Brain Injuries: The Invisible Catastrophe
A traumatic brain injury can happen in an instant — a car crash, a fall, an explosion, a blow to the head. But the consequences unfold over months and years: persistent headaches, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, personality changes, depression, inability to work. Unlike a broken bone or a visible scar, brain injuries are often invisible to everyone except the person living with them.
That invisibility makes these cases some of the hardest to win — and some of the most important to fight. Insurance companies exploit the fact that TBIs don’t always show up on standard imaging. They minimize symptoms, question diagnoses, and push for low settlements that don’t come close to covering the lifetime costs of living with a brain injury.
At Jordan Law, our Denver brain injury lawyers have deep experience with these cases. We’ve taken TBI claims through trial and won multi-million dollar verdicts because we know how to prove what the insurance company doesn’t want to see: that your brain was injured, that your life has fundamentally changed, and that the person who caused it must be held accountable.
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Our Brain Injury Track Record
Results matter in brain injury cases — both because they demonstrate our ability to win and because insurance companies pay attention to which firms have actually taken TBI cases to verdict. Jordan Law’s brain injury results include:
These results reflect cases where insurance companies initially offered far less than what our clients deserved. In every case, our willingness to prepare for trial — and to actually go to trial when necessary — made the difference.
“It’s very important that you wind up with the right attorney — not just the attorney that advertises the most or has the most clicks on the Internet. You want to go with an attorney that has tried cases, because the insurance carriers know which law firms try cases, and you get better value on your case if you’re with a law firm that the insurance companies respect as true trial lawyers.”
Jason Jordan, Esq. – Founding Partner, Jordan Law
Types of Traumatic Brain Injuries We Handle
Brain injuries vary widely in severity and cause. Our Denver brain injury attorneys have experience with the full spectrum, including:
Concussions (Mild TBI)
Often called “mild” traumatic brain injuries, concussions are anything but trivial. Even a single concussion can cause weeks or months of headaches, cognitive fog, emotional instability, and difficulty working or attending school. Repeated concussions — common in car accidents where victims are involved in multiple impacts — can cause cumulative, lasting damage. Insurance companies frequently dismiss concussions as minor injuries, which is why experienced legal representation matters.
Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of a mild TBI is that it often goes undiagnosed entirely — and many attorneys miss it. The person sitting in front of you looks no different than anyone else, and may not fully recognize how much they’ve changed. But the people closest to them notice.
“The vast majority of brain injury cases that you see from motor vehicle accidents or otherwise are categorized as mild traumatic brain injury, sometimes moderate. That person sitting right there doesn’t look any different than the person sitting over here. A person with a mild traumatic brain injury oftentimes doesn’t notice the significance of the changes that they’re going through. They may notice some, but a husband or a wife is going to notice it far quicker and many more of those changes than the injured person would.”
Jason Jordan, Esq. – Founding Partner, Jordan Law
This is exactly why choosing the right attorney matters in brain injury cases. Many firms settle what is actually a brain injury case as a routine soft tissue claim — because they never looked for the TBI in the first place.
“It’s unfortunate because a lot of these cases, they go undiagnosed. They continue moving through a case with a lawyer that’s not looking at that angle and sending that person to the right doctors to make sure they’re okay. And it winds up getting settled as a soft tissue chiropractic case when really there is a mild traumatic brain injury component that not only has value and should be compensated for, but also has never been treated. It’s never been diagnosed. Not seeing the right people to actually get the care that they need so that they can get better.”
Jason Jordan, Esq. – Founding Partner, Jordan Law
Moderate to Severe TBI
More severe brain injuries may involve prolonged loss of consciousness, skull fractures, brain bleeds (subdural or epidural hematomas), diffuse axonal injury, or contusions to the brain tissue. These injuries often require emergency surgery, extended hospitalization, and months or years of rehabilitation. Many survivors live with permanent cognitive, physical, or behavioral impairments that prevent them from returning to their prior level of function.
Penetrating Brain Injuries
When an object pierces the skull and enters brain tissue, the resulting injury is typically severe and may be life-threatening. These injuries are seen in high-speed vehicle collisions, construction accidents, and explosions, and almost always require emergency neurosurgical intervention.
Anoxic and Hypoxic Brain Injuries
When the brain is deprived of oxygen — during a near-drowning, a medical emergency, or a severe trauma that disrupts breathing — the resulting damage can be catastrophic and permanent. Even brief oxygen deprivation can cause irreversible harm to brain cells.
