Seek Compensation for Your Changing Care Needs
A Dallas traumatic brain injury attorney should connect the event, clinical evidence and specific changes in daily life. A scan, specialist assessment and family observations answer different questions. Genthe develops that complete record before evaluating an offer for continuing care and work losses.
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Your Attorney
The lawyer who works your case
Meet Aaron Genthe, founder of Genthe Law Firm, who represents injured people in Dallas and throughout Texas.
Founder · Trial Attorney
Aaron Genthe
A Texas A&M graduate who went into personal injury straight out of law school, Aaron spent years as a litigator at one of the larger firms in Dallas — long enough to build a reputation as an aggressive and effective attorney, and long enough to watch how easily a client becomes a file number at a firm that size.
He started Genthe Law Firm so that the person you speak to about your injury is the person who tries it. On a brain injury that is not a nicety: the case is won or lost on whether somebody sat with you and your family long enough to understand what is actually different, and that is not a thing an intake script finds out.
- Practicing since
- 2015
- Education
- Texas A&M graduate
- Fee
- Contingency — nothing unless you recover
Representation built around your case
Get Lawyers Who Fight for Your Future
A Dallas traumatic brain injury attorney should connect medical findings and observed changes in daily life with the event that caused the harm.
01 · Individual case strategy
Your Changing Needs Shape Your Injury Claim
Memory, concentration and work changes may not fit an early settlement worksheet.
We develop the medical timeline and concrete effects on daily function alongside the accident evidence. The assessment is specific to your documented needs and losses. It is not driven toward a quick payout simply because the first records do not capture every continuing difficulty.
02 · Attorney-led representation
Get Personal Attention Throughout Your Recovery
You should be able to discuss changes that affect important claim decisions.
Your lawyer evaluates the evidence and explains how treatment, restrictions and observations relate to the legal case. Paralegals assist with organizing the records while the attorney leads strategy and settlement advice. That keeps the claim connected to the recovery information available at each stage.
Meet the Genthe team
03 · Trial-ready advocacy
We Prepare for Trial Against Low Offers
The case should explain both the mechanism and the lasting effects.
Genthe prepares the accident proof and documented functional losses for negotiation and potential trial. Readiness to litigate helps us press a supported valuation when an insurer minimizes difficulties that are better explained through a careful medical and daily-life chronology.
We develop clinical findings, concrete observations and support needs into an individual claim prepared for insurer disputes or trial. A family member can assist with the free review, and written fee terms precede representation.
Where It Starts
Brain Injury Claims With a Normal CT
A normal scan does not rule out every concussion or traumatic brain injury. A clinician must evaluate the symptoms and examination; neither a clear image nor a symptom list alone decides the legal claim.
You were discharged with a leaflet and a sentence you have repeated to everybody since: the scan was normal. And then the headaches did not stop, the words started going missing, and a supermarket became something you have to recover from.
FDA explains that imaging cannot detect every TBI. CT and MRI can identify important structural findings, while mild TBI assessment can also involve the clinical history, examination and cognitive testing. Persistent symptoms need medical evaluation; this page cannot identify their cause.
The claim therefore needs more than a single image: the clinical assessment, incident evidence, treatment course and reliable before-and-after information about work and daily function. The evidence must connect the alleged injury and losses to the event rather than assume that every symptom proves a brain injury.
Nobody disbelieves a broken femur. On this injury the first job is getting somebody believed, and you do that with testing and with the people who knew them before — not by insisting.
Aaron Genthe · Founder
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We prove it with testing, not with the scan
When clinically appropriate, neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing can help assess memory, attention and other functions. The treating professional decides the appropriate assessment. No single test guarantees a diagnosis or proves an injury claim.
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We go and find who you were before
Performance reviews, transcripts, training records, the colleague who sat beside you. A brain injury case is a comparison, and the defense is never going to collect the “before” half of it for you.
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We answer the malingering case before it is made
A reliable chronology includes symptoms, clinical findings, treatment, pre-existing conditions and reasons for any gaps in care. Testing and professional interpretation can help assess inconsistencies; a legal claim should not depend on coaching a particular result.
Severity
Brain Injury Types and Lasting Effects
The label was applied in the emergency department before anybody knew how this would go. It classifies how you presented, not what you are left with, and most of the hardest cases on this page start with it.
