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Candice Klein, Panish Shea & Boyle, LLP and Laura Davidson, Akiva Niamehr, LLP

$3.75M Settlement: Animating Brain Injury After Swing Breaks from Swing Set

  • Animation
  • Medical
  • Legal
  • Personal Injury
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Case Study
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$3.75M Settlement: Animating Brain Injury After Swing Breaks from Swing Set

A Kindergarten student swinging from a school playground swing set suffered life-altering brain injuries after the “S hook” at the top of the swing broke and she fell a considerable distance, hitting her head on the ground. The impact caused a mechanism of injury known as a coup-contrecoup, which rendered her unconscious for several seconds after the fall.

Challenge

A coup-contrecoup occurs when the brain sustains trauma to both the site of impact (coup) and the opposite side of impact (contrecoup) as it recoils back and collides with the inner skull. This mechanism of injury causes sheering throughout the entire brain beyond just the initial impact.

Candice Klein, Esq., and Laura Davidson, Esq., had CT scans and MRI’s that showed mild TBI, but the radiographic films didn’t reveal the full scope of her damages. Animation would be crucial to making jurors understand the brutal significance of the coup-contrecoup brain injury her client sustained, and how it caused further long-term damage that would disrupt her everyday life.

Approach

The Plaintiff attorneys tasked our team with building a medical animation that would show what a coup-contrecoup injury looks like and establish how it caused substantial damage to her client. The following traumatic brain injury presentation helped Ms. Klein simplify the complexities related to her case so she could focus on negotiating a $3.75M settlement for her client.

 
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Animation demonstrating what a coup-contrecoup injury looks like.

Result

​The medical animation opens with the young girl’s head hitting the ground. The brain first collides with the impact site in the skull (coup), bounces back, and then impacts the opposite side of the skull (contrecoup). The victim’s facial fractures are then introduced, which included a fractured sphenoid bone and right orbital fracture.

The animation reiterates what happened with a 2D animated coup-contrecoup, highlighting the impacts to both sides of the brain. It then demonstrates how this mechanism of injury disrupts the brain cells through diffuse axonal shearing throughout the brain.

After establishing the cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and physical problems this mechanism of injury will ultimately cause, the animation concludes with colorized CT scans and MRI’s highlighting the damaged areas throughout the victim’s brain.

Candice Klein – Panish Shea & Boyle

“It was a mild TBI and the MRI did not reveal much so the animation was crucial to explain the injury.”

Candice Klein – Panish Shea & Boyle

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