There are catastrophic cases in which victims cannot speak for themselves to the jury about the hardship, the pain and the suffering, that every day dysfunction entails.

Often, these are the most hurt of all the victims that a plaintiff’s lawyer might see. Babies with cerebral palsy and retardation, brain damaged adults, and quadriplegics fall into this category of unfortunates who need help in demonstrating what has happened to the quality of their lives. Videotape is the modern tool of choice for the creation of demonstrative evidence of the life-long suffering of these victims

An Article by Richard A. Gurfein - available in PDF form here.