$575,000 Head Injury Settlement in Queens

A motor vehicle accident in Queens caused a head injury — the kind of injury that doesn't always show on a scan but fundamentally changes how a person thinks, focuses, and functions. Our client's life was altered by an impact that targeted the most complex organ in the body.

Head Injury From a Queens Motor Vehicle Accident

Our client was involved in a motor vehicle accident in Queens that caused a head injury requiring comprehensive medical evaluation and treatment. Head injuries from car accidents range from concussions to traumatic brain injuries, and even injuries classified as "mild" on initial assessment can produce symptoms that persist for months or years — headaches, cognitive fog, memory problems, difficulty concentrating, mood changes, and sensitivity to light and noise. These symptoms interfere with work, relationships, and the basic activities that define a person's daily life.

The treatment course for our client's head injury included emergency evaluation, neurological assessment, imaging studies, cognitive testing, and ongoing monitoring to track the trajectory of symptoms over time. Head injuries are fundamentally different from orthopedic injuries in how they are documented and proved — the damage is neurological, the symptoms are often subjective, and the defense frequently argues that the injury is less severe than the patient reports. Proving the full impact of a head injury requires specialized medical evidence and expert testimony.

Proving Head Injury Damages Against Insurance Carrier Resistance

Insurance carriers aggressively dispute the severity and duration of head injuries from motor vehicle accidents. Their standard approach is to point to imaging studies that appear normal and argue that the absence of visible structural damage means the injury is minor. This defense ignores the well-established medical reality that many significant head injuries — including post-concussive syndrome and diffuse axonal injuries — do not appear on conventional CT or MRI imaging.

Our attorneys retained neurological experts who administered specialized cognitive testing, documented the specific deficits our client experienced, and connected those deficits to the mechanism of injury in the car accident. We obtained pre-accident records establishing our client's cognitive and functional baseline, then documented the post-accident decline through neuropsychological testing, treating physician observations, and reports from family members and colleagues who witnessed the changes in our client's daily function. The comprehensive neurological presentation overcame the defense's attempt to minimize the head injury.

"Head injuries are invisible injuries — you can't see them on an X-ray the way you can see a broken bone. That makes them harder to prove, and insurance companies exploit that. They point to normal imaging and say the injury is minor. We proved it was not minor. Neurological testing, cognitive assessments, testimony from the people who see our client every day — all of it documented a person whose daily function was fundamentally changed by this accident." — Howard Raphaelson, Founding Partner

$575,000 Settlement for a Queens Head Injury

This $575,000 settlement covers neurological treatment, cognitive rehabilitation, ongoing monitoring, lost earning capacity, and the permanent cognitive limitations our client now manages. It reflects the reality that head injuries — even those that don't appear dramatic on initial imaging — can produce lasting deficits that affect every aspect of a person's life.

If you suffered a head injury in a car accident in Queens, our car accident attorneys have experience proving head injury and traumatic brain injury claims and are ready to review your case.