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Why Hire a Las Vegas Brain Injury Lawyer?
Hire a lawyer to help you after a brain injury because you deserve fair compensation for the ways the injury has changed your life. You deserve support in fighting for a fair traumatic brain injury settlement and that’s what a skilled lawyer can provide for you.
A brain injury lawyer understands how to document a traumatic brain injury and prove what the medical records alone may not show. A TBI can change your memory, your moods, and your ability to work while the CT scan looks clean. Insurance companies price what they can see, and they discount what they cannot. Adam S. Kutner spent his early career defending insurance companies, so he knows how brain injury claims get undervalued, and he knows the evidence that stops it: neuropsychological testing, treating-specialist opinions, and the people in your life who can describe who you were before.
Timing is the other trap. TBI symptoms often surface days after the accident, and worsen for weeks. An insurer who gets you to settle in that window settles your claim before either of you knows what it is worth.
How We Handle Your Brain Injury Claim
We handle a brain injury claim in stages, and every case starts with a free consultation: we listen, review what treatment you have had, and tell you honestly what your claim needs.
Get the diagnosis right
We help you get to the right specialists, from neurologists to neuropsychologists, so the injury is documented by people qualified to find it.
Prove the invisible
Cognitive testing, treatment records, work records showing the before and after, and testimony from family and coworkers who live with the change.
Price the whole recovery
Years of therapy, lost income and earning power, and the personality and relationship costs that never appear on a bill.
Negotiate from evidence
Insurers pay documented TBI claims differently than doubted ones. We build the file that removes the doubt.
No Fees Unless We Win Your Brain Injury Case
You pay nothing upfront. We work on a contingency fee basis, which means our fee is a percentage of the recovery we win for you. If there is no recovery, you owe us no attorney fee.
What Is a Traumatic Brain Injury?
A traumatic brain injury is damage to the brain caused by an outside force: a blow to the head, violent shaking, like whiplash, or an object penetrating the skull. Doctors group TBIs into open injuries, where the skull is breached, and closed injuries, where the skull is intact, but the brain is damaged by impact or motion. Closed injuries are the ones insurers doubt because nothing looks broken from the outside. Anoxic and hypoxic injuries, where the brain is starved of oxygen, form a third category we also handle.
Common symptoms include headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, and problems with memory and concentration. Watch for the delayed ones; symptoms can build for hours or days as swelling develops, so any blow to the head deserves a medical evaluation, even when you feel mostly fine. Persistent symptoms (dizziness, headaches, and vertigo lasting months) can mean post-concussion syndrome, which supports a claim of its own; our guide to post-concussion syndrome compensation covers it.
Types of Brain Injuries We Handle
Brain injuries range from mild concussions to permanent disability, and each type presents its own challenges for treatment, recovery, and building a claim:
Concussion
The most common traumatic brain injury. Symptoms can include headaches, confusion, memory problems, and sensitivity to light and noise. Many concussions resolve, but post-concussion syndrome can persist for months or longer.
Contusion
A bruise on the brain itself, often caused by a direct blow to the head. Severe contusions may require surgical removal.
Diffuse axonal injury
Caused by rotational forces that tear nerve fibers throughout the brain. Common in car accidents and falls. Often results in lasting cognitive and motor impairment.
Penetrating injury
An object breaks through the skull. These injuries carry high risk of infection, seizure, and permanent damage to the affected brain region.
Coup-contrecoup injury
The brain is injured at the point of impact and on the opposite side, where it struck the inside of the skull. Produces damage in two locations from a single blow.
Second impact syndrome
A second concussion before the first has healed. Rare but dangerous, and relevant in cases where an employer or coach allowed someone back to an activity too soon.
What To Do After a Head Injury in Las Vegas
The first days after a head injury shape both your recovery and your claim:
- Get evaluated the same day.
Any blow to the head or whiplash-type jolt deserves a medical evaluation, even if you feel fine. Swelling can delay symptoms for hours or days, and the early record ties the injury to the accident. - Track your symptoms in writing.
Headaches, sleep problems, word-finding trouble, mood changes. A daily log becomes powerful evidence of an injury that scans may not show. - Follow every referral.
Neurology, neuropsychology, and therapy. Gaps in treatment become the insurer’s argument that you were fine. - Let someone close to you take notes too.
Spouses and coworkers often see the changes first. Their observations, written down early, carry real weight later. - Do not settle early.
