It is possible that not wearing head protection could affect your rights. However, do not let that keep you from speaking with an experienced Philadelphia brain injury attorney.
Helmets, hard hats, and other gear can reduce your risk of suffering a TBI. We strongly encourage all of our readers to wear helmets while riding motorcycles and bikes, for instance, and to follow hard hat rules on construction sites.
Head protection cannot eliminate TBI risk, however, and of course, sometimes people sustain a TBI in circumstances in which no one would reasonably expect them to wear a helmet or similar gear. So, in some cases, your lack of headgear may not change your rights at all. In other cases, it may have some impact on the amount of compensation you can receive (if, for example, the injury you suffered was made worse by your decision not to wear protection).
However, no one deserves to get injured because of someone else’s wrongful actions, or while doing their job. Accordingly, you have a good chance to recover compensation for your TBI even if you should have worn a helmet/hard hat, but didn’t.