Winning The TBI Case

Defense experts often rely on a familiar set of arguments in traumatic brain injury cases. The challenge for plaintiff lawyers is knowing how to identify those themes and effectively challenge them. Welcome to Winning The TBI Case, hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigatio...

“GCS is not looking at long-term outcomes. It’s looking at that little slice in time right after the injury happened in the acute phase.” – Tom Crosley Welcome to Winning The TBI Case, hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys who are ready to...

“What I’m looking for is: What is the correct diagnosis? What happened to this patient? Is he or she being treated correctly or properly? And that’s a concern of mine.” – Dr. David Levey Welcome to Winning The TBI Case, hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant f...

“ The TBI alters the organic chemistry, the physical structure of the brain to the point where our personalities then get altered. Our spirit knows who we are. But you can’t get that person back… and I think jurors get that.” – Scott Blair Welcome to Winning The TBI Case, hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating...

“The better you understand the definitions of mild TBI, the better equipped you are to read the records, evaluate the experts, and keep your case grounded in sound medicine.” – Tom Crosley Welcome to Winning The TBI Case, hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigat...

“Every test you take today is going to tap into how a different part of your brain is working. Some tests will have more emphasis on different lobes of your brain than others. We’re going to be evaluating your memory, your attention, and your concentration ability.” – Dr. Janyna Mercado Welcome to Winning The TBI Case, hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides pr...

“Individuals will walk into a courtroom or walk into our offices and they look like you and I. They don’t look like brain injury victims.” – Dr. Janyna Mercado Welcome to Winning The TBI Case, hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys who are r...

“DTI helps turn the invisible injury into something you can see and quantify, and more importantly, something your jury can see. ” – Tom Crosley Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys who are ready to explore the es...

“Jurors don’t decide cases on the facts… They decide the case based the emotional content and whether they can connect with our client’s story.” – John Sloan Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation...

Introduction of Winning The TBI Case: Strategy, Science, and Storytelling Imagine standing in a courtroom, representing someone whose life has been forever changed by an injury no one can see. No broken bones visible on X-rays. No scars to photograph. Just a person who looks perfectly normal on the outside, but whose brain and the very essence of who they are, has been fundamentally altered. This...

“I said, this is really interesting stuff. It’s not just broken bones or a sprain of a neck. This is something really, really fundamentally interesting, and it would require a lot of hard work, which I was prepared to do as a young lawyer.” – Stewart Casper Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provides practical, powerful gui...

“ Half of these guys are still calling it post-concussion syndrome and think you still need a loss of consciousness to have a brain injury.” – Steven Gursten Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys wh...

“When you have multiple injuries, multiple problems, people’s problems go up by multiplication, not by addition.” – Steven Gursten Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys who are ready to explore the...

“Think of the brain like a city’s power grid. After a storm, most lights come back on quickly, but in some neighborhoods, the transformers are fried. The wiring’s damaged, the lights may never work the same again.” – Tom Crosley Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating tr...

“Defense experts aren’t here for the truth. They’re here for the paycheck. Show the jury that and you can overcome them.” – Tom Crosley Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys who are read...

“You do not put the plaintiff on the stand until the jury is primed to see their injury, not just in medical terms, but in human terms.” – Tom Crosley Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys who are ready t...

“Jurors may forget expert testimony… But they’ll never forget a story that moved them, especially a story from an independent witness that has nothing to gain. That is the power of a before-and-after witness.” – Tom Crosley Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumat...

“Have you ever played chess? You know how great chess players don’t just think about their next move? They think several moves ahead. Well, that’s exactly how we’re going to think about our expert witnesses, and in particular the defense expert witnesses.” – Tom Crosley Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provide...

“One of the biggest mistakes I see in TBI cases is attorneys telling the story in the wrong order.” – Tom Crosley Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen each week as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys who are ready to explore the essentials of TBI cases...

“  I think the absolute most important thing you can do as a lawyer to facilitate getting a fair number for your client is to speak from your heart with integrity and mean it.” – Keith Mitnik Welcome to Winning The TBI Case hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Join Tom each week as he provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litiga...

“People either step in and try them and don’t truly know the science and everything behind it, or they know the science in their sleep, but they don’t know how to track a case with it. And it takes both to do them right.” Keith Mitnik Strategic Insights from Renowned Trial Lawyer In this episode, Tom sits down with renowned Florida trial lawyer Keith Mitnik, who has tried h...

“Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) trials are some of the most complex and contentious litigation scenarios that you can encounter as a trial lawyer. Unlike visible injuries such as broken limbs, deep cuts, amputations, brain injuries they often leave no outward signs. They create skepticism among jurors and in particular defense attorneys. Addressing this invisible nature of the injury requires...

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) cases present unique challenges that can leave even seasoned trial lawyers feeling as though they’re navigating uncharted territory. While your client’s injury is undeniably real, effectively proving it in court requires specialized knowledge, strategic precision, and compelling storytelling. Welcome to  Winning The TBI Case , a podcast dedicated to trial la...