El Monte Brain and Spinal Injury Lawyer | San Gabriel Valley You were hurt.

Hospital bills. Missed work.

Why should you pay for another's carelessness?

Now the insurance company is pushing you to settle.

Tell them: "No, not until I talk to Brad."

Lawsuits are scary. A 5-minute phone call with Brad is not.

El Monte Brain and Spinal Injury Lawyer | San Gabriel Valley

You were involved in an accident. Could have been a car, bus, train, bicycle, pedestrian, slip and fall, or motorcycle. You felt okay. A minor bruise, but not hurt - or so you thought.

Then the headaches started. Or the memory gaps. Or the numbness that was not there before. What felt like nothing may be a concussion, or something more serious. It showed up days later, maybe weeks, and now you are wondering if it is connected or if you are imagining it.

You are not imagining it. A traumatic brain injury, or TBI, does not require a blow to the head. The violent shaking of a crash is enough to move the brain inside the skull and do real damage, and the symptoms often surface days or weeks later. That delay is not proof you are fine. It is how these injuries usually work.

Here is the trap. You looked fine at the scene, so the ER cleared you and sent you home. Now the insurance company points to that same ER record and argues that if the injury were real, it would have shown up right away. The thing that made you feel lucky is the exact thing they use to deny the claim.

That is why what you do next matters more than on almost any other kind of case. Getting evaluated by the right specialist now - a neurologist, not just the ER - even weeks out, is often the difference between a claim taken seriously and one waved off. The injury has to be documented properly, by someone who knows what to look for.

If a husband, a parent, a child or loved one doesn't seem to be themselves right now, it could be a brain or spinal injury that has surfaced. It needs to be diagnosed early. Get them to a specialized doctor to detect the injury. It would be a hard thing to carry a lifelong injury and lose the chance to recover for it because we waited too long.

Here's the honest part: insurance companies fight these cases the hardest, because a serious brain or spinal cord injury can mean a lifetime of care, and they know it. Do you know a doctor who specializes in detecting brain and spinal injuries? We do. This is simply not a case to manage on your own.

We are an El Monte brain and spinal injury lawyer. Building the medical record, proving what this will cost over a lifetime, and making the at-fault party's insurance pay for it is how Brad Hayes Law earns its fee, paid out of the settlement if we win. But we can't win if you don't call.