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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when a sudden trauma to the head causes damage to the brain. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), there are approximately 1.5 million TBI incidents reported each year.

TBI can be as simple as a minor blow to the head or a concussion, or it can be as serious as a fracture to the skull. Trauma to the head can also cause the brain to bleed or bruise, with no outward appearance of injury at all.

Motor vehicle accidents are the most common cause of TBI; other causes are falls, violence, sports-related incidents, and child abuse. The milder types of TBI can manifest themselves in the form of dizziness and headaches, and more serious injuries to the brain may include symptoms of vomiting, convulsions, slurred speech, loss of coordination, and numbness in the extremities.

People who have suffered a TBI often continue to work, and now there are many ways employees with TBI can be accommodated in the workplace. The Job Accommodation Network, which is a service of the U.S. Department of Labor, has composed a fact sheet entitled, “Employees with Brain Injuries,” describing a variety of ways employees with TBI can be accommodated in the workplace.

Better lighting, vision aids for the computers, and large print materials are just some examples of how TBI sufferers with vision problems can be accommodated. Reducing the number of distractions and the amount of clutter in their work area can aid in concentration, and tape recording meetings can certainly help with memory.

If you or a loved one has suffered a traumatic brain injury or some other personal injury in Orlando or anywhere in Florida, please contact the experienced personal injury attorneys Best & Anderson, Attorneys at Law today to schedule your free initial consultation.

Motorcycle helmet laws are highly political and hot topics of debate throughout the United States. The federal government is unable to set a national helmet policy because constitutionally-speaking, helmet law is under the jurisdiction of individual states.

However, the federal government has attempted to influence state policy in the past by creating the Highway Safety Act of 1966, which authorized the Department of Transportation to withhold portions of federal highway road construction funds from any states that did not enact motorcycle helmet laws for all riders. This Act prompted 38 states to enact a helmet law by the end of the following year, and by 1995, 47 of 50 states had a law requiring all riders to wear helmets.

However, that same year, Congress withdrew the federal requirement, and three years later, half of the states with helmet laws repealed those statutes. And, since that time, many states have modified the law to only requiring minors to wear helmets while on motorcycles. Currently, 20 states and the District of Columbia require all riders to wear helmets; 27 states have limited helmet laws; and only 3 states have absolutely no regulation on helmet use.

Though there are passionate activists on both sides of the helmet issue, most people can clearly see that helmets contribute to the surprisingly low numbers of motorcycle injuries and fatalities along our nation's highways.

If you or a loved one has been injured in a motorcycle accident in Orlando or anywhere in Florida, please contact the Motorcycle Accident Attorneys at Best & Anderson today to schedule your free initial consultation.