“Mild” describes the first hour, not the rest of your life
The classification is made in the emergency department, from the Glasgow Coma Scale, whether you lost consciousness and for how long, and how much of the event you cannot remember.
Moderate and severe injury
Traditional Glasgow Coma Scale ranges include 9–12 for moderate injury and 3–8 for severe injury. Clinicians use additional findings, imaging and the course of symptoms; the score alone does not predict the person’s eventual needs.
Concussion and post-concussion syndrome
A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury. Most people recover within weeks; a substantial minority do not, and where the headaches, fog, light sensitivity, irritability and sleep disruption persist well beyond the expected window it is generally called post-concussion syndrome.
Contusion, hemorrhage and hematoma
Bruising and bleeding, focal rather than diffuse: subdural, epidural, subarachnoid, intracerebral. Imaging can reveal these structural injuries. The particular location, clinical findings and course determine the medical assessment and supported losses.
Diffuse axonal injury
Widespread shearing of the nerve fibers, caused by rotational force rather than by impact. It is the mechanism behind the worst outcomes in high-speed crashes, and it is also the one with the least to show for itself on ordinary imaging.
Anoxic and hypoxic brain injury
A separate category of acquired brain injury can involve lack of oxygen rather than trauma: near-drowning, cardiac arrest, choking, a crush injury, carbon monoxide, anesthetic and obstetric emergencies.
Where They Come From
The eight ways we are called about most
The mechanism decides what evidence exists, who the defendant is and, on public ground, how long you have.
- 01Car and highway crashesThe commonest source by a distance. A head that never touched anything still traveled and stopped, and the airbag that saved your life hit you at speed to do it.
- 0218-wheelers and commercial vehiclesThe mass difference does the damage. These also carry a second problem worth knowing about: commercial records can have federal minimum retention periods, making prompt preservation important.
- 03Motorcycle crashesA helmet can reduce serious head-injury risk but cannot prevent every brain injury. An intact helmet does not decide the clinical assessment.
- 04Bicycle collisionsSame mechanism, less protection, and a driver whose first account of it was given while the cyclist was unconscious on the road.
- 05Struck as a pedestrianTwo impacts as a rule — the vehicle, then the ground — and the second one is frequently the one that injures the brain.
- 06Falls on someone else’s propertyThe leading cause of brain injury in older adults, and the one most often written off on the day as embarrassment. A quiet head strike on a hard floor is a serious mechanism.
- 07Construction and industrial sitesFalls from height, falling objects, struck-by and caught-between. Often a workers’ compensation claim and a claim against somebody who was not your employer.
- 08Children — daycare, school and sportA developing brain injured before it has finished growing, where what was lost only becomes visible years later, as the schoolwork that never arrives.
The six things that matter now
CDC danger signs include a worsening headache, repeated vomiting, seizures, weakness and difficulty waking. Seek immediate emergency care for danger signs. Symptoms can appear later; clinical assessment takes priority over a claim.
Get care and keep instructions
Tell the clinician how the head was struck or moved and what changed, even without a blackout. Keep emergency, follow-up, referral and discharge records and relevant prior history. Discuss persistent or worsening symptoms and appropriate specialist follow-up with the treating professional. Do not wait for a legal review or an arbitrary two-week period for needed care.
Keep short, dated examples
Record symptoms and a specific task that changed: attention, sleep, memory, stamina, an errand stopped or help needed. Note when it happened, who observed it and recovery time. Keep work or school accommodations, missed work, expenses and assistance records. Label memory gaps and separate direct observations from diagnosis.
Let someone help with your permission
A partner, parent or friend may help organize appointments, hear instructions and describe before-and-after changes. Identify who saw each change rather than blending accounts. Practical help does not itself give legal decision-making authority. Ask how a relative can assist while respecting the injured person’s decisions.
Preserve the event and claim papers
Save incident records, existing vehicle or helmet photographs, witnesses and available video before repair, disposal or overwriting changes them. Keep offers and requests for recorded statements or broad medical authorizations for review, and use care with social posts. Track gaps in care accurately instead of inventing explanations.
Questions for your consultation
Ask which records explain daily effects, how ongoing care and work restrictions affect valuation, and what authority a helper needs. A few accurate examples can start a review. You do not need a complete prognosis or polished journal; specialist opinions may support future needs, while a label or online multiplier does not set value.