TBI symptoms evolve for months. A release signed in week two doesn’t cover the symptoms that surface in month six. Talk to us before any offer, and the consultation is free.
How Much Compensation Will I Get for a Brain Injury?
How much compensation you get for a brain injury depends on the severity and permanence of the injury, how clearly the other side is at fault, and the resources available to pay the claim. Compensation covers medical bills and future treatment, therapy, lost wages and earning capacity, and pain and suffering in proportion to how the injury changed your life. Severe TBIs that require years of therapy, or end careers, support claims at the top of the personal injury range, and mild TBIs with lasting symptoms are worth far more than the first offer.
The stories that make this real belong to the people who lived them: our guide on what brain injury survivors want you to know collects them.
What Damages Can I Recover From a Brain Injury?
A brain injury claim in Nevada can recover compensation for every way the injury has changed your life:
- Medical expenses, including emergency care, imaging, surgery, and hospitalization
- Cognitive rehabilitation and neuropsychological treatment
- Future medical care, including therapy, medication, and specialist visits for years after the injury
- Vocational rehabilitation if the injury changes what work you can do
- Caregiver and attendant care costs
- Lost wages and reduced earning capacity
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional distress, personality changes, and loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of consortium for your spouse and family
Brain injury claims are worth more than most adjusters initially offer because the long-term costs, cognitive rehabilitation, lost earning potential, and the changes to your daily life are real but harder to put on paper than a hospital bill. We build the documentation that makes the full injury visible.
How Do Brain Injuries Happen in Las Vegas?
Most brain injury claims we see in Las Vegas come from falls and vehicle crashes, with the rest split among struck-by incidents and assaults. Each cause maps to its own legal theory, and we use all of them:
Negligence:
TBIs from crashes on the valley’s fast arterials and highways, including whiplash-type injuries with no direct head strike. See brain injuries related to car accidents.
Premises liability:
Concussions and worse from falls at hotels, casinos, and stores, where hard flooring turns a slip into a head strike.
Product liability:
Head injuries from failed equipment and tools, on construction sites and off.
Negligent security:
Assaults at properties that should have prevented them.
Medical negligence:
Anoxic brain damage when a patient goes too long without oxygen.
Whatever the cause, the legal question is the same: whose failure of care set it in motion? We investigate that question while you treat.
Nevada Brain Injury Laws
Brain injury lawsuits in Nevada run on negligence law: you must show the defendant failed to act with reasonable care and that the failure caused your injury, proven by a preponderance of the evidence. These statutes shape the claim:
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Nevada Law |
What it says |
Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
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Statute of limitations |
You have two years from the injury to file a lawsuit. |
TBI symptoms evolve slowly and the deadline does not. Filing protects the claim while the medical picture is still developing. |
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Comparative negligence |
You can recover if you were not more at fault than the defendant; your award is reduced by your share. |
Insurers push fault onto TBI victims aggressively because every percentage point is expensive. The accident investigation keeps the split honest. |
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Punitive damages |
Allows exemplary damages where the defendant acted with oppression, fraud, or malice. |
Relevant when the cause was a drunk driver, an assault, or a property that ignored a known danger. |
Have you suffered a head injury?
Not sure whether your head injury supports a claim? Call (702) 382-0000 and talk it through with us for free.
Why Work With Adam S. Kutner for Your Brain Injury Case?
You have options when choosing a brain injury lawyer in Las Vegas. Here is what sets our firm apart:
More than 35 years in Las Vegas
We have handled injury claims in the valley since 1988. We know the courts, the judges, and the defense attorneys on the other side of your case.
Former insurance defense attorney
Adam S. Kutner started his career defending insurance companies. He knows how adjusters evaluate claims, what tactics they use to reduce payouts, and what evidence changes the outcome.
Over 50,000 settlement checks issued
Our track record is measured in results for real clients, not advertising slogans.
No fees unless we win
The consultation is free, and we work on contingency. You pay nothing unless we recover compensation for you.
We answer day and night
Injuries do not happen on a schedule. Call (702) 382-0000 any time, and a real person will answer.
FAQ About Brain Injury Cases in Las Vegas
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Brain Injury Resources and Related Claims
These guides go deeper on living with and treating a TBI:
Head trauma often arrives alongside spinal cord injuries, the most severe cases are part of our catastrophic injury work, and every TBI case belongs to our broader personal injury practice.
This article is for general information only and is not legal advice. Reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, talk to a qualified Nevada attorney.
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