New Jersey Brain Injury Lawyer

A traumatic brain injury changes everything. One moment you’re living your life — the next, you’re struggling with memory loss, confusion, personality changes, or worse. These injuries don’t just affect the person hurt. They impact entire families, careers, and futures. And often, the damage is invisible to everyone except the people living through it.

At Rosengard Law Group, we understand the silent devastation of brain injuries. From concussions to severe trauma, we represent victims across New Jersey with the medical knowledge and legal firepower these complex cases demand. Whether your injury was caused by a car crash, fall, workplace accident, or medical mistake — we’re here to hold the negligent party accountable and fight for the full compensation you deserve.

You only get one chance to build your future after a brain injury. Let us help you make it count. There’s no fee unless we win.

Why Brain Injury Cases Are So Complex

• Invisible and delayed symptoms — traumatic brain injuries often go undetected in early exams, leading to missed diagnoses and denied claims.
• Requires specialized medical evaluation — successful claims rely on input from neurologists, neuropsychologists, radiologists, and rehabilitation specialists.
• Lifelong care and costs — many victims need years of therapy, cognitive retraining, and support for basic life tasks, which must be fully accounted for.
• Complex legal strategy — proving liability and long-term impact takes deep medical insight, financial projections, and seasoned litigation experience.

Types of Brain Injuries We Handle

• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Often caused by car accidents, falls, or construction site incidents. These injuries result from a sudden blow or jolt to the head, disrupting normal brain function. Severity ranges from mild to catastrophic.
• Concussions and Mild TBIs: Sometimes overlooked, concussions can cause serious long-term symptoms like memory loss, mood swings, headaches, and sensitivity to light or sound. We ensure these “invisible” injuries are taken seriously in your case.
• Acquired Brain Injuries (ABI): These injuries occur after birth due to stroke, tumors, infections, or toxic exposure — not external trauma. Victims often require long-term rehabilitation and face ongoing cognitive and emotional challenges.
• Hypoxic/Anoxic Brain Injuries: Caused by oxygen deprivation to the brain, often due to near-drowning, anesthesia errors, or cardiac arrest. Even brief oxygen loss can cause irreversible damage and profound disability.
• Penetrating Head Trauma: Occurs when an object breaks through the skull and directly damages brain tissue. These cases usually involve emergency surgery and carry high risk for infection, loss of function, or death.
• Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI): A severe and often fatal form of brain injury where the brain shifts rapidly inside the skull, tearing nerve fibers. Common in high-speed collisions, DAIs typically result in coma or permanent brain damage.

Common Causes of Brain Injuries in New Jersey

• Car, truck, and motorcycle accidents: Sudden impacts can cause the brain to collide with the skull, resulting in concussions, bleeding, or long-term cognitive damage. Car accidents are among the most frequent sources of traumatic brain injuries (TBI).
• Slip and fall accidents (premises liability): Falls from wet floors, icy walkways, broken stairs, or poor lighting can lead to head trauma — particularly dangerous for seniors and vulnerable individuals.
• Workplace and construction site accidents: Falling objects, unsafe equipment, or inadequate safety protocols can result in severe brain trauma. Injured workers may have both workers’ compensation and third-party claim options.
• Sports injuries (especially youth concussions): Contact sports like football, soccer, and hockey frequently cause concussions and repeat head trauma, often underestimated by coaches and staff.
• Medical malpractice (birth injury, stroke misdiagnosis, anesthesia error): Negligent care can lead to oxygen deprivation, delayed treatment, or surgical errors that permanently impact brain function.
• Defective products and dangerous drugs: Faulty helmets, airbags, or medical devices — as well as drugs that increase stroke risk — can all lead to preventable brain injuries when manufacturers fail to ensure safety.

Symptoms of Brain Injuries

• Headaches, dizziness, vision problems: These are among the most common early signs of brain trauma. Blurred vision, light sensitivity, and balance issues may indicate serious neurological impact.
• Memory loss, confusion, speech difficulty: Many individuals struggle to recall events, maintain focus, or articulate thoughts — symptoms that can severely affect daily functioning and job performance.
• Mood swings, anxiety, depression: Emotional regulation often suffers after a brain injury. Victims may experience unexplained irritability, sadness, or panic episodes that disrupt personal and professional life.
• Personality changes, inappropriate behavior: Loved ones often notice shifts in temperament or behavior. A once calm individual may become aggressive or act in socially inappropriate ways due to frontal lobe damage.
• Fatigue, sleep disturbances: Chronic tiredness, insomnia, or reversed sleep cycles are common, even in mild TBIs, and can make recovery much more difficult.
• Delayed symptom onset and why TBI is called a “silent injury”: Symptoms may not appear until days or weeks after the incident. This delay, combined with the invisible nature of brain trauma, makes diagnosis difficult and often misunderstood — hence the term “silent injury.”