Four Clocks, and Everybody Has Heard of One
The claim and defendant determine the deadlines. These are separate requirements, not one universal timeline.
| Situation | Rule to review |
|---|---|
| Ordinary injury | CPRC §16.003 generally gives two years. Section 16.001 may toll limitations for minority or qualifying legal disability; parent claims can differ. |
| Government property or conduct | An immunity waiver must apply. Section 101.101 generally requires notice within six months, sometimes earlier under a city charter. Identify the city, county, state, district or transit entity. |
| Health-care liability | Chapter 74 is separate: §74.051 generally requires 60 days’ presuit notice; §74.351 generally requires an expert report within 120 days of each defendant’s original answer. Section 74.251 addresses limitations and repose; §74.301 addresses damages limits. Exceptions, extensions, procedural rulings and constitutional issues need individual review. |
| Before-injury evidence | There is no single legal retention deadline for the record of who you were before injury. Preserve school, work and witness information promptly. |
Who can act for an injured person?
A child or adult lacking capacity may need a next friend or guardian. Settlements generally require court approval, sometimes with a guardian ad litem reviewing the injured person’s interests. Practical help from a relative is different from legal authority.
Comparative responsibility
Under the applicable Texas responsibility rules, an assigned share reduces recovery and more than 50% can bar it. Ask counsel to calculate the dates and assess the particular claim.
Case Value
What your claim can actually include
“What is it worth?” is the first question on nearly every call, and on this injury no honest answer comes before it is clear what you are left with.
Economic losses
The half of the claim proved with paper and with expert projection. On a serious brain injury this column is usually the larger of the two, and almost all of it is in the future rather than the past.
Medical treatment already had
Ambulance, emergency department, imaging, admission, surgery, neurology, neuropsychology, and the therapies — cognitive, speech, occupational, vestibular — that follow.
The life care plan
What the next forty years costs, costed: therapy, medication, case management, equipment, supervision, respite and the replacement cycle on all of it. Built by a life care planner, priced by an economist, and the largest single number in a severe case.
Lost earning capacity
Not the wages missed so far, but the difference between the working life you were on course for and the one now available to you. In a young client with a brain injury this routinely dwarfs the medical bills.
Attendant care and household services
Supervision, personal care, and the driving, cooking, bookkeeping and childcare that somebody now has to be paid to do — including where the person doing it unpaid is a spouse who gave up their own job.
Home, vehicle and technology
Ramps, bathroom modification, a vehicle that can be transferred into, and the assistive and reminder technology that keeps somebody living semi-independently.
Non-economic losses
The half no invoice arrives for, and on this injury the half that is hardest to convey and easiest to undervalue. It is proved by the people who live with the person, not by the person.
Physical pain and suffering
Headache, vertigo, nausea, photophobia and the procedures gone through, over the years they actually run rather than the weeks an adjuster budgets for.
Mental anguish
Frustration, fear, grief for the self that is gone, and the anxiety of not trusting your own memory. Frequently the dominant complaint in a mild injury.
Physical impairment
What is now out of reach: driving, working, reading a book, following a film, managing a household, being left alone with your own children.
Disfigurement
Scarring, craniotomy defects and hardware, valued separately from the surgery that caused or repaired them.
Loss of consortium
A claim belonging to the spouse for what the injury took out of the marriage — and, where a parent is seriously and permanently injured, Texas also recognizes a claim by their children.
The Process
What happens when you call us
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Free case review
You call or message. We ask how it happened, what your head did, what you have been told since, and what has changed at home and at work.
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We get you in front of the right people
Neurology, neuropsychology, vestibular and cognitive therapy may be relevant when the treating professionals recommend them. Where available, a provider payment arrangement such as a letter of protection may be discussed; access, terms and repayment obligations must be confirmed.
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We build the before and the after
The records, the testing, the employment and school history, and statements from the people who knew you first. This is the part that answers the normal-scan defense, and it cannot be done at the end.
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We value it properly and we negotiate
A life care plan and an economist where the injury is permanent, every policy identified including your own underinsured cover, and suit filed if the numbers will not move.
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You get paid, and it is explained twice
We go through the settlement line by line, including the liens and what we got reduced, and we do it with whoever helps you keep track of things. Nobody leaves here unclear about what just happened.
