The Height of Head Injury Awareness

Over the past several years, player organizations representing competitors in many of America’s favorite contact sports have come forward with lawsuits or calls for change pertaining to their various leagues’ head injury policies. Beginning with football, and moving laterally to other sports as well as down to lower levels of play, the concerns are now being taken seriously by doctors, league officials, and personal injury attorneys.

Recently, much attention has been paid to youth soccer, where the U.S. Soccer organization has announced that it will start prohibiting headers in games of players aged 10 and under, while limiting the use of headers for players aged 11 to 13. This is aimed at eliminating head injuries caused by either a single concussion, or a buildup of trauma over the years. In fact, there were around 50,000 concussions suffered by high school soccer players in 2010, so the need for a reduction in these injuries is apparent.

Through his years of experience as a motorcycle accident lawyer, Cameron Yadidi Brock has spent a great deal of his time fighting for the rights of head injury patients, and has far too often seen the long-term damage that these injuries cause. If you or someone you love has suffered an injury due to the negligence of another party, call our Los Angeles personal injury attorneys today at (888) 979-7979.

Making Your Own Luck?

As we write this, it's Friday the 13th and there are some extremely upsetting stories going on in the international news. It's likely those two realities are not related, but it does get a personal injury lawyer thinking about the role of luck in determining who gets harmed in auto collisions and other seemingly random occurrence, and who doesn't.

We've all heard the expression, "you make your own luck," and it's undoubtedly largely true. In terms of auto safety, we can wear seat belts, drive as carefully as possible, make sure we have enough mirrors and other safety features, and ensure we are never at the wheel when we're too tired or are otherwise unfit to drive. We can even try to avoid being on the road extremely early in the morning when a lot of the worst accidents seem to happen. Of course, all of this can greatly reduce our chances of being involved in a serious personal injury accident...but it won't eliminate it completely. There's no reason to be fatalistic about things, but there's also no denying that there's a limit to the zone of safety we can create for ourselves.

As Los Angeles personal injury attorneys, we're definitely aware of the fact that -- while such incidents are, fortunately, relatively rare -- a person can do all the right things and still be the victim of a serious injury. Whether it's a drunk driver or an irresponsible property owner or manager, there are times when people simply have terrible luck. While there isn't a whole lot of comfort in that thought, at least we can try our best to help our clients obtain some redress after the fact.

When it’s Truly Unprecedented

When it comes to personal injury law, some cases are much more cut and dried than others. Some cases involve negligence that is so apparent that the only thing that the lawsuit is meant to decide is exactly how much the plaintiff will receive in damages. There are a great many personal injury attorneys out there that only take these easy cases in order to pad their success rate, or to reduce their own personal workload. At the Law Offices of Burg & Brock, we are willing to fight for deserving clients even if it means having to convince the court of their merit.

When a case goes to trial rather than being settled, that is when the real work of a skilled personal injury lawyer comes in. Often, when preparing a strategy for a case, lawyers can turn to past legal precedents as a means for proving that their client deserves compensation. While these are certainly helpful guides for building a case, there many cases whose circumstances are unique to any known past occurrence, so it is up to the legal team to establish a strong legal argument on behalf of their client. At the Law Offices of Burg and Brock, that is what we aim to do for each and every client.

Monster Claims

Halloween is just about here and we thought it might be time to explore some of the less responsible practices of certain frigthening characters who, fictional monsters and monster makers though they are, really ought to know better. As Los Angeles personal injury attorneys, we get to meet all kinds of people, but these folks are downright scary.

We'll start with Victor Frankenstein who, without consulting even one medical ethics board, created a human from stolen parts, including a possibly abnormal brain. He then allowed his creation to roam about the countryside, entirely unsupervised. Beyond being an obviously case of highly irresponsible parenting, the creature's murderous behavior clearly would leave the doctor open to a number of very serious wrongful death and personal injury suits.