What Compensation Can You Recover?

Brain injuries often result in long-term — sometimes permanent — consequences. Victims and their families may be entitled to significant compensation to cover both economic and non-economic damages. Here’s what a comprehensive brain injury claim in New Jersey can include:

• Medical expenses: This includes all current and future medical costs — emergency room visits, hospital stays, surgical procedures, neurologist appointments, physical and cognitive rehabilitation, prescription medications, in-home nursing care, and long-term treatment plans. For many brain injury survivors, medical costs can exceed millions over a lifetime.
• Lost income and reduced earning potential: If your injury prevents you from working temporarily or permanently, you can recover compensation for lost wages and future earnings. This includes retraining costs, lost promotions, and career path disruptions. For children or young adults, expert analysis may be used to estimate projected career earnings that were never realized.
• Pain and suffering: Traumatic brain injuries aren’t just physically painful — they also affect emotional and cognitive well-being. Compensation accounts for the chronic pain, mental anguish, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairment that victims may experience for the rest of their lives.
• Home and vehicle modifications: Some survivors may need a wheelchair-accessible home or vehicle. Others may require special equipment, safety installations, or renovations to accommodate memory or mobility issues. These necessary upgrades can be included in your claim.
• Loss of independence and quality of life: Brain injury victims often lose the ability to drive, manage finances, care for children, or perform daily tasks without assistance. Compensation can reflect the profound change in lifestyle and the loss of personal freedom and dignity.

Wrongful Death from a Brain Injury

When a traumatic brain injury results in the loss of a loved one, the emotional and financial toll can be overwhelming. No amount of money can undo what happened — but a wrongful death claim can provide justice, financial security, and accountability for the negligence that caused an irreplaceable loss.

Family members may be entitled to compensation for a wide range of damages, including:

• Funeral and burial expenses
• Loss of the deceased’s income and future earnings
• Loss of benefits such as healthcare and retirement contributions
• Loss of companionship, guidance, and emotional support
• Pain and suffering endured by surviving spouses, children, or dependents

Wrongful death cases involving brain injuries require a clear understanding of both medical evidence and long-term financial impact. These cases are complex — especially when symptoms may have developed slowly or the full consequences weren’t recognized immediately.

That’s why we build every case with a team of specialists. Neurologists explain the progression and severity of the injury. Economists and vocational experts calculate lost income and support. Life-care planners assess the care that was required — and the value of the life that was lost.

Every family deserves full accountability and closure. Our wrongful death lawyers are here to pursue both.

How We Prove a Brain Injury Case

Brain injury cases are some of the most medically and legally complex personal injury claims. To win the compensation you deserve, we build a powerful case using detailed evidence, expert input, and proven strategy. Here’s how we prove a brain injury claim in New Jersey:

• Neurologist and neuropsychologist reports: These specialists diagnose the type and severity of your brain injury. Their evaluations provide medical validation of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional impairments, forming the foundation of your case.
• CT scans, MRIs, and cognitive testing results: Objective imaging and diagnostic testing — like MRIs, CT scans, and EEGs — show physical trauma to the brain. We also use neurocognitive tests to document memory loss, concentration issues, and executive function deficits.
• Expert testimony on long-term impact and costs: Medical experts, life-care planners, and economists testify to the future costs of your injury. They help juries understand the full impact on your ability to work, live independently, and maintain a normal life.
• Accident investigation and liability analysis: We analyze how the injury occurred, determine who was at fault, and gather all available evidence — from witness statements and surveillance footage to police reports and accident reconstructions.
• Vocational and life-care planning experts: These professionals assess how the injury affects your future career, job prospects, and daily needs. Their reports help quantify damages related to future income loss, home assistance, and long-term care.

Our job is to take an invisible injury and make its effects undeniable in court. We partner with top-tier experts, use cutting-edge diagnostic tools, and prepare every case as if it’s going to trial — so we’re ready to win whether we’re negotiating a settlement or standing before a jury.

Why You Need a Specialized New Jersey Brain Injury Lawyer

Brain injury cases aren’t like other personal injury claims. They involve complex medical science, delayed or invisible symptoms, and lifelong consequences. To win full compensation, you need a lawyer who knows this landscape inside and out — legally, medically, and strategically.

