Insurance companies and adjusters have a vested interest in perpetuating these myths as a way to avoid paying valid claims. If you or a loved one has suffered a traumatic brain injury, ask your personal injury lawyer whether he knows the truth about the five myths that prevent adjusters, judges and juries from finding the truth. You can click here to email our office. A person must be knocked out or lose consciousness to suffer a brain injury. This is untrue.
People suffer brain injury every day without losing consciousness.
In one well-known case, Phineas Gage suffered a severe frontal lobe injury when an explosive charge propelled a long iron bar into his skull. It entered through the lower left side of his face. He sat conversing with his fellow railway workers, the tip of the bar protruding from the top of his skull, until help arrived. He never lost consciousness. There is no necessary connection between loss of consciousness and brain injury.