Many different incidents can cause a brain injury to occur. Brain injuries frequently are the result of car accidents. An injury to the brain can come from environmental contaminants and sports traumas, from violence, falls and child abuse, not just from vehicle accidents. Once brain damage occurs it is often permanent, and therapy is required to help teach the victim new ways of coping with their disabilities. Therapy can be physical, cognitive, speech and psychological and if very expensive. Brain damage is often preventable. Negligence or carelessness causes these accidents to occur in which case there is a responsible party that should be the focus of the brain injury settlement for damages. Recovery from brain damage can be costly a there is the possibility of losing employment. A brain damage attorney will be able to identify these and other areas of financial loss that should be added to litigation for brain injury settlement. The attorney offers a free consultation to go over the facts of the case. A good attorney won't charge .Many attorneys will not charge on a brain injury case, they receive their fee only if they win the case. This is a contingency fee case and is how most personal injury cases are handled. Be sure to find out what their percentage fee is and what their win ratio is before signing any documents.