Of course, harm comes to us not only from random meetings with marauding creatures of the night, but also at the workplace. Consider the case of Count Vlad Dracula who, apart from causing harm through his well known and very unpleasant addiction, was guilty of creating highly inappropriate workplace conditions in the case of one R.M. Renfield. Mr. Renfield, a onetime real estate agent, was poached from his former place of employment through means of bewitching the young man, which had numerous deleterious side effects. The agent was left with a number of medical conditions, many no doubt related to his tendency to consume any insects he came across. Aside from the injuries to Mr. Renfield, it's unclear whether he every received any compensation for the many services he regularly performed for the Count.

Yes, we admit it, even a skilled personal injury lawyer can be afraid of monsters,
particularly since it's so hard to hold a nonexistent creature of the night properly accountable through the legal system. Of course, if you need any help with actual, non-fictional human beings or companies who behave irresponsibly and cause you an injury, we're definitely here to help, and to wish you a Happy Halloween!

Sometimes it's Personal

The main role of a personal injury lawyer is to make sure that victims of an accident are properly compensated so that the negligent actions of another don’t put them into dire financial straits. Beyond simply paying for medical bills, the compensation that victims gain through a court decision or settlement allows them to ensure that any lost wages in the present or future are also covered. This is not to mention additional pain and suffering damages that victims are entitled to when the injury affects far more than a person’s finances.

Yet, while compensation is paramount in a personal injury case, the sense of justice that victims get by securing a favorable outcome can make a tremendous difference in their emotional recovery. Simply the court’s acknowledgement that a victim was wronged can help that person move forward in life with some sense of closure. In most cases, the circumstances surrounding an accident do not merit criminal charges, so often the only outlet that a victim has in seeking justice is through Los Angeles personal injury attorneys. While, ideally, no one should ever have to be in that situation, if you or a loved one needs the help of a personal injury lawyer, make sure you go with the best.

It's Always Human Error

The recent flurry of news stories sparked by the release of information on accidents involving  experimental driverless cars belonging to Google had us thinking about an all too obvious fact relating to personal injury cases. It's this: while its probably true that the 11 or so car collisions involving the new cars were the fault of human drivers, ALL accidents are and will continue to be the result of human error -- it's just a matter of proving which human made the error!

If, for example, an accident occurs someday that a skilled personal injury lawyer can prove is the result of a preventable malfunction of a driverless car, the fault of the accident will be with the human(s) who designed, built, or programmed the car. After all, "Terminator" movies notwithstanding, at least so far our machines are only as good as the people who build them. An inanimate object can't really be said to make a mistake...though using that object ill-advisedly can definitely qualify as an error. For the time being, at least, even the most sophisticated car-computer hybrid we can imagine will still be an inanimate object.

The reality that Los Angeles personal injury attorneys like us are going to have to deal with is reminding juries and the authorities that even the most sophisticated machines are built and manufactured by humans who are ultimately going to be responsible for any flaws in their creations that might endanger the public. It's a tough job, but nobody every said personal injury lawyering was going to be easy!

Safety Through Accountability

First and foremost, it is the job of a personal injury lawyer to represent the best interests of whatever client they are providing guidance or representation for that day. When an individual has been injured in an accident, they are often put into the vulnerable position of having to fight for their legal rights while still recovery from the injury that they have suffered. Cameron Yadidi Brock fights passionately for each one of his clients, and uses his skills as a litigator and every other legal resource at his disposal to get every client the absolute best outcome.

Yet, there is a larger effect that Los Angeles personal injury attorneys have on the community. While some business owners or individuals may get nervous at the possibility of a lawsuit, it is this nervousness that drives these parties to ensure that everything that they are responsible for is safe for other people to use. Whether this takes the form of a driver double-checking their blind spot to ensure they are safe to switch lanes, or a factory manager ensuring that the products they are about to ship do not have dangerous defects, the negative consequences associated with putting others in danger surely creates a heightened atmosphere of safety that we all benefit from.