Second Impact Syndrome
When someone who hasn’t fully recovered from a concussion sustains a second head injury, the brain can swell rapidly and dangerously. This is particularly relevant in cases involving multiple vehicle impacts or situations where an initial injury was not properly diagnosed and the victim was cleared to return to normal activity too soon.
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Common Causes of Brain Injuries in Colorado
Brain injuries can result from virtually any type of accident, but certain causes are especially prevalent in Colorado:
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of TBI-related death for adults aged 20 to 24, and a primary cause across all age groups. The high-speed corridors along I-25, I-70, and I-225 in the Denver metro area see frequent severe collisions. Rear-end crashes, T-bone collisions, and rollover accidents all create the violent forces that cause brain injuries — even when the victim doesn’t strike their head directly, the rapid acceleration and deceleration can cause the brain to twist and tear inside the skull.
Truck accidents produce disproportionately severe brain injuries because of the massive forces involved. A fully loaded semi can weigh 80,000 pounds — and when it strikes a passenger vehicle, the occupants face enormous risk of TBI.
Motorcycle and bicycle accidents leave riders especially vulnerable to head injuries, even with helmets. The lack of structural protection around a rider means that any collision can result in direct head impact with the road, a vehicle, or roadside objects.
Premises liability incidents — including slip-and-fall accidents, falling objects, and unsafe conditions on commercial or residential property — account for a significant share of TBI hospitalizations, particularly among older adults.
Ski and recreation accidents are especially relevant in Colorado. Mountain communities see elevated rates of traumatic brain injuries from skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, and other high-speed outdoor activities.
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How We Build a Brain Injury Case
Brain injury cases demand a different level of preparation than a typical car accident claim. The injury is complex, the medical evidence is specialized, and the lifetime costs can be enormous. Here’s how our team approaches these cases:
Comprehensive Medical Documentation
We work with neurologists, neuropsychologists, neuroradiologists, and rehabilitation specialists to fully document the nature and extent of your brain injury. This includes advanced imaging (MRI, CT, fMRI, DTI), neuropsychological testing to measure cognitive deficits, and detailed clinical evaluations. We ensure that every symptom — memory problems, mood changes, executive function deficits, sleep disturbances, headaches — is documented and connected to the accident.
“Cases start at a zero value. Just because you’re in a crash doesn’t mean you get anything. Building up your case is how we help you recover compensation for what you’ve been through. Let’s make sure this person gets the medical care they need. Let’s make sure that they’re taken care of on the medical side, but on the pain and suffering side. Did they have to take care of a family member and weren’t able to do that because of these injuries? Well, that’s a really meaningful emotional element. We need to build up that story to show, to be able to demonstrate what it’s worth.”
Sarah Freedman, Esq. – Director of Pre-litigation, Jordan Law
Life Care Planning
Moderate and severe brain injuries often require a lifetime of care — ongoing therapy, medications, assistive devices, home modifications, and potentially full-time assistance. We retain life care planners who project these future costs with precision, ensuring that any settlement or verdict accounts for the full scope of your needs, not just your current medical bills.
Economic Loss Analysis
Brain injuries frequently end careers or significantly diminish earning capacity. We work with vocational rehabilitation experts and forensic economists to calculate what you would have earned over your working lifetime versus what you’re now able to earn. For young victims, these numbers can be in the millions.
Telling Your Story
The hardest part of a brain injury case is making the invisible visible. We gather testimony from your family, friends, coworkers, and treating physicians to paint a complete picture of who you were before the injury and how your life has changed. This human evidence is often what moves a jury — or an insurance company — to recognize the true value of your case.
“What I like to tell clients is the best thing they can do for their case: give us as much information as you can. Tell us how you’re feeling. Tell us how medical visits are going. Tell us what life is like at home because of your injuries. Tell us if you’re feeling foggy, you just seem a little off lately. We really want you to share that information with us because it helps us understand your story — it helps us tell the jury one day what you’ve been through.”
Michael Harris, Esq. – Litigation Attorney, Jordan Law
Working with brain injury clients also requires patience, empathy, and an understanding that the injury itself affects the attorney-client relationship. Memory problems, communication difficulties, and cognitive fatigue are part of the reality — and a firm that handles TBI cases needs to be equipped for that.
