Some personal injury cases are challenging not only because of the severity of the injuries, but because of the fight required to prove what happened.
In this video, Gabriel Levin shares one of the most difficult cases he ever handled—a rollover accident case involving a client who suffered a traumatic brain injury and faced intense challenges from the defense.
The case required more than medical evidence. It required showing how the injury changed a person's life.
👉 What You'll Learn:
How a serious rollover accident caused a traumatic brain injury
Why some brain injuries can be difficult to prove
How the defense challenged the client's symptoms
The importance of family and workplace testimony
How evidence can demonstrate changes after an accident
Why telling the client's story matters in a personal injury case
🚗 The Accident and Injury:
The case involved a driver who ran a stop sign and struck the client's SUV at a high speed, causing the vehicle to roll over multiple times.
The client was left unconscious after the crash and later experienced lasting symptoms associated with a traumatic brain injury, including post-concussion syndrome and significant changes in her daily life.
⚖️ Fighting to Prove the Real Impact:
The defense argued that the client's symptoms were caused by pre-existing mental health conditions rather than the accident.
To challenge that argument, the legal team presented evidence showing the dramatic difference between the client's life before and after the crash, including:
Family testimony describing changes in her behavior and ability to care for her children
Co-worker testimony showing how her abilities changed after the accident
Medical evidence showing that her medication remained consistent before and after the crash
This evidence helped demonstrate that the accident—not a previous condition—was the turning point that changed her life.
🧠 Why Personal Stories Matter in Injury Cases:
Serious injuries are not always visible. A person may look the same after an accident while struggling with major changes in memory, concentration, behavior, and everyday abilities.
Showing the human impact of an injury can be critical when seeking justice and fair compensation.
🏆 A Meaningful Outcome:
After hearing the evidence, the factfinder rejected the defense's arguments and recognized the significant losses caused by the injury.
For Gabriel Levin, this case was especially rewarding because it showed the importance of standing by clients when their injuries are questioned and challenged.
💼 About The Levin Firm:
The Levin Firm represents injury victims throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey in cases involving traumatic brain injuries, car accidents, catastrophic injuries, and other serious personal injury matters.
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⚠️ Disclaimer:
This video discusses a legal case for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee future outcomes.
Transcript
I remember I had a case of a woman who suffered a pretty traumatic brain injury. She was involved in a rollover accident. The defendant blew a stop sign and T-boned my client's SUV at a high rate of speed and caused it to roll over several times, and it ended up upside down, and my client was left unconscious. And what made this case particularly hard was that she She had a long history of mental health issues. She had been diagnosed with depression and anxiety, was on a laundry list of medications before this accident ever happened.
After the accident, she suffered something called post-concussion syndrome. Normally, after a concussion or a strike to your head, what'll happen is you'll see a very quick drop In neurological capacity, and then a quick spike back up. What happens in post-concussion syndrome, you'll see a drop and then it'll kind of stay there, and it might slowly trickle up, but you can stay at those concussion levels for years. My client was experiencing all of these terrible post-concussion problems, but Many of them commingled with the symptoms associated with her preexisting mental health issues. The defense was basically arguing that all of the things that we're seeing after this accident are things that we saw before the accident.
The way that we got around that— first, I brought in family members, and they were able to describe Dramatic differences in their mother before and after this accident. She was forgetting to change diapers. She was putting on onesies backwards on these babies. She was doing all sorts of things that before the accident just never occurred. And then I brought in coworkers who kind of talked about how great she was at being a nurse before this accident, and now she couldn't even remember to take her own medication.
She couldn't read a form. She could write a full paragraph without losing her train of thought. But one of the main opinions that the defense had was that her medication was what was actually causing all of these symptoms. Look at her medications before the accident. Look at her medications after the accident.
The medication lists are identical. The thing that separates her symptoms The only difference between her pre- and post-accident is the accident. Nothing else changed. The fact-finder agreed with us and awarded her a very large sum of money for the accident. And I found the case particularly rewarding because the defense was so insistent that she was a malingerer and a liar.