News Category: Brain Injury
| Brain Injury, Social Security Disability
More disabled veterans returning from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Just a week after Memorial Day, here's a sobering statistic about veterans who are returning from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly half are applying for disability benefits for service-related injuries and illnesses -- more than for any previous wars, according to the Associated Press. "America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen. A staggering 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from ...
Read More | No CommentsA brain injury and suicide connection?
Yesterday's suicide of football great Junior Seau has experts one again questioning whether there is a link between link between brain injury or head trauma and mental illness and suicide. ABC News reports: Several former NFL players have committed suicide in recent years, and many experts believe the deaths could be related to repeated blows to the head. In addition to Dave Duerson, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Terry Long and Philadelphia Eagles defensive back Andre Waters took their own lives. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, ...
Read More | No Comments| Brain Injury, Catastrophic Injuries, Personal Injury
Catastrophic Brain Injuries on the Rise in High School Football
Researchers from UNC released findings recently that catastrophic brain injuries are on the rise for high school football players for the first time in more than 30 years. These are injuries that are serious enough to leave the players permanently disabled. Catastrophic brain injuries associated with full-contact football appear to be rising, especially among high school students, according to a new report. The increase is alarming and indicates more coaches and athletic trainers should change how they teach the fundamental skills of the game ...
Read More | One Comment| Brain Injury, House Bill 709/Senate Bill 544, Legislation, Workers' Compensation, Workers' Compensation Reform
Virginia brain injury workers’ comp loophole not closed after all
Last year, as we were fighting against the bad workers' compensation bill before the N.C. legislature, we shared with you the story of Mike Gentry, a Virginia satellite installer who suffered a brain injury after falling from a roof. Two days after Gentry awoke from a coma, an insurance adjuster asked him if he remembered the fall. He said no; at that point, he couldn’t remember anything. And that’s all the insurance company, Zurich North America, needed to deny Gentry’s claim. Gentry’s family fought a 21-month battle to receive wor ...
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