Slater Vecchio lawyers share their in-depth practice knowledge and commitment to client services by regularly publishing articles. The following articles by our team discuss spinal cord and brain injury.
Spinal Cord Injury
“A significant proportion of individuals who sustain a spinal cord injury (SCI) also sustain a concomitant traumatic brain injury (TBI)…”
Brain Injury
“Occasionally a seemingly innocuous event can have tragic consequences.” These are the opening comments of Mr. Justice Weatherill in Wallman v John Doe. The innocuous event? A $673 rear-end collision. The tragic consequences? A mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)…”
Twenty eight years ago a six year old boy sustained a traumatic brain injury in a motor vehicle accident near Creston British Columbia. He was a passenger in a car involved in a head on collision. He hit his head and was unconscious for approximately four minutes…
“The number of traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases each year in the United States is reported to be in the range of 1.6 to 3.8 million. This likely translates into 160,000 to 380,000 cases of TBI in Canada each year.”
“In traumatic brain injury cases the plaintiff will have suffered significant deficits in cognitive, emotional, and behavioural functioning. However, a review of the future cost of care…”
“A lawyer interviewing a client in a traumatic brain injury case will likely find that the client suffers from…”
“In cases where a lawyer is attempting to prove that a plaintiff has suffered a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) following a motor vehicle accident…”
“Proving a causal relationship at trial between trauma and Parkinson’s disease or parkinsonism is difficult, as evidenced by the fact that only three cases have proceeded to trial in Canada…”
“The purpose of the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Update is to inform those lawyers interested in TBI cases about recent developments in the neurobehavioural literature…”
“A review of Supreme Court decisions dealing with the issue of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) reveals a number of cases where medical experts have opined that a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI) cannot be made without a finding that there was a loss of consciousness (LOC)…”
“One of the most difficult problems for lawyers involved in the presentation of traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases is that some doctors are unfamiliar with traumatic brain injury (TBI)…”
“In a Supreme Court Trial several years ago, a medical expert was carefully explaining to the Judge the pathophysiological mechanism of a traumatic brain injury…”