Brain Injury Lawyer in Calgary

Possibly, yes. Mild traumatic brain injury commonly does not show on standard imaging. What matters is the mechanism of injury, the documented clinical course, formal neuropsychological assessment and evidence of the change from how you functioned before. A normal scan is a point the insurer will make, not an answer to the claim.

Through a combination: the mechanism of injury, contemporaneous medical records, neurological and neuropsychological assessment, and evidence from family, friends and employers about the change in function. Where the injury affects earning capacity, vocational and economic evidence is also required. It is a claim built from several sources rather than resting on a single test.

In most injury claims the period is two years — but it does not simply run from the date of the incident. It runs from the point at which you knew, or ought reasonably to have known, three things: that you were injured, that the injury was attributable to someone else's conduct, and that it was serious enough to warrant bringing a proceeding. A separate ten-year outer limit runs from when the claim arose, and whichever period expires first governs. Different rules apply to minors and to people under a disability. Because the analysis is fact-specific, the safe course is to ask early rather than assume.

We act on a contingency fee basis, which means you pay no legal fees unless compensation is recovered. Disbursements — the out-of-pocket costs of running a file, such as medical records, expert reports and court filing fees — and applicable taxes may still apply. We will explain the arrangement in writing before you retain us.