worse, a brain injury that could lead to death.


The symptoms of traumatic brain injury include the following:

• Dilated pupils
• Loss of consciousness/confusion
• Changes in vision (blurred vision, seeing double, intolerance of bright light)
• Dizziness or difficulty balancing
• Respiratory failure
• Coma
• Paralysis and trouble moving parts of the body
• Poor coordination
• Weakness/ lethargy
• Slowed pulse and breathing rate
• Vomiting
• Tinnitus
• Cognitive thought problems
• Loss of bowel or bladder control
• Unexplained emotional outbursts

Traumatic brain injury is the type of brain injury suffered mostly by accident victims. It is incurred when the head receives a severe blow caused by an external force. High-speed car accidents and slip and fall accidents are the common cases that result to brain injury. Medical malpractice can also result in brain injury.

Traumatic brain injury has three levels:

1. Mild brain injury– Commonly known as concussions, it is characterized by brief loss of consciousness and a sense of confusion.
2. Moderate traumatic brain injury – This is caused by loss of consciousness that lasts from a few minutes to a few hours. Confusion will last from a few hours to weeks.
3. Severe brain injury – This involves a prolonged unconscious state or coma.

Brain Injury Treatment

Every brain injury is different, hence every victim responds to treatment differently as well. For this reason, a brain injury victim has to go through a personalized rehabilitative treatment plan, which includes physical rehabilitation, medication, community support programs, speech/cognitive thought rehabilitation, neuropsychological services, and other options. Together with medical professionals, psychotherapists, caretakers, and other support groups, family members can help lessen the emotional blows of brain injury.

Taking Legal Response

Aside from medical treatment, the best recourse for a victim to regain loss and damages for his injury is through the services of a personal injury lawyer. A personal injury lawyer who specializes in brain injury cases can help a victim gather and preserve evidence, build an effective case, and win the compensation that he rightfully deserves. 

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Small Claims Courts and How They Work in U.S.

Small claims courts are attractive for consumers who want to collect a small debt or recover damages for a faulty product or for shoddy service.

So you've decided to go down to the courthouse and go to the Small Claims Division. What now you ask. Let's take a look at the how and why regarding small claims courts. How did they come about and why are they used so extensively.

The first small claims court was created in Cleveland in 1913. Within a few years every state had such a court of limited jurisdiction. Small claims courts are attractive for consumers who want to collect a small debt or recover damages for a faulty product or for shoddy service. However, small claims courts are used heavily by businesses and public utilities that want to collect payments from customers for unpaid bills. In a single court session, a department store, utility company, or hospital may obtain judgments against a long list of debtors, making the process very economical.

We do not need an attorney to represent us. When you do go to courtroom, you will perhaps be surprised to see this group of people, wearing official badges and sitting in the jury box. Relax; you didn't accidentally stumble into some major hearing about to take place. Read on.

These folks are called mediators. They have been handpicked by the court and are highly qualified to act on most cases. They have years of knowledge and experience that effectively works for both parties. When the clerk of the court calls your name and the name of the other party, you will both stand up. When the clerk of the court recognizes both parties are present, he or she will hand a mediator your file at which point your little group goes off into a private room.

The mediators do not get to see the file beforehand. The mediator looks at the file, read the statement of claim and asks if there is any conciliatory manner in which the problem can be solved, short of a trial before a judge. During the discussion that follows both parties soon realize the additional costs, time and chances of losing might be. The mediator's efforts are to settle this out of court. If there is no chance for settlement, you are then instructed to go back into the courtroom and wait for the judge.

It's unlikely you will have a trial that day. The clerk of the court has to schedule it for another day. Sometimes the judge will hear trials that day but you have no idea at what time. If you do decide to stick around that make sure you are ready when your name is called. If you or the other party is not present then the absent party loses by default.

The small claims courts work very efficiently and you can receive rewards up to $7500 depending on the state in which you reside. How to collect is another matter entirely.

How to Change Your Name in Ohio.

Process of change in name is very easy in state of Ohio.

Followings are the steps :

All legal name changes in Ohio are attached to your existing birth certificate which is a computerized birth abstract showing the name change. After you change your name in Ohio all agencies, federal and state will accept your new name as your new legal name and will issue you documents with your new name if you wish.

Court ordering a legal change of name decreed in Ohio.

If you were born after December 20, 1908 then you are apart of a group of people the court is allowed to grant a legal change of name to. Once you get the court to certify your legal change of name decree the Ohio Vital Statistics office requires a copy. The court order must have been granted by a probate court. If you never had a birth certificate or were born before December 20, 1908 then the Vital Statistics office requires a delayed birth registration established by a probate court along with the certified copy of the legal change of name decree. The probate court is the only court that can do delayed birth registrations in Ohio.

Court ordering a legal change of name decreed outside Ohio.

If you were born after December 20, 1908 then you can be granted a legal name change outside Ohio. The Ohio Vital Statistics office will need a certified copy of the court ordered legal change of name and a delayed birth registration, which can be established by an Ohio Probate Court. Only Ohio probate courts can file delayed birth registrations.

The court order to legally change your name must contain:
1) The name prior to change
2) Changed Name
3) Name or county of court
4) Case number
5) Final date of the change of name
6) Signature of the Probate Judge or Deputy Clerk
7) Court Seal (not mandatory)

They may also ask for your date of birth, place of birth, and parent's names if they feel they don't have sufficient enough information.