“Brain injury cases can be tricky for lawyers as well. I have a client right now with a severe traumatic brain injury. His short-term memory is really bad, but his long-term memory is pretty good. He doesn’t speak, but I’ll text with him. And I felt like a dummy — he’s such an inspiration, this young man. He makes me laugh all the time. But I had said, “Remember, we talked about this the other day.” And he wrote back, “Remember, I have a short-term loss” — and he put an emoji smiley face. And I was like, I’m sorry man. Let me type it out for you, put it in your notes file so you can always go back and look at it again. My client actually does not remember, and we’re having this conversation for the fifth time.”
Jason Jordan, Esq. – Founding Partner, Jordan Law
The Importance of Early Medical Treatment
One of the most critical factors in a brain injury case is getting proper medical evaluation and treatment as soon as possible after the accident. Delayed diagnosis gives insurance companies an opening to argue that your injury wasn’t caused by the accident or that it isn’t as serious as you claim.
“A treatment gap is exactly what it sounds like. It’s when you stop going to medical care or you never start, and it creates this time period where there’s no evidence of your injury. An insurance company is gonna use that against you later on to say maybe you weren’t really that injured. It also hurts you when you don’t get to recover faster.”
Sarah Freedman, Esq. – Director of Pre-litigation, Jordan Law
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Compensation for Brain Injury Victims in Colorado
The financial impact of a brain injury is staggering. The CDC has estimated that direct medical costs and indirect costs of TBI — including lost productivity — totaled $60 billion annually in the United States. For an individual, a severe brain injury can generate millions of dollars in lifetime costs.
Colorado is an at-fault state, which means the person or entity that caused your brain injury is responsible for your damages. Brain injury victims may recover compensation for:
Medical expenses — emergency treatment, hospitalization, brain surgery, neurological care, rehabilitation, cognitive therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, prescription medications, and all future medical care related to the TBI.
Lost wages and earning capacity — income lost during recovery and, in severe cases, the permanent reduction in your ability to earn a living. For a young person with decades of working life ahead, this can be the largest single component of damages.
Pain and suffering — the physical pain, headaches, and discomfort caused by the injury and its treatment.
Cognitive and emotional impairment — memory loss, difficulty concentrating, personality changes, depression, anxiety, irritability, and the profound frustration of not being able to function as you did before.
Loss of enjoyment of life — the hobbies, activities, relationships, and daily pleasures that the injury has taken from you.
Future care costs — ongoing therapy, medications, assisted living, home modifications, and any other long-term needs documented by your life care plan.
Punitive damages — in cases where the at-fault party’s conduct was willful and wanton (such as drunk driving or extreme recklessness), Colorado courts may award additional punitive damages.
“You retain an attorney and that just takes all of that away. And we tell you what all those things mean — like collateral source and subrogation and common fund doctrine and ERISA plans as opposed to state funded plans and why that matters to you at the end of the day. We explain those things to you and then you go back to work and you live your life and you see your medical doctors. That’s what we’re here for.”
Jason Jordan, Esq. – Founding Partner, Jordan Law
Why Jordan Law for Your Brain Injury Case
Proven brain injury results. We’ve recovered over $130 million in brain injury verdicts alone — including $38.6M, $31.6M, $29.25M, $26.6M, and $20M verdicts. These aren’t just numbers on a website. They represent real people whose lives were changed by brain injuries and who received meaningful compensation because we were prepared to fight for them.
We understand TBI medicine. Brain injury cases require attorneys who can work effectively with neurologists, neuropsychologists, and neuroradiologists. We know the difference between a subdural hematoma and a diffuse axonal injury, why DTI imaging matters when standard MRIs are normal, and how to present neuropsychological testing results to a jury.
True trial lawyers. Insurance companies settle brain injury cases for their full value only when they believe the attorneys on the other side will take them to trial. Our trial record speaks for itself — and the insurance industry knows it.
Personalized, not volume. Brain injury cases require intensive, individualized attention. We limit our caseload so every client receives direct attorney involvement. You’re never handed off and forgotten.
“He was one of the toughest individuals I ever had the honor of representing, and he was just a sweet kid, and we loved him. I remember Jason and I quite literally didn’t say anything for minutes because what could you say other than just take it in, listen to his story, and then think how are we going to help him. He taught us a lot — his attitude and his outlook on life really shook us in the sense of, hey, be grateful for what you have and try not to worry about what you don’t have.”
Michael Harris, Esq.Litigation Attorney, Jordan Law
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