• Understanding the medical science of TBI/ABI: Proving a traumatic or acquired brain injury requires more than just knowing the law. Your lawyer must understand how the brain works, how injuries affect behavior and function, and how to translate that into persuasive legal arguments and courtroom evidence.
• Access to top neurologists and life-care experts: The right brain injury attorney has trusted relationships with the region’s leading medical experts — neurologists, neuropsychologists, and life-care planners. These specialists can testify about your diagnosis, prognosis, treatment needs, and the real cost of your recovery.
• Proven experience with high-value settlements and verdicts: Brain injury cases often result in seven- or eight-figure damages. You need a legal team that has secured life-changing results in past cases — and knows how to battle powerful insurance companies that try to downplay your injury or delay justice.
• Coordinating medical treatment and financial recovery: A skilled brain injury lawyer doesn’t just handle your lawsuit. They help you get access to the right doctors, manage bills, deal with insurance adjusters, and build a plan for your financial future — so you can focus on healing while they handle everything else.

Without a specialized brain injury attorney on your side, it’s easy to leave money on the table — or worse, have your condition misunderstood or dismissed. Our mission is to ensure your voice is heard, your injury is taken seriously, and your future is fully protected.

How Long Do You Have to File in New Jersey?

New Jersey law limits the amount of time you have to file a brain injury lawsuit, and missing the deadline can cost you your right to compensation. Here’s what you need to know:

• Statute of limitations: For most brain injury claims in New Jersey, you have two years from the date of the injury to file a lawsuit. This applies to both traumatic and acquired brain injuries.
• Exceptions for minors: If the injured person is under 18, the two-year clock typically doesn’t begin until they turn 18 — giving them until their 20th birthday to file a claim.
• Tolling for delayed diagnosis: In some cases, symptoms of a brain injury don’t appear immediately. If you couldn’t have reasonably known about the injury until later, the filing window may be extended. This is known as the “discovery rule.”
• Government-related claims: If your brain injury involves a public school, municipal vehicle, or any other government agency, you must file a formal notice of claim within 90 days of the incident — or risk losing your case entirely.

Don’t guess when it comes to legal deadlines. If you’ve suffered a brain injury, speak with an attorney immediately to preserve your rights and avoid unnecessary delays.

Why Choose Rosengard Law Group

Brain injury litigation is some of the most demanding work in personal injury law. When your future is on the line, you need a firm with the experience, medical insight, and courtroom strength to take on powerful opponents — and win.

• Experienced in complex TBI litigation: Our team has handled cases involving concussions, severe brain trauma, oxygen deprivation injuries, and more — securing major recoveries for victims across New Jersey.
• Medical-legal team focused on catastrophic injuries: We work hand-in-hand with neurologists, neuropsychologists, life-care planners, and economists to present a full picture of your injury’s impact and secure maximum compensation.
• No fee unless we win: You never pay out of pocket. We cover all case costs and only get paid if we secure a settlement or verdict on your behalf.
• Available statewide across NJ: Whether you’re in North Jersey, Central Jersey, or South Jersey, our attorneys are ready to meet you where you are — in person, by phone, or virtually.

Let us fight for the resources and justice you deserve after a life-changing brain injury.

Contact a New Jersey Brain Injury Lawyer Today

If you or a loved one is dealing with the effects of a traumatic brain injury, don’t wait to get legal help. The sooner you act, the stronger your case will be.

• Free consultation: Speak with a Cherry Hill injury attorney by phone, video, or in person — whatever works best for you.
• Home and hospital visits available: If your injury makes travel difficult, we’ll come to you.
• Get started today: Call us directly or fill out our quick online form to begin your path to compensation and support.

Your recovery starts with a conversation. Let’s talk.

FAQs – New Jersey Brain Injury Lawsuits

What if my symptoms didn’t appear right away?
This is common with brain injuries, especially concussions and mild TBIs. You can still pursue a claim. New Jersey law allows for delayed discovery, which means the filing deadline may be based on when your symptoms were diagnosed — not when the accident occurred.

Can I sue for a concussion or mild TBI?
Yes. Even “mild” brain injuries can cause serious, lasting problems — especially if they affect your memory, mood, or ability to work. You have the right to pursue compensation.

What’s the average payout for a brain injury case?
Every case is different. Settlements and verdicts depend on the severity of your injury, the cost of treatment, lost income, and how your life has been affected. Severe TBI cases often result in multi-million dollar recoveries.

How do I prove a brain injury if scans are “normal”?
Many TBIs don’t show up on CT scans or MRIs. We use neuropsychological testing, expert medical evaluations, and detailed symptom documentation to prove your case.

How long does a brain injury lawsuit take?
It depends on the complexity of the case and whether it goes to trial. Some cases settle in a few months, while others take a year or more. We move as fast as possible without compromising the value of your claim.

Do I need to see a specific type of doctor?
Yes. For brain injuries, it’s crucial to be evaluated by specialists like neurologists, neuropsychologists, and cognitive therapists. We can connect you with trusted experts if needed.