Brian Beecher

Brian G. Beecher is a partner and Litigation Department Chair for personal injury and class action practice at Arash Law, led by Arash Khorsandi, Esq., serving clients in key California cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. Mr. Beecher has extensive experience handling complex personal injury cases. Mr. Beecher handles all manner of severe injury cases and focuses on traumatic brain injuries because, in part, Mr. Beecher comes from a family of doctors — his brother is a nationally recognized neurosurgeon on the East Coast. Insurance companies may be cautious in handling brain injury claims because these types of injuries are difficult to diagnose in the emergency room. Peer-reviewed medical literature reports that many people who suffer brain damage, and especially people who suffer a mild traumatic brain injury, will not be able to recognize their injury during the first few days, weeks, and even months after the injury-causing incident. Furthermore, mild traumatic brain injuries cannot be diagnosed through CT scans or MRIs and can only be seen through the use of diffusion tensor imaging of the brain (called a “DTI”). Insurance companies often try to use the gap in time from injury to diagnosis of brain damage and the lack of a CT scan or MRI evidence to argue that there is no brain injury. Mr. Beecher understands how insurance companies settle claims and has experience with both the legal and medical sides of brain injuries. This enables him to challenge the opinions of defense medical experts that insurance companies employ to counter the victims’ claims. Mr. Beecher also understands how to use objective evidence (e.g., highly reliable diagnostic tests, such as DT MRIs, Videonystagmography/VNG, and PET scans) to demonstrate the extent of a brain injury. Mr. Beecher also understands that brain injuries impact every aspect of a person’s life. Even mild traumatic brain injuries can (and many often do) cause severe changes to a person’s behavior, emotions, cognitive abilities, memory, balance systems, ability to smell and taste, hearing, attention, speech, and more. Mr. Beecher works diligently to counter insurance company arguments and challenge defense medical opinions so that his clients may have a chance at receiving a verdict or settlement that will support their recovery and address their medical and financial needs.