Car accidents are traumatic experiences.  They can leave lingering physical and emotional damage.  Many car accident injures do not display symptoms right away.  What seems like minor or mild pain initially can develop into severe and debilitating pain over the next few weeks.

Everyone reacts to stress differently.  Some experience mental fog, some severe shock, and some a rush of adrenaline.  This can make it difficult to determine your injuries immediately following an accident.

The initial shock of the accident causes your body to produce endorphins, the brain’s natural coping mechanism when experiencing trauma and sensory overload.  Endorphins mask pain and other symptoms of injury.  In the days following the accident, the brain stops producing endorphins and medical concerns that were hidden before begin to appear and cause problems.

We’re often told that injuries “come with the territory” of participating in team sports. Players commonly walk away from games with scrapes, cuts, bruises, broken bones, sprains, and even short-lived head injuries like concussions. Concussions, technically speaking, are usually caused by minor head trauma that can seem rather undramatic at the time. Most concussion victims recover within minutes or even right away.

As a result, most coaches, nurses, doctors, and other sport medicine professionals in Atlanta, Georgia and elsewhere have treated concussions like they had no lasting effects. New research suggests differently, however. It’s reported that as many as 3.8 million concussions happen every year between all levels of sport. In some of these cases, doctors are finding out that the accumulation of concussions—even when they’re undramatic—can lead to traumatic brain injury and even brain disease.

Birth injuries are the result of damage to the tissues and organs of a newly delivered child and are often caused by physical pressure or trauma during childbirth.  There are several types of birth injuries.  There are brain-related injuries, muscle-related or physical injuries, injuries from infection during pregnancy, and injuries that occur during delivery.  The side effects of birth injuries can be temporary or permanent and vary in degree of severity depending on each child’s individual circumstances.

Brain-related birth injuries are often a result of a lack of oxygen in the brain.  The leading brain-related injury in relation to birth trauma is cerebral palsy.  Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that is caused by a non-progressive brain injury or malformation that occurs when the child’s brain is under development.  Cerebral palsy can develop after maternal infections, oxygen deprivation, infant stroke, and infant infection.  There is currently no cure for cerebral palsy.  In many cases, cerebral palsy could have been prevented with proper medical care.

At Bey & Associates, we’ve spent the last 20+ years providing our clients with expert legal counsel. We’ve recovered over $50 million for cases we’ve successfully taken to completion. We’re proud to be one of Atlanta’s trusted personal injury law firms and make it a goal to continuously improve our legal services and ways in which we can make a positive difference in our local communities.

As part of this goal, we’ve come to realize that technology is one of the greatest assets we have in regards to reaching out to our clients, to new clients in need of legal services, and to the Atlanta, GA community as a whole. We all have and depend on our mobile devices. As such, it’s vital that our website perform well on smartphones, tablet computers, and other types of mobile devices. It’s also vital for our clients to be able to quickly find us on search engines using those same mobile devices.

We’re happy to announce today that we’ve launched a brand new website that accomplishes these goals. When you visit Bey & Associates online, you’ll not only visit a site that loads quickly on any type of device you happen to be using, but one that allows you to find what you’re looking for right away and use our contact forms with ease. Our new site design focuses on accessibility and ease of access. One of the first new additions you may notice is our brand new team page which showcases all of our attorneys and legal professionals as well as the high level of talent our team consists of.

Our goal was to update our website content to make it valuable for potential clients as well as current clients. If you’re considering filing a lawsuit for an accident you were involved in, you need to know the facts. Our content aims to provide you with those facts in an approachable format that’s not overly difficult to digest. We’ll be continuing to publish blogs on a weekly basis as well. Our blogs will continue this same goal of accessibility and education.

If you have any feedback for us, we’re more than happy to hear it. Additionally, if you have any questions about a possible case you may have, don’t hesitate to reach out to us. Our Atlanta, GA personal injury lawyers are prepared to assist you in any way they can.

Work Injury Claims Denied

If you have been involved in a work-related accident and suffered an injury, you deserve to receive workers’ compensation benefits.

Often an employee will become injured on-the-job and will try to obtain benefits without consulting a skilled Work Injury Lawyer, when this occurs more often than not, their claims will be denied.

Here are the top reasons for a Workers’ Compensation Claim to be denied:

Late Notice of Injury
It is a requirement to provide your employer with a notice promptly of the injuries that you have received from a work-related accident. What is “timely” can vary, which is why it is important to have an attorney on your side who knows all the important deadlines. If the injury is not reported when it needs to be, your claim will more than likely be denied.

Malpractice lawsuits can occur for many different reasons and Prescription Drug Error is just one of the main forms of medical malpractice that plague people who have to deal with this type of case.

Medical Malpractice lawsuits occur when a medical professional or establishment fails to exercise the degree of attention and skill of a competent health care provider.

What is Prescription Drug Error?

There are many ways for prescription drug error to occur:

• providing the patient with the wrong medication
• mislabeling medication
• giving the patient an improper dose of medication
• prescribing medication that negatively interacts with other medications that they are taking
• prescribing a patient with a medication that they are allergic too
• failing to warn the patient of the side effects associated with the medication