Across North Texas
Brain injury cases across Dallas–Fort Worth
In these cases the record built at North Texas hospitals is the backbone of the claim.
We represent people with concussions and traumatic brain injuries across Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties, including clients first treated at Parkland and the other trauma centers in North Texas, after car and truck crashes, falls, assaults and workplace accidents.
A brain injury case can usually be filed in the county where the injury happened. Our office is on Coit Road in North Dallas, and we meet clients wherever is easiest for them.
Related Guidance
Brain injury FAQs
Do I have a case if I never lost consciousness?
Loss of consciousness is not required for every concussion or TBI. A healthcare provider should evaluate the injury. A legal claim separately requires proof of a responsible party, causation and damages; remaining conscious does not decide those issues.
My CT scan was normal but I still feel wrong. Is there anything here?
A normal CT does not rule out every mild TBI, and persistent symptoms should be discussed with a healthcare provider. The FDA explains that imaging cannot detect all TBIs. Diagnosis, causation and the extent of a legal claim require the clinical record and incident evidence rather than an assumption from the scan alone.
How long do I have to bring a brain injury claim in Texas?
Two years from the date of the injury in most cases. But if a city, a county, the State, a school district or a transit authority is involved, formal written notice is required within six months and sometimes sooner.
What is a brain injury case worth?
Nobody honest gives you a number on the first call. The largest components — future care and lost earning capacity — cannot be valued until it is clear what you are left with, and that takes months of treatment to establish.
A diagnosis or “mild” label does not set a settlement amount. Review the supported injury, future needs, responsibility and available recovery rather than an online multiplier.
The insurance company says the crash was too minor to injure my brain.
Vehicle photographs are one part of the evidence and cannot alone diagnose or exclude a person’s brain injury. The collision circumstances, clinical findings, symptoms and expert assessment may all matter. The attorney must connect the claimed injury to the event rather than infer it solely from damage or the absence of visible damage.
Do you handle brain injury cases outside Dallas?
Yes. We are based in North Dallas and handle brain injury cases across Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties, including Plano, Frisco, Richardson, Garland, Irving, Arlington and Fort Worth, and elsewhere in Texas when we can help.
How can relatives help document changes?
Keep dated descriptions of specific observations, such as missed appointments or difficulty with a familiar task. Avoid diagnosing the condition or exaggerating; the clinician and appropriate experts interpret medical significance.
What if concussion symptoms become apparent after I leave the scene?
The CDC explains that some symptoms appear hours or days later. Seek professional medical advice about symptoms and urgent care for danger signs; record the timing without diagnosing yourself from a legal checklist.
Can a normal-looking photograph show that no brain injury occurred?
No. Appearance is not a medical assessment. Preserve treatment and clinical findings with observations of changes in function; the legal file should not treat a scene photograph as proof of the presence or absence of TBI.
What should a Dallas family record about changes in concentration?
Use specific dated examples, such as difficulty following a familiar task or managing an appointment. Distinguish direct observations from a diagnosis and bring relevant professional assessments to the review.
How can I organize treatment from several facilities?
Keep provider names, dates, instructions, referrals and available records in sequence. A continuous timeline helps distinguish the initial evaluation from later findings without assuming each facility documented the same symptoms.
Should someone help me prepare for a consultation if memory is affected?
A trusted person can help organize records and describe their own observations, with your participation as appropriate. Their account should remain separate from memories you personally have and from professional medical conclusions.
How do I document difficulty returning to a mentally demanding job?
Keep the actual tasks, accommodations, restrictions and changes in output or hours. A job title alone may not explain why concentration, processing or fatigue problems interfere with the work.
What if the insurer asks for a broad medical authorization?
Retain the entire form and identify who requested it and the records sought. Counsel can review scope and relevance rather than assuming every authorization is routine or every request can simply be ignored.
Can a symptom diary replace a neuropsychological or medical evaluation?
No. A factual diary can aid discussion and show timing, but it does not supply a clinical diagnosis or expert assessment. Keep it consistent with actual observations and professional instructions.
What does Genthe need when an early crash account is incomplete?
Explain the memory limits, source of later information and available independent evidence. A brain injury can complicate recollection; the investigation should acknowledge that issue rather than pressure you to fill the gaps.