Question:
what happens in the legal professon is not that different to what happens in many work areas, it is just the legal profession has become extraordinarily powerful and knows very well how to exploit that power. Why do you think so many head to parliament? One should not be surprised by that. As Camus once wrote: "The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but the prolonged fight to the death for the prizes of absolute power and universal prestige."

Wife with head injury? Is that you? How have things worked out?

Answer: If you are having trouble regarding establishing brain damage, let me know, I might be able to dig up some references that indicate the usual imaging methods are very poor at picking up these sorts of injuries, particularly axonal blebbing and DAI. One comes to mind immediately, it involved people who had sustained head injury but without loss of consciousness. The usual imaging shows nothing but SPET revealed half had evidence of altered cerebral blood flow, a very common finding post TBI. This is a special type of imaging rarely used in hospitals but it is validated. However, recently there a hand held device has been designed to detect brain damage immediately after head injury, I think it measures some brain wave patterns. "Brainscope": on the news in the last few days. That raises the question: has your wife had a EEG? A common finding post head injury is a change to p300 latencies(I think that is the acronym). Your wife should undergo an EEG, given the symptoms you previously described I suspect something will come up.

You should also know that "malingering" was a frequent professional claim with regard to mild brain injury. These days no self respecting neuropsych would run that argument without conducting a complete workup. They may throw this at you so get ready. There are too many s and assholes in this world, never presume truth is their friend. Money is. As you are probably aware Colin, insurance will typically deny liability